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6 Ways to Improve Your Communication Skills

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Communication can be challenging for many who feel invisible. In today’s show, Dr. William Lane offers encouragement for those who struggle to communicate. With six simple steps, he helps us understand how to empower those who struggle to communicate by starting small.

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Removing the Stigma of Observations

A Principal's Reflections

As a teacher, I always dreaded observations early in my career. It wasn’t because I didn’t find them valuable or was torn apart. On the contrary, I found them to be an excellent opportunity to see how I was doing. The science supervisor at the time was extremely diligent in his narrative and always provided both commendations and at least one area where I could improve.

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10 Top Tips and Click-throughs in 2019

Ask a Tech Teacher

Because AATT is a resource blog, we share lots of tips our group comes across in their daily teaching as well as materials shared by others we think you’d like. Some you agree with; others, not so much. Here’s a run-down on what you thought were the most valuable in 2019: Top 10 Tech Tips. As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems which I share with you.

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Going On A STEM-Maker Journey WITH My Students

User Generated Education

Last semester, I worked with a few high school students to create a project for the New Mexico Governor’s STEM Challenge. Being a learner-centric, process-oriented educator (hence, the name of my blog – User Generated Education), I embraced the following practices during this project. Learners selected and developed their problem statement and guiding question.

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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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OPINION: Marching band sets the right tempo for many special-needs kids

The Hechinger Report

With plumed caps and braided epaulets for miles, marching bands are a staple of the high school football game. Students stride purposefully around the field with piccolos and tubas, and synchronize their steps to Billy Joel medleys, homages to Mary Poppins and even a snappy march or two from John Philip Sousa. Girls in flared skirts and knee-high boots triumphantly wave flags or twirl wooden rifles. .

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Harness the Power of Data in Your Daily Instruction

N2Y

As a special educator, you no doubt collect and have access to an abundance of student data —formal and informal, measurable and observational. More important than the quantity are what types of data you are collecting, how you analyze and share the information and how you use it to improve student outcomes. Insights from data benefit every team member throughout the education process: Teachers can see where their students are succeeding or struggling and make instructional decisions to foster s

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Be That One Caring Adult Each Child Needs

MiddleWeb

Do your students know how much you care? Especially those students who have built a wall or may face difficult situations at home? How can you connect? Principal Liz Garden found sticky notepads, a favorite book and regular one-to-one time can make all the difference.

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A Great Website to Engage Students in Reading and Story Telling Activities

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Storyline Online is an excellent literacy website to use with your kids. It helps immerse kids in engaging reading and storytelling experiences. Storyline Online streams ‘videos.

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4 Ways To Not Let Others Dim Your Light (#Podcast)

The Principal of Change

In October 2017, I posted the article “ 4 Ways to Not Let Others Dim Your Light.” Often, when I share articles like this, it is an opportunity to use my struggles to help others. I decided to revisit this post in the form of a podcast and talk it through, but I also wanted to share the original article. You can check out the podcast and/or read the article below. 4 Ways to Not Let Others Dim Your Light (Podcast on iTunes) | SoundCloud.

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What Happens in Your Brain When You Make Art

MindShift

A lot of my free time is spent doodling. I’m a journalist on NPR’s science desk by day. But all the time in between, I am an artist — specifically, a cartoonist. I draw in between tasks. I sketch at the coffee shop before work. And I like challenging myself to complete a zine — a little magazine — on my 20-minute bus commute. I do these things partly because it’s fun and entertaining.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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What’s New ~ January 2020

myViewBoard

We’re starting off the New Year with two new features: Live Captions and the Question Canvas. See What You Say. Selected accounts can try out the live caption feature. After signing in, switch to presentation mode to use the feature. When you speak through a microphone, closed captions appear on the top of the screen. [link]. Note that this feature is available only for selected accounts.

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Use GRASPS for Real-World Assessment

The Innovative Educator

Innovative educators understand that there is more to learning than processed worksheets and tests. That's why real-world tasks and assessments are finally making it out of just the elite schools and are becoming more prevalent in mainstream education. At the Tech & Learning Leadership Summit experts in the area of technology and education came together to discuss a variety of topics including how technology support bringing real learning experiences to the classroom.

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How to Start the Spring Semester Off Right

Turnitin

How students can make good on all those promises to ourselves in our spring semesters.

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How to Start the Spring Semester Off Right

Turnitin

How students can make good on all those promises to ourselves in our spring semesters.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.