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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Blended Learning In my opinion, the best 21st-century classrooms are “bricks” and “clicks,” blending together the best of face-to-face and online. Blended learning is not new. Blended Learning Classrooms are made of “bricks’ and “clicks” and every teacher should be ready.

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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

You’ll learn how to identify conditions such as PTSD and how to help students through natural and healthy grieving processes. The strategies will not only help you be more engaged, present, and fulfilled as a teacher, but you’ll also apply your learning to your classroom and your students. Learn More. Online Assessment.

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100+ Great Google Classroom Resources for Educators

The CoolCatTeacher

This handy tool has opened up the doors of blended learning and collaborative classrooms like never before. Teachers wanting to implement Google Classroom can use these resources to get started, level up their learning, or become a pro at all things Google. Assessment. Blog Posts. Voices From the Middle , 23 (2), 81.

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20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom

Shake Up Learning

This is not a robust threaded discussion tool like I wish it was, but it can be handy for formative assessments and to check for understanding. Formative is a free online assessment tool that is very robust. Learn more about InsertLearning here: 4 Ways to Blend Learning with InsertLearning. Mentimeter.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR.

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

Pearson CEO John Fallon recently met with a group of reporters at Education Week’ s offices and spoke about his company’s business strategies and record, and offered a defense against some of its detractors’ claims. “I can’t speak for other companies, but I have a lot of confidence in the reliability of our online assessments.