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Need a New Job? Here’s What You Do

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Discuss not just your years of experience, but the student groups you’ve taught, the philosophies you’ve followed (such as IB or Common Core), parent needs met, pedagogy you’ve rolled out, teacher groups you’ve led, and more. In this section, also include all of your social media contacts.

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2017 Teachers Pay Teachers’ July Conference — Overview

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million education-oriented Pre-K through High School lesson plans, curricula, videos, classroom activities, assessments, books, bulletin board ideas, classroom decorations, interactive notebooks, task cards, Common Core resources, and more. Seminars I attended included: using social media to spread the word.

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7 Skills Students Need for Today’s Classwork

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Creating an online graphic organizer on the animal kingdom doesn’t necessarily conflate with knowing how to compare-contrast (a skill mentioned thirty-eight times by Common Core between kindergarten and eighth grade). Digital Citizenship. Let’s face it: Students are on social media or will be soon.

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What parents should ask teachers about technology

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Who teaches digital citizenship? . Often, when I talk to educators, the consensus is that “someone else is doing that” Sometimes, the tech teacher admits it’s them, but they have neither the time nor resources allocated to do it right. Ask teachers if they use social media with students and if so, how.

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6 Tips I Wish I’d Known When I Started Blogging

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Now, blogs focus on a theme, their popularity closely tied to the author’s voice and/or resources provided. And Problogger –one of my go-to resources–has a slew of great tips on improving your blog. 13 Ways Blogs Teach Common Core. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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Online Classes! On Your Schedule

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In this course, you will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding. digital citizenship. digital commerce. digital communications.

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Why and How Students Can Blog

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First: Don’t roll out blogging in your classroom without educating students on digital citizenship — privacy, profiles, footprints, safety, fair use/copyrights. Another good resource is Common Sense Media. 13 Ways Blogs Teach Common Core. But blogging is not without drawbacks.