9 Great Nonprofits to Support School Leaders. Teaching with Discussions. One of the most challenging teaching methods, leading discussions can also be one of the most rewarding.
Using discussions as a primary teaching method allows you to stimulate critical thinking. As you establish a rapport with your students, you can demonstrate that you appreciate their contributions at the same time that you challenge them to think more deeply and to articulate their ideas more clearly. Frequent questions, whether asked by you or by the students, provide a means of measuring learning and exploring in-depth the key concepts of the course. Getting StartedThroughout the DiscussionAfter the DiscussionLinks and References Create a comfortable, non-threatening environment.
Arrange the chairs in a configuration that will allow students to see and speak with one another. Get to know your students and the skills and perspectives they bring to the discussions. Clarify the rules and expectations for discussions at the outset. Plan and prepare the discussion. Provide a structure. Breakouteduintro. How To Give Good Feedback by Harvard EdCast. Changing the Conversation About Librarians. Just another University Libraries Community site. As Campus Compact celebrates its 30th Anniversary at their Annual Conference in March, 2016, there will be a library-focused pre-conference.
Libraries and the Public Purposes of Higher Education will take place Sunday, March 20 from 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. in Boston, MA. Register by October 15 before rates increase: The program for the afternoon is as follows: Libraries and the Public Purposes of Higher Education Learning to share: Partnerships in service learning, public scholarship, and library exhibitions Presenters: Debby Walser-Kuntz and Margaret Pezalla-Granlund, Carleton College Abstract: Libraries can serve as a site for student-curated, curricular exhibitions that provide an opportunity for public scholarship and an extension of service learning. On the road to Information Literacy: Mapping IL learning outcomes to service learning courses Presenter: Olivia H.
Continue reading. Online Reading Activities. CTQ #CTQCollab. Micro credentials Driving teacher learning leadership 3. Getting Smart. Micro-Credentials: The Future of Professional Learning. In 2012 many of us thought massively open online courses (MOOC) would transform higher education.
What could be better than free courses from the world’s best professors? MOOCs extended access and created compelling success stories like Luis Tandalla, a college student from Ecuador who took one of the first free online classes in machine learning and won a global data competition a year later. Disappointing course completion rates suggest that DIY HigherEd isn’t for everyone. Free courses are enticing but it turns out that motivation and support are important to most learners. MOOCs and other low cost models will continue to pressure second and third tier HigherEd as, as John Danner puts it, “Mass education is going to be free.” Daphne Koller, Coursera president, is enthusiastic about learning hubs, small, facilitator-led study groups using open content. MOOC providers achieved significant scale but struggled to develop a sustainable business model. Market signaling. Edu implications. An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie.
Free edTPA Tools Support Teacher Candidates and Programs - the Edthena blog. Completing edTPAⓇ is a critical step for many teacher candidates on the path to becoming a fully-certified teacher.
But assembling the different artifacts, commentaries, and video clips in an organized way – and then transferring it to the edTPA platform – can be a challenging part of the journey for a candidate. Our daily focus at Edthena is building tools to make using and analyzing video easy, so we wanted to apply that expertise to ensuring that managing video as part of the edTPA process wasn’t a technical challenge for candidates. We believe we have designed a better way to assemble and transfer the required edTPA artifacts for submission for official scoring, and we now offer the Edthena edTPA tools to all programs and candidates at no cost. (Just to clarify what this means: the Edthena edTPA tools are free for any organization whether or not you are an existing Edthena partner.)
The detailed explanation is what follows. Professional Development For Teachers. How peer video coaching is completely changing how our teachers teach. Peer-to-peer video comments are changing how one district’s teachers think about their practice A new era of professional development is sweeping into districts across the country, and just in time.
For many districts, the days of after-school PowerPoint-driven lectures not differentiated by content, expertise, grade-level or delivery, not to mention daylong workshops on an obsolete topic, have recently given way to face-to-face coaching programs and professional learning communities. And in St. Vrain Valley School District, where we serve 32,000 students in seven towns northwest of Denver, we’ve gone one step further. We’ve augmented our professional development program with an online video coaching platform for classroom observation through one-on-one coaching and collaborative study teams. Hard questions lead to the right answer The company just launched a new iOS app, which makes it possible to have a video uploaded before the class period is finished. A picture IS worth 1,000 words. Project Tomorrow. DS.