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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

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Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. Student Anxiety in Online Learning In this course, you’ll analyze anxiety brought about by technology immersion as an overactive fight–flight–freeze survival response. Online Assessment. Look at this course.

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Education Galaxy–Personalized Learning That’s Fun

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It’s online assessment, practice, and instruction for K-6 students with a tagline: Curiously fun, amazingly effective, refreshingly affordable. Thankfully, Jeremy Verret, the founder of Education Galaxy, provided me with more information: What is Education Galaxy ? I give new webtools about two minutes.

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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

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Trauma-Informed Teaching Trauma-informed teaching has moved to everyone’s classroom and school, especially from the impact of COVID-19. In navigating today’s world, trauma-informed teaching is vital to our success as teachers. Project-Based Learning Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a topic we often discuss on my podcast.

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Examples of Technologies that Improve Student Learning

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Podcasting and Audio Tools: Engage students in creating podcasts or audio projects using tools like Anchor or Audacity, promoting communication skills, creativity, and allowing them to present information in innovative ways. Furthermore, technology cultivates digital literacy, equipping students with skills needed in the digital age.

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Learning.com Joins Google for Education Technology Partner Program

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Students engage with interactive modules that use real-life situations to introduce, develop and master key digital literacy skills, such as computer fundamentals and keyboarding, online safety and digital citizenship, applied productivity applications such as spreadsheets and presentation software, and computational thinking and coding.

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How to Prepare Students for PARCC/SBACC Tests

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A good idea is to have students take some online assessments prior to this summative one. More tips on assessments: I need year-long assessments. 10 Factors to Inform Tech Assessment. They’re long tests with lots of keyboarding and other tech skills. Problem Solving.

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8 Must-See Hidden Gems from ISTE 2018

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Want to speed up fluency assessments and free up time for instruction? This early literacy tool created by NWEA allows for whole-class, online assessment of oral reading fluency and other key skills thanks to speech recognition and audio recording software. have accurately read our fatigue regarding multiple-choice assessments.