iLearn Technology

APRIL 23, 2018

Students can create and share a book talk or chapter reflection, discuss current events, delve into a topic, engage in an online Socratic seminar around a given topic, collaborate, verbalize their learning process, etc. Flipgrid works in any classroom, with any age student, and within any subject.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

See this document for example lesson plans for primary, upper elementary, and secondary using the following templates/structures. A whole day to let students pick out books for an upcoming book club unit. Let’s say I planned out the first day of my new fantasy unit as looking through novels and doing a book tasting.

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Groups Conference Assessment Strategy 64

The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

See this document for example lesson plans for primary, upper elementary, and secondary using the following templates/structures. A whole day to let students pick out books for an upcoming book club unit. Let’s say I planned out the first day of my new fantasy unit as looking through novels and doing a book tasting.

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Groups Conference Assessment Strategy 61

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 5, 2015

You could also use very easy readings from much earlier grades, including fairy tales and short non-fiction books – with the added virtue that struggling readers would start off on the right foot since the texts and discussions would be accessible. Essential questions would frame cross-text debate and regular Socratic Seminars. (In

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 5, 2015

You could also use very easy readings from much earlier grades, including fairy tales and short non-fiction books – with the added virtue that struggling readers would start off on the right foot since the texts and discussions would be accessible. Essential questions would frame cross-text debate and regular Socratic Seminars. (In

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Strategy Secondary Analysis Common Core 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

With Greek secondary education teachers, we are going to talk about evolution teaching, didactics issues concerning this problematic subject for many science teachers. Science and literacy instruction in the elementary grades is the focus of a new series of web seminars for the 2010-2011 school year.

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OER Elementary Secondary Course 47

EdTechTeam

JANUARY 19, 2018

Step 4 Socratic Seminar with Sentence Starters: Move to an on-the-spot, think-fast, response system that requires accountable talk or sentence starters. Socratic seminars are just the activity for this. Great Book, Junior Great Book Shared Inquiry discussions , and Fishbowl discussions are similar to a Socratic seminar.

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Classroom Blended Learning Groups Google 52

The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 14, 2019

After almost a decade of teaching in the secondary ELA classroom in the United States and abroad in Bulgaria, Betsy started the Spark Creativity website and podcast. Now she spends her time creating and sharing innovative teaching strategies like escape rooms, book tastings, one-pagers, sketchnotes, hyperdocs, and more.

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

I’ve written two books about “the monsters of ed-tech” and certainly the “rough beasts” could be their kin. Ads for these creatures appeared in the back of comic books, alongside a number of other products promising similar sorts of scientific amazement and technological trickery.

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