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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Free eBooks and Audiobooks To grow professionally you definitely need to invest time and effort in learning new skills and competencies besides enriching your the knowledge base of your content area with new insights and state of the art research. EBooks and audiobooks are key in this regard.

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The Journey to Becoming an Author

A Principal's Reflections

My unexpected journey began with a decision to give Twitter a try in 2009. Apparently, I was dead wrong on this assumption and quickly learned that Twitter in itself wasn’t a powerful tool, but instead, it was the conversations, ideas, resources, and passionate educators that connected with me. This was not my intent or even a goal.

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How to Build Your PLN

Ask a Tech Teacher

Having people who understand how you think, have your back in emergencies, and serve as a virtual knowledge base will help you to handle difficult colleagues, adapt to challenging principals, address tricky parents, and differentiate for varied student needs. Attend virtual conferences. My Twitter handle is @askatechteacher.

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Bringing Literature to Life in Open Sim

The CoolCatTeacher

Mary Howard on episode 293 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. On April 26, celebrate PowerofEcon on Twitter with Discovery Education, CME Group, and their Econ Essentials Program. Twitter: @mrshoward118. It’s just this whole package of things.

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Take Student Collaboration to the Next Level – SULS0120

Shake Up Learning

The terminology is all the same giving kids a strong knowledge base for both subjects. . Another support for students came through a personal conference Vicki held. Twitter: @33heupel. Defending their claims with evidence is the same process for writing arguments. About Vicki Heupel. Website: [link].

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How to Make Assessment Meaningful this School Year | By @EduSight

TeacherCast

Given what we’re trying to help teachers with at Edusight , I was attracted to two sessions – making assessment meaningful, and reinventing the parent-teacher conference. The minor word of caution is that there is some value to memorization and knowledge-based learning, especially in early foundational concepts (e.g.,

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How to Engage Students and Support Learning in Large Classes

Edsurge

It’s worth noting, though, that the courses that were large tended to emphasize knowledge-based material. Both students who are formally enrolled in the course and those joining in because they want to are asked to share their responses to the challenges on instagram, on blog posts, and on Twitter using the #anth101 hashtag.

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