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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Online Assessment. Assessment must respect learners, provide actionable feedback, and motivate. Sometimes this feels like a Herculean task, but there are best practices to help all of us get better at assessment. When you take time to improve assessment, students can improve their learning. Learn More.

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In the marketplace: Gaming, digital citizenship, PD initiatives, and more

eSchool News

Teq Online PD offers educators unlimited access to over 200 live and archived professional development sessions focused on the effective integration of technology into instruction. There are certification tracks on Google, Microsoft, Apple, SMART, among other topics, like online assessment, STEM, ELA, Math, Social Studies, and PBL.

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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Teacher Collaboration Building and being part of a Professional Learning Community (PLC) is an important strategy for leveling up your teaching. As schools work to make digital assessments more effective, now is a great time to learn about how to create and plan your own for the fall. See the course 10.

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Preparing Students with Technology Skills

edWeb.net

Using Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development , Meyer breaks down 12 essential digital literacy skills critical for students before entering high school into four key themes: keyboarding and digital essentials, online safety and digital citizenship, technology applications, and computational thinking and coding.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR.