Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Instructional coaching is a form of professional development (PD) in which an accomplished teacher works with teachers in one-on-one settings to provide guidance and focus on practical strategies to increase student engagement and learning. Like in sports, its goal is to improve individual and team performance.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. These default features force online instructors to use a style of teaching that feels more like shouting to the masses than engaging in meaningful conversations.

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Linways Technologies

MAY 21, 2020

Open-ended discussions always keep students engaged. The students can experiment and experience with this active learning strategy. Dividing students into pairs and giving them small rewards will also encourage the students to participate more actively. It will also boost confidence in students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Interactive Lectures: Instead of passive listening, interactive lectures involve activities such as quizzes, polls, or small group discussions interspersed throughout the lecture to keep students engaged and reinforce key concepts. Students move around the room, examining each display and discussing their observations with their peers.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Observing the veteran teacher down the hall effectively facilitating Socratic seminars helps new teachers see and hear what success looks like. Teachers and school leaders often focus their use of technology on classroom implementation and student engagement. Edtech for teachers bridges the gaps to more collaboration.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We’ll explore how each platform can be utilized to maximize both teaching efficiency and student engagement, providing practical examples to illustrate their potential in various educational scenarios. Platforms for Group Discussions Here are some of our favourite platforms for group discussions: 1.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2022

But if you need evidence of student engagement, you’ll need to design your online course to stimulate it, with mini-quizzes and mini-exercises, among other interactive activities.” Before they click on Zoom, Sosulski says instructors must recognize that they won’t get the feedback they usually expect—in person real eye-contact.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2021

Consider how intellectually electrifying it might be for an underfunded college to recruit an eminent professor from a top-ranked school abroad to teach remotely—to deliver a lecture, attend a daylong seminar, or teach a semester-long course. Conventional instructors often limit class discussion the minute the bell rings.

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Digital Promise

MAY 14, 2019

Group talks with educators, such as “Math Fluency” and “Mindset Matters: A Growth Mindset Seminar,” give adults the opportunity to understand the theory behind what goes on in the classroom and ask questions about what their children are learning. Some events are particularly focused on parents and caregivers.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2021

Additional information on the partnership was presented at a recent breakout session at the 2021 Virginia Association for Career and Technical Education Professional Development and Leadership Seminar. About Technology Student Association. Its membership is over 250,000 students strong spanning 48 U.S. About Flinn Scientific.

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District Administration

MARCH 25, 2016

Starting with the district’s mission and vision will be key to success District Administration Custom Publishing Group District Administration, May 2016 By leveraging technology and digital content, schools can create highly effective 21st-century teaching and learning environments that significantly impact student engagement and drive achievement.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Interfaith friendships seem to form when students engage with peers of other worldviews both formally and informally, such as while socializing or using a shared interfaith space on campus. In short, students make interfaith friendships through collegiate interactions, but can these friendship connections be made and sustained online?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

In the year before the district launched Data Science, only about 45 percent of students who took Math I in ninth grade made it to Math III by their junior year. Oxnard’s first data science classes generated enough student interest that the district expanded the course to more schools, and its popularity has continued to grow.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Student Engagement : Discover innovative methods to engage and motivate students. Outside of school, he specializes in leadership, emotional, and professional development, working with students across the United States in hands-on workshops and seminars. © Shake Up Learning 2023.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

It got the students engaged and doing something as opposed to saying, ‘Well I can’t do that because I don’t have an autoclave.’. Marc Pedersen Paulding County High School Students At Paulding County High School in Dallas, Georgia, science classes are messy and alive.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

OCTOBER 14, 2012

The Socratic Seminar or fishbowl discussion begins with the layout of the classroom and the assigning of roles to students. Small group, whole class, or just speaking to one person, the critical thinking skills used in the Socratic discussion are skills that students need for every class and beyond.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Prezi Video enables users to design professional video presentations to be shared in classrooms, conferences, seminars, and the like. GoSoapBox is preferred by teachers managing large classes of 100+ students. Teachers use this platform to create polls and social questions and answers to keep students engaged during and after classes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2017

National Museum of African American History and Culture Many of the touchscreen experiences immerse students into the era, lives and opinions of Black Americans. We are creating more lesson plans that can go into the Learning Lab , more video clips, online seminars and workshops for teachers,” says Flanagan.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 31, 2019

They are more interactive and intuitive, and keep the students engaged in the learning process. You might have experienced this yourself; our concentration tends to waver if the content we are viewing is not engaging enough. Be it an online video or a live seminar. A delay in page load can ruin the overall experience.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

