Blog | Training v Facilitation. Ever taken part in any professional development? Was it a course? A workshop? A seminar? Maybe a conference? You know the type of thing where a trainer or speaker stands on the stage, you watch their Power Point presentation and you listen to what they tell you - about how they’ve been there, done that, written the book, been in the video? And you felt………? So you come away full of their tips and ideas, of all the stuff that they’ve done to make them an expert in their field. What if you could do some professional development that is actually designed for the people listening?
What if they work with you to help you understand that you already have the answers, you just haven’t realised it yet? What if they enable you to have that light bulb moment? You remember that moment, don’t you? How does that make you feel? And more importantly, how will it make your staff feel? And what difference will it make? Joyce Matthews. Springboard Media Education Channel. Steve Hargadon. Dr. Doug Green. The EdAdmin Minute - A New Podcast For The Busy School Administrator. This article has been just updated: May 2, 2020 Podcasts have never been more popular. It’s hard to find time to sit down and read a feature-length article—let alone a book—which is why more people than ever listen to podcasts while driving, cleaning, working out, or cooking.
There are podcasts on just about any subject you can think of, but educational podcasts are in particularly high demand these days. Regardless of whether you want to learn about history, finance, or the world we live in, our selection of top 7 best educational podcasts in 2019 has you covered. 1. Best for: Believers in the scientific method. The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe, or SGU for short, is an 80-minute podcast hosted by Steven Novella, MD, an American clinical neurologist and assistant professor at Yale University School of Medicine, and co-hosts Evan Bernstein, Cara Santa Maria, Robert Novella, and Jay Novella. 2. 99 Percent Invisible 3. Best for: Everyone who actually paid attention in history class. 4. 5. TeachersFirst: The web resource by teachers, for teachers.
Mrhooker: Here's the #SchoolCIO movi... 50 Excellent Online Professional Development Resources for Teachers. 3 Simple Steps to Do-it-yourself Professional Development. Professional Development | Viewpoint 3 Simple Steps to Do-it-yourself Professional Development By Meg Ormiston06/21/12 Today, every teacher needs to be in charge of his or her own professional development, if for no other reason than district budgets require everyone to be so much more creative.
However, there needs to be a balance between the formal and informal. Formal professional development would be workshops, conferences, and college classes. Informal learning could be attending an un-conference; following a back channel from a live professional development event like a conference; or watching videos on YouTube, Teacher Tube, or School Tube. Informal learning also might be as easy as sharing with colleagues in the hallway. Between the formal professional development sessions, each professional educator needs to seek professional development each day. YouTube is a great place to start. Blogstitute Week 1: What We Talk About When We Talk About Writing. June 25th, 2012 We are excited to kick off our Summer Blogstitute series with a post by Mark Overmeyer, author of When Writing Workshop Isn’t Working and What Student Writing Teaches Us and the DVD on conferring How Can I Support You? Mark has written many times for the Stenhouse blog and in this post he explores how the language we use in writing workshop turns an assignment into a treasured opportunity to write, and a student into a writer.
Be sure to leave your comments and questions! Three lucky commenters during the blogstitute will receive a package of five books of their choice. What We Talk About When We Talk About Writing Summer: a time to reflect on our teaching practices, a time to read more and write more for us, not just for our students. All of these experiences have shaped me as a writer and as a teacher of writing, and in particular they strike me as places where so much talk about writing happens.
So, what do we talk about when we talk about writing? Me: How is Skittles? Youpd. Learn. View | CASES* | Ahead.