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How to Boost Family Involvement through Parent-Teacher Conferences

Waterford

Before you know it, parent-teacher conferences are right around the corner. It’s easy to let the conference season catch us by surprise, but did you know that parent-teacher conferences are one of the best ways to boost parent engagement? Encouraging Parental Involvement Before Conference Season.

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Educational Technology Guy

24th, they say “how to use technology to differentiate instruction” (51 percent) and “how to use educational games in the classroom” (35 percent) are at the top of their wish list for professional development this year. Since 2003, more than 3.7 Today’s findings are about teachers. Among the 17,913 teachers who responded by Nov.

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4 Ways to Cultivate Motivation in Your Students

The CoolCatTeacher

How to Become a Master at Student Motivation From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. You can even coordinate volunteer schedules, donations, and parent-teacher conferences. How do we make our topic relevant without demotivating kids who struggle? You can share pictures and links.

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Insight works with education leaders on Microsoft Server security

eSchool News

Public Sector team will speak to the risks of failing to address the pending end of service for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. million instances of Windows Server 2003 were running on 11.9 The Insight Enterprises, Inc. million physical servers worldwide.

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The 9 Qualities of A Good Teacher

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

And since September 2003 the first time I stepped into a classroom as a teacher, a lot of things have changed in the field. Using video conferencing tools, teachers are now able to take part in global conferences, webinars, and workshops anywhere anytime. I often think that teaching has come to me and not the other way around.

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The Science Behind Spatial-Temporal Math

MIND Research Institute

Games have the potential to be perceived as an enjoyable and fun activity and, with that, might provide a preferred means to teach math (Bragg, 2003). Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia , 160–167. ST Math's educational content is conveyed in a game-like format.

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Students Today Are Learning All The Time. Can Schools Keep Up?

Edsurge

Last month at FETC , a K-12 edtech conference in Miami, Evans joined us on the EdSurge podcast to talk about the social and collaborative learning students in her survey say they want. We’ve been doing this polling since 2003, so we've got quite an arc in terms of seeing the changes that have happened. I hear it from teachers.

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