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Meet TARA: Your New Teacher Headquarters

The CoolCatTeacher

Organizing lesson plans, units, resources, links, IEP’s, and IEP meetings can be cumbersome and stressful. Scheduling and Tracking Meetings. ” The post Meet TARA: Your New Teacher Headquarters appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day.

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Getting Started with Project-Based Learning in the Elementary Classroom [Download]

Edsurge

Can elementary students effectively complete research projects? Will they still meet required learning objectives with the teacher serving as a guide instead of teaching the curriculum in a direct, traditional manner? Download Getting Started with Project-Based Learning. The answer, thankfully, is a resounding yes!

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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. Of course, I went a little crazy as my elementary students just finished their sustainable city model. One of the courses is Innovative Curriculum.

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Supporting Multilingual Learners in Early Elementary Education

Waterford

When hosting parent conferences, family engagement activities, or concerts, consider requesting an interpreter to meet the language needs of your school,” suggests Candra Morris, VP of Professional Learning at Waterford.org, in her book Why Every Child Needs a Village For Academic Success.

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Open Badges in Elementary School

The CoolCatTeacher

Some elementary classrooms are using self-directed badges for competency acquisition by students. We’ll have free resources available for downloading. Open Badges in Elementary School. Vicki: Today we’re talking with Amy Cooper, who’s at an elementary school in Minnesota. Link to show: www.coolcatteacher.com/e292.

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It's Elementary When it Comes to #EdTech

A Principal's Reflections

Image credit: [link] The other day I had the unique challenge and opportunity of working with elementary teachers in the Spotswood School District. The teachers I was working with only had access to a laptop cart, thus apps that had to be downloaded on a device were not an option.

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6 Digital storytelling tools for hybrid learning environments

Neo LMS

With Immersive Reader , it also promotes accessibility by providing more than 100 languages, which help to meet the language needs of students and families. Elementari. Elementari is a great option for having students create an interactive story by remixing the stories available.

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