The opportunity to earn an A, even late in the semester, keeps students engaged, Fishman argues. And it encourages students to take risks, knowing that they can repair the damage later if they fail at first. Students need to reach 900,000 to get an A. In another graduate seminar, Fishman assigns only one paper.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Students expressed pride in their Brain Dumps such that I’d never seen from a computer-based or teacher-created test, asking to display their work in the classroom or bring it home to show their families. Socratic Seminar. Provide students with an overarching question and ask students to prepare ideas to support a discussion.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Students expressed pride in their Brain Dumps such that I’d never seen from a computer-based or teacher-created test, asking to display their work in the classroom or bring it home to show their families. Socratic Seminar. Provide students with an overarching question and ask students to prepare ideas to support a discussion.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 7, 2016

“If we’re serious about student engagement we need faculty members who are experienced in providing that kind of engagement,” he said. ” Experience, student engagement, not being a one-shot prof: that’s the outlines of multi-year, full time faculty.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

My personal example is worth noting as we are starting to see from the research coming available that the results of virtual learning, in which students engage in primarily online- mediated learning experiences, are mixed at best. The connections I make in person could lead to future collaborations down the road.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

My personal example is worth noting as we are starting to see from the research coming available that the results of virtual learning, in which students engage in primarily online- mediated learning experiences, are mixed at best. The connections I make in person could lead to future collaborations down the road.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Students worked on documentaries about race and diversity and a Nobel Prize–winning poet, conducted science experiments, and designed things like a new food waste disposal system for the campus and a low-cost hand prosthetic. 3 It’s a win-win for the students and their host companies, who often end up making job offers to the students.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

“The higher education market is incredibly competitive, so to be a competitive institution, you have to go beyond an amazing education and a great faculty,” said Donna Curry, who took over in March as executive director of alumni and student engagement at Clark University.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Principles of Organic Chemistry and other aptly named “weed-out” courses can raise the blood pressure of first- and second-year STEM students to new highs. These are courses college students must pass to become candidates for a degree in a STEM major.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Students expressed pride in their Brain Dumps such that I’d never seen from a computer-based or teacher-created test, asking to display their work in the classroom or bring it home to show their families. Socratic Seminar. Provide students with an overarching question and ask students to prepare ideas to support a discussion.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Students expressed pride in their Brain Dumps such that I’d never seen from a computer-based or teacher-created test, asking to display their work in the classroom or bring it home to show their families. Socratic Seminar. Provide students with an overarching question and ask students to prepare ideas to support a discussion.

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Assessment Study Groups Personalized Learning 52

Fractus Learning

APRIL 1, 2015

Part of The Corwin Connected Educator series, in this volume you’ll use the principles of connectedness and flipped learning to engage stakeholders—teachers, administrators, and parents—digitally, so they’re ready for productive discussion when you meet in person. This book for teachers introduces version 2.0

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

This resulted in a kind of wholesome engagement I hadn’t seen before. Similarly, to keep students engaged despite the monotony of screens, we tried a quick meditation half way through the seminar to center ourselves. Does it make them tense, does it loosen their muscles?

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

There’s a growing number of teachers going for the flipped instruction approach, as once they flip, they see positive results in terms of students’ engagement, peer collaboration and ultimately, academic outcomes. That is, a professor delivers a lecture and may not have enough time to answer students’ many content-related questions.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

APRIL 2, 2022

Firstly, while you may not want or need to include every single aspect for every discussion, the formatting suggestions Verso provides is excellent scaffolding to ensure students engage in high quality discourse. I quickly jumped on board and used it to set up a Socratic Seminar with my English II course.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

When I coach teachers, I encourage them to use one skill rubrics to quickly capture data as they observe students at work. For example, teachers who are observing a Socratic seminar or a small group discussion can create a rubric aligned with a speaking and listening standard.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

This resulted in a kind of wholesome engagement I hadn’t seen before. Similarly, to keep students engaged despite the monotony of screens, we tried a quick meditation half way through the seminar to center ourselves. Does it make them tense, does it loosen their muscles?

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Edthena

JULY 13, 2021

Filter your feedback comments by framework row to determine if you’re over-coaching about content knowledge rather than student engagement, and course-correct. Is Tina struggling with Socratic seminars right now, or was that months ago? Self-reflecting on your practice as a coach ? Don’t worry, we’ve been there, too.

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