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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Forming Community Partnerships to Access Educational Resources In this course for school leaders, you will explore methods for seeking out and partnering with community members to gain a variety of resources for your school. Online Assessment. Assessment must respect learners, provide actionable feedback, and motivate.

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In the marketplace: Gaming, digital citizenship, PD initiatives, and more

eSchool News

Teq Online PD offers educators unlimited access to over 200 live and archived professional development sessions focused on the effective integration of technology into instruction. There are certification tracks on Google, Microsoft, Apple, SMART, among other topics, like online assessment, STEM, ELA, Math, Social Studies, and PBL.

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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Student Engagement I’m in social media groups where frustrated teachers recently commented that their grade books looked like “Swiss Cheese” and that many students were just missing during online learning sessions. Digital Assessments How can we effectively assess learning in a digital classroom?

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Examples of Technologies that Improve Student Learning

eSchool News

Augmented Reality (AR) for Art and Design: Use AR applications to overlay digital elements on students’ physical artwork or designs, allowing for interactive presentations and enhancing creativity in art and design classes. Furthermore, technology cultivates digital literacy, equipping students with skills needed in the digital age.

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Learning.com Joins Google for Education Technology Partner Program

techlearning

Students engage with interactive modules that use real-life situations to introduce, develop and master key digital literacy skills, such as computer fundamentals and keyboarding, online safety and digital citizenship, applied productivity applications such as spreadsheets and presentation software, and computational thinking and coding.

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Preparing Students with Technology Skills

edWeb.net

Using Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development , Meyer breaks down 12 essential digital literacy skills critical for students before entering high school into four key themes: keyboarding and digital essentials, online safety and digital citizenship, technology applications, and computational thinking and coding.

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Digital versus physical textbooks

Hapara

By using digital textbooks, learners can practice note-taking and highlighting to organize their learning. With embedded glossaries and formative online assessments, they can self-monitor. Digital textbooks also include links for extra practice and enrichment, giving students a choice for how they want to learn.

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