A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 26, 2020

A recent eSchool News article highlighted that most teachers don’t feel fully prepared for remote learning. ClassTag surveyed more than 1,200 U.S. teachers in mid-March to collect and share best practices, ideas, and common approaches to remote learning. What matters above all is to keep moving forward.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

How to power through a difficult parent-teacher meeting comes to mind, but there are many challenges that teachers learn how to handle in time. You can do this by gathering a focus group of teachers from a district or school, by handing out surveys or by observing them while they work. Open the way to communication.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 11, 2018

In the past 10 years, social media has helped educators connect online to more easily share resources, ideas, and practices among themselves, leading to more grass roots, open source collaboration and the evolution of personal learning networks. Download the edWeb 2018 Professional Learning Survey.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Common learning goals and objectives A set of common goals, along with a designated meeting time for focused effort, helps each participant get the most out of a PLC. By setting measurable objectives, educators can use meetings to work together, track progress, and achieve shared teaching goals.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Tools for Learning Twitter : Improve instruction through global collaboration (sharing resources, best practices, lesson ideas, acquire knowledge, networking, tracking conferences, etc.), grow professionally by establishing a Personal Learning Network (PLN) , follow specific hashtags (#).

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 17, 2015

Create a simple digital or paper survey to give out as homework during the first week of school for students and families. Be ready to re-survey, or at least return the results at the end of the year, as everyone will enjoy reading the answers again. Get to know your students and their families. New Year Selfies.

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MSEDTechie

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Mandating that teachers attend a specific training, and never surveying them to ask what they need, or what they would like to learn. Meeting this challenge is a huge task. Teachers need the opportunity to collaborate, they need to have a sense of ownership in their learning, and they need to feel valued.

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