IXL is a great online resource for students that focuses on fluency in math and language arts skills. IXL allows students to work at their own pace while also giving them recommendations on what skills they need to work on based on their progress through different content areas. This tool will allow me to see where my students strengths and weaknesses are in certain content areas or in general. When I find out what skills my students will need to work on, I can implement targeted instruction through IXL.
Seesaw is a great online resource that allows families and teachers to stay connected with their students by seeing the variety of creative and different learning styles that are being utilized in the classroom. Seesaw will help me to increase students engagement in the classroom by allowing students to create and demonstrate their learning through pictures and drawings. Seesaw also allows me to assign work, give feedback, and use fun learning activities to help my students better learn.
Class Dojo is an online resource that helps teachers to manage their classrooms while encouraging postive behaviors towards their students and helping to better communicate with families. Class Dojo will allow me to share photos and videos to parents of their child's learning to help parents to feel more connected while also seeing their child's progress inside of the classroom. Class Dojo allows students to have a learning experience that they will enjoy.
EdPuzzle is a helpful resource for allowing students to stay interacted with what they are learning. EdPuzzle gives students informational videos that has pop up questions to help monitor students understanding of the content they are learning while also making them pay closer attention to details. EdPuzzle is a great tool in the classroom because it helps me to teach information to my students in different ways while allowing them to have a more interactive piece that helps to ensure their classroom participation.
This podcast is a great resource for teachers when looking for strategies, technology, and tips to for maintaining the classroom. The podcasts interviews educators, students, administrators, and any other person related to education where these people give tips on teaching! This is a great podcast if you are looking for ways to make your classroom learning enviornment more effective and fun.
This podcast is performed by Linda Kardamis where she gives teachers tips on how to tackle different challenges from a biblical perspective that you will come upon while teaching. Linda points out that our our spiritual walk and workplace can be interlinked instead of seperated. This podcast is great for helping to see how we can glorify God in our classrooms and how to make a positive impact on our students lives.