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Cultivating Lifelong Learners: How to Support Personalized Teacher Growth

A Principal's Reflections

Allow teachers to choose formats and topics that resonate with their individual learning preferences and goals (Desimone, 2009). Leverage Technology for Flexibility Technology can be a powerful tool for personalized learning. Online courses and learning modules allow educators to access content at their own pace and on their own schedules.

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Learning and Reflecting with Video

A Principal's Reflections

I remember like it was yesterday when I began blogging back in 2009. In my quest to practice what I preach and grow, I have begun to utilize video as a means to articulate ideas, share my learning, and openly reflect. When you think about the potential video has to articulate a message, it makes sense to harness its power.

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Taking Learners Deeper with Reflection

A Principal's Reflections

Naturally, there is a tendency to include this at the end in the form of closure using the following prompts that can be answered using text, video, or audio: What did you learn of value today? Without this support, reflections may be limited to descriptive accounts of an experience or “venting of feelings” (Ash & Clayton, 2009).

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Savvy #ISTE17 Interviews: Video Edchats Through FlipGrid

Teacher Reboot Camp

Back in August of 2009 I created and organized #Edchat in a dm conversation with Tom Whitby. In his interview, Matt explains how he uses Flipgrid , a video discussion tool, to engage teachers worldwide in weekly educational chats about a topic. The teachers join the discussion by posting thoughts through a webcam video.

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Online Teaching Is Improving In-Person Instruction on Campus

Edsurge

In fact a slew of research over the past two decades has found that teaching online makes professors better teachers in their classrooms, so much so that one 2009 study recommended that “faculty should be trained in distance education methods and technologies and should be encouraged to use those methods back in the classroom.”

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ParentSquare Partners with MyVRSpot to Enhance Video Messaging to K-12 School-Home Engagement Platform

eSchool News

10, 2022 —In a 2022 national survey about the future of school-home communications, school and district leaders said they would like to add more videos to improve communication with families. Stevens said. I have so many ideas on how we can use this enhanced resource to humanize our communications approach.

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New Posted Resources 12/04/2009

The Web20Classroom

Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense | Video on TED.com tags : TED , SixthSense , favorite Google Tools for Teachers (NCTE 2009) tags : Google , resources , favorite 5 Google Wave Gadgets that You Will Most Likely Use tags : googlewave , favorite Open Thinking Wiki tags : digitalstorytelling , favorite Facebook privacy: a guide tags : facebook (..)

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