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How We Can Honor Indigenous Values in Our Teaching Without Appropriating the Culture

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This past June, I received an email inviting me to participate in a webinar on Gratitude-Based Learning (GBL). However, during the seminar, the facilitators jumped directly into piloting GBL activities with attendees. Hence, when I saw that the facilitators of the GBL webinar were appropriating Indigenous culture, I had to speak up.

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How to Evaluate Programs You’ve Never Used in Less Than Seven Minutes

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If you’re like me, you spent the summer attending webinars, seminars, and conferences. You collected a long list of highly-recommended resources that you can’t wait to try in your classroom. This two-step process doesn’t assure that once I try the program in a real classroom, it’ll perform as promised.

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Is the Socratic Method Right for Your Class?

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Have you ever walked into a classroom where students were engaged in serious on-topic discussion, debating ideas and challenging each other to provide evidence of their statements? Chances are, you entered a classroom using a discussion method known as Socratic Debate , aka Socratic Method, Socratic Circle, or Socratic Inquiry.

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Tips for incentivizing your teachers team while working remotely

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This is all the more relevant to educators, who will need to be leading lessons, seminars and one-on-one study sessions on a daily basis. There is nothing more frustrating for a remote worker than to find that the hardware, software or network connection they are using to fulfil their duties is not up to scratch.

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Make your LMS a social learning platform

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Multi-user video conferencing /Live classroom sessions and webinars. WizIQ’s Virtual Classroom , for instance, enables hassle-free live-sessions across all devices and platforms. Seminars held online, are called webinars. More on these topics: Gamifying your classroom (a lesson plan). Breakout rooms.

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Goal: From the Heart to the Mind

Teacher Reboot Camp

At our official site, 30Goals.com , find all the goals, participant reflections, badges, and get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers: Small Steps to Transform Your Classroom workbook. Click here to discover all the 2015 goals ! Bio - Larissa Albano is a CertTesol certified English teacher.

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Goal: From the Heart to the Mind

Teacher Reboot Camp

At our official site, 30Goals.com , find all the goals, participant reflections, badges, and get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers: Small Steps to Transform Your Classroom workbook. Click here to discover all the 2015 goals ! Bio - Larissa Albano is a CertTesol certified English teacher.

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