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Coaching is Critical to the Success of a Shift to Blended learning

Catlin Tucker

Schools invested money in purchasing devices and improving access to reliable internet to meet the demands of the pandemic, and leadership teams want to keep the momentum going. A coach can more effectively meet teachers where they are at in a coaching session or series of sessions as compared to an all-staff training.

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Earth Day Class Activities

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Have students read the book, meet in study groups to discuss it, and then devise their own projects to address the concerns. Students will itemize their usage at the start of the month, meet in small groups (or as a class) to discuss ways to reduce this, and then weekly rerun the calculator to see if they’re improving.

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IPEVO VZ-R HDMI/USB Dual Mode 8MP Document Camera

Kathy Schrock

IPEVO has been offering document cameras for schools for many years. That low-cost ($69) device demonstrated to us how effective a document camera could be in supporting teaching and learning. Many educators are submitting their uses of the IPEVO document cameras and sharing them with the rest of us.

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Varsity Blues, Online: Georgetown U. Parent Paid $9K for Stand-In to Take Online Courses for Her Son

Edsurge

It also had its employees pose as students to take online courses for them once they were enrolled, to make sure they passed. The legal documents outlining the charges against the parent, Karen Littlefair, paint a picture of people who view college credit as something that can easily be bought as a commodity.

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Creating a Sustainable City (#SDG 11): A Collaboration Between NM Gifted Elementary Students and PA 10th Graders

User Generated Education

Along with teaching these gifted elementary students (who I teach for multiple years), I teach graduate courses for Walden University. One of the courses is Innovative Curriculum. Of course, I went a little crazy as my elementary students just finished their sustainable city model.

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How Online Learning Can Improve Your Teaching

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That doesn’t happen in online courses. State requirements are starting to address this by requiring online virtual meetings between teacher and student. That approach, of course, sapped the advantages of being online. ” Ignore Innocent Mistakes. Pay Attention to Human Contact. Think about it: Why does it matter?

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Building a specifications grading course, part 2

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

This is the second part of a two-parter where I am going into detail about how the grading system in my current course, Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, is set up. The first part, where I described the big picture of the course, its learning objectives, and what a "C" and "A" semester grade should mean, is here.

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