Sat.Aug 17, 2019

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Starting Off the School Year: It’s About the Learners

User Generated Education

I always start off the school year focusing on connections – my connections to the students, their connections to me and the other in the class. Too many classes, all grade levels, begin the school year with getting down to academic business – starting to cover content, discussing expectations regarding academic requirements, giving tests, and other academic information provided by the teacher to the students in a mostly one-way communication.

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Create a Culture, Not a Classroom: Why Seating Charts Matter for Student Success

Edsurge

The start of a school year means a new seating chart for each classroom—full of students that the teacher likely hasn’t met. Without knowing the students, how does a teacher know where to assign their seats? This question comes up each summer as teachers strive to create the best learning environment possible. From my experience in the classroom, I’ve found that seating chart choices can be critical to how students engage with one another and the teacher.

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3 Tips For Bringing Local Businesses Into Your High School Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

contributed by Anita Lamoureux In Gresham-Barlow School District in Oregon, we recently launched a pilot program that leverages partnerships with local industry to enhance our Career and Technical Education (CTE) offerings and shape career pathways that start in elementary and extend through high school and post-secondary. Spearheaded by Superintendent Dr.

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Google Sheets: Cell History

Teacher Tech

See the Edit History of a Cell When was that cell updated? Who changed this value? In Google Sheets you no longer need to wonder that question. Version history for an overall document is amazing but can be challenging with spreadsheets. Edits in a spreadsheet may occur over multiple tabs. Reviewing the version history requires […]. The post Google Sheets: Cell History appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Treating Workplace Attachment Disorder

The Innovative Educator

We all work with someone suffering from an attachment disorder. You know that person. Despite the fact that you've sent them a link to a perfectly good collaborative document, they've taken the liberty to disconnect from the original document. They’ve copied and pasted your document into Word. Tracked changes. Then, they've arrogantly sent it back to the group as an attachment.