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Remote Learning Teaching Tips

A Principal's Reflections

More than half of those surveyed teach in public schools (66 percent) and more than half are elementary school teachers (60 percent). Utilize chat and screen share features inherent in video conference tools. If not, consider this PreK – 12 resource from Khan Academy or some tools highlighted HERE. My favorites at bit.ly

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How to Leverage Technology Tools for Tutoring (sponsored post)

EdTech4Beginners

If a student is struggling with a topic or simply has questions they need answered between sessions, it’s simple to set up a quick inter-session meeting via video conference. Khan Academy. A nonprofit academic organization, Khan Academy was created to provide free, high-caliber educational tools to everyone.

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‘Students Are Lonely:’ What Happens When Coronavirus Forces Schools Online

Edsurge

And then there’s Seoul Foreign School in South Korea, which serves about 1,500 students from elementary to high school, and where teachers have been using a hybrid approach for about a week, explains Tanya LeClair, a digital learning coach who is originally from Canada. and Khan Academy, which allows for timed tests.

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Teaching isn’t Rocket Science – It’s Way More Complex

The CoolCatTeacher

Sponsor: The STLinATL Conference will be at Woodward Academy in Atlanta July 26-27, 2018. You know, if I taught math, I’d be harvesting videos from the Khan Academy or places like that, rather than creating my own. In 2006 I gave up my job as an elementary principal to care for my wife who had Lou Gehrig’s disease.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Rogers Elementary Principal Lisa Lovato. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report.

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EdSurge’s 2017 Year in Review: The Top 10 K-12 Stories, as Chosen by You

Edsurge

Khan Academy’s New ‘Teacher Aid’ Tool Goes for a Test Drive in Southern California Khan Academy videos have long been used in K-12 classrooms of all grade levels, even though it was never expressly marketed to them. So said former Chicago administrator Jennie Magiera on the show floor at ISTE, a conference she keynoted.

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What if personalized learning was less about me and more about us?

The Hechinger Report

This year, for example, Harvey Elementary School in Kenosha, Wisconsin, parted ways with EL after five years, because teachers struggled to align EL lessons and progress measures with the separate standards and reporting required by their district. “We We have three big questions in Crew: Who am I? How am I doing?