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1a: Demonstrating Knowledge of Content and Pedagogy
EDUTOPIA and its "Schools That Work" program profile K-12 schools, districts, and programs that are improving the ways in which students learn. The series focuses on evidence-based successes and uses how-to videos and tip lists to help develop educational leadership. The producers interview teachers, students, principals, and administrators, and these educators share their resources such as rubrics, lesson plans, assessments, and training tools.
THE TEACHING CHANNEL is a video showcase of inspiring and effective teaching practices shared by a community of registered members whose goals are to build professional learning resources that teachers, deepen and improve opportunities for teacher learning, and elevate/celebrate teachers in our society.
1b: Demonstrating Knowledge of Students
GOOGLE FORMS provide a format for creating surveys and polls that can be used gather student information and opinions. Responses are collected in corresponding Google Sheets that can in turn be used to analyze and sort data in a variety of ways. Examples:
Use mail merge tools like Autocrat to create files for each student.
STUDENT BLOGS: Blogging allows students to become creators - not just consumers - of information. This creative process gives us insight into student interests and abilities. Examples:
KIDBLOG allows teachers to moderate all activity within their classroom blogging community. Kidblog also has the added benefit of allowing audio submissions (great for music classes, reading fluency, etc.)
BLOGGER is a Google product which seamlessly integrates with other Google apps (UPDATE: Blogger is now for students 18+)
1c: Setting Instructional Outcomes
MASTERY CONNECT: Through MasteryTracker, teachers can effectively assess core standards, monitor student performance, and report student mastery to parents and administrators. Use multiple choice, rubrics, oral assessments, writing assessments or any curriculum or content type. Visualize student performance relative to the core with the traffic light approach of red, yellow, and green mastery status. Mix and match standard sets, create custom standards, and easily drag and drop standards into any sequence. Administer district-created or teacher-created benchmark assessments or utilize third-party item bank content. Convenient 'View Standards' links help teachers stay focused on teaching and assessing core standards. Integrated standards-based reports provide real-time information about mastery to students and parents. With focus on individual standards, teachers can easily identify which students are struggling to understand a concept. Use simple reports and the mastery tracker, identifying students for tiered RtI interventions.
COMMON CURRICULUM: Real time, collaborative lesson planning for teachers & schools.
1d: Demonstrating Knowledge of Resources
CONTENT CURATION TOOLS such as PINTEREST are virtual collections where users pin videos and images captured from around the web. The "pins" may be organized into categories and shared privately or publicly. Sample: PHS Tech Coach Pinterest Boards.
SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS are excellent tools for building a Personal/Professional Learning Network (PLN), a connection of people with whom a learner interacts, shares, and derives knowledge. For more information on building a PLN, visit: It's a PLN . Popular social media tools include:
KHAN ACADEMY features thousands of educational resources, including a personalized learning dashboard, over 100,000 practice problems, and over 6,000 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, healthcare, medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, cosmology, American civics, art history , economics, music, and computer science.
TEDEd's award-winning original lessons, represent collaborations between expert educators, screenwriters and animators . TED-Ed lesson can also be created by any website visitor, and involves adding questions, discussion topics and other supplementary materials to any educational video on YouTube.
SUBJECT SPECIFIC RESOURCES - MLH's collections for Art, Business, English/Language Arts, Family/Consumer Science, Health/Physical Education, Math, Music, Science, Social Studies, Special Education, Tech Ed/Engineering, World Languages
1e: Designing Coherent Instruction
LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (LMS) helps teacher save time, keep classes organized, and improve communication with students. An LMS allows teachers to provide flipped mini-lessons, differentiate instruction for varied interest and skill level, create and collect assignments paperlessly, enable asynchronous class discussions, and check for understanding via a variety of formative and summative assessment tools.
CANVAS (adopted LMS in the Pewaukee School District)
1f: Designing Student Assessments
GOOGLE FORMS QUIZZES are a great tool for providing formative checks for understanding. Forms may include visuals and videos along with a variety of questioning formats (multiple choice, true and false, matching, short answers, rating, and more). Examples:
KAHOOT!: Create and play quizzes, discussions or even surveys using any device with a web browser. Not just a clicker, Kahoot! allows learners to both respond AND create with any device. Formative assessment and adaptive teaching happens through our data providing educators with a ‘snapshot’ of each learner's current understanding AND longer term tracking of progress.
SOCRATIVE empowers you to engage and assess your students as learning happens. Through the use of real-time questioning, result aggregation, and visualization, you have instant insight into levels of understanding so you can use class time to better collaborate and grow as a community of learners.
QUIZZIZ is a fun multiplayer classroom activity, that allows all your students to practice together.
STUDENT PORTFOLIOS: A portfolio is a purposeful collection of student work that exhibits the student's efforts, progress, and achievements in one or more areas of the curriculum. Portfolio Tools may include:
Student blogs
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