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5 Powerful Ways To Save Time As A Teacher

5 Powerful Ways To Save Time As A Teacher
Lack of time is a huge problem for teachers everywhere. There’s just never enough time for teachers to do their work well AND have a healthy, balanced life outside the classroom. For as long as I have been working to serve teachers and help you do your work better, time was always the one problem I couldn’t solve. I could share powerful teaching strategies, classroom management tips, game-changing tech tools, but when it came to really nailing the time shortage, I came up empty-handed. Until now. Now there is something that I truly believe is going to change teachers’ lives and give you back the time you so sorely need. The program, a year-long membership that delivers weekly e-mail tips and downloadable resources, aims to help teachers get a clearer sense of how many hours they are actually devoting to school-related tasks, then target a smaller, more reasonable number to shoot for. 2) Figure out The Main Thing and do it first. 5) Use scheduling to create boundaries around your time. Related:  DESARROLLO PERSONAL Y PROFESIONAL

Competencias TIC para el desarrollo profesional docente La educación del siglo XXI es otra. Las tecnologías de la información han abierto una nueva ventana para la transformación de los actuales procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje. De esta manera, los sistemas educativos de la sociedad contemporánea se enfrentan a múltiples retos y desafíos debido a la metamorfosis que está sufriendo la educación del presente. Atendiendo a este panorama, la Oficina de Innovación Educativa del Ministerio de Educación Nacional de la mano de expertos y representantes de instituciones educativas del país realizaron la publicación 'Competencias TIC para el desarrollo profesional docente', en la que "se construyeron acuerdos conceptuales y lineamientos para orientar los procesos formativos en el uso pedagógico de las tecnologías de la información". Es claro que el papel del maestro en la actualidad es otro. Ya no solo actúa como un formador o transmisor de conocimiento, sino que además se convierte en el guía y el tutor del alumno, de quien también aprende.

How to Stop Being Lazy and Get More Done: 5 Expert Tips Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller. To check it out, click here. Some days the to-do list seems bottomless. Just looking at it is exhausting. We all want to know how to stop being lazy and get more done. So I decided to call a friend who manages to do this — and more. Cal Newport impresses the heck out of me. He has a full-time job as a professor at Georgetown University, teaching classes and meeting with students.He writes 6 (or more) peer-reviewed academic journal papers per year.He’s the author of 4 books including the wonderful “So Good They Can’t Ignore You.” And yet he finishes work at 5:30PM every day and rarely works weekends. No, he does not have superpowers or a staff of 15. Below you’ll get Cal’s secrets on how you can better manage your time, stop being lazy, get more done — and be finished by 5:30. 1) To-Do Lists Are Evil. To-do lists by themselves are useless. Here’s Cal: Sum Up

Competencia digital docente La formación en competencias es un imperativo curricular que en el caso de la competencia digital ha tenido hasta ahora una especificación poco desarrollada y diversa en sus descriptores al no existir un marco de referencia común. Desarrollar la competencia digital en el sistema educativo requiere que los docentes tengan la formación necesaria en esa competencia. El "Marco Común de Competencia Digital Docente" es una propuesta estandarizada que especifica la competencia digital mediante descriptores de 21 sub-competencias organizados en 3 niveles y cinco áreas competenciales (información, comunicación, creación de contenidos, seguridad y resolución de problemas). El borrador inicial es traducción y adaptación a la profesión docente del marco propuesto por IPTS (Comisión Europea) para cualquier ciudadano europeo en relación con la Agenda Digital 2020.

The Power of the Morning Meeting: 5 Steps Toward Changing Your Classroom and School Culture "The whole morning meeting not only sets a really good tone for the students, but it sets a tone for me." - Teacher in Louisville, Kentucky When I first learned about the Morning Meeting model, I was working as an elementary school principal in Pasadena, California. I was new to that school, so I was skeptical about launching too many initiatives, but also curious about how it could work to transform my school and the lives of our students. The Morning Meeting was first proposed to me by a new teacher who had studied it in her pre-service classes. Set the tone for respectful learningEstablish a climate of trustMotivate students to feel significantCreate empathy and encourage collaborationSupport social, emotional and academic learning She had me at "respectful learning!" You see, I'd come to a school that was in a bit of trouble. Having been able to observe this school pre- and post-Morning Meeting, I can tell you that it was transformational. How It Begins 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

30+ Ultimate Headline Formulas for Tweets, Posts, and Emails A headline can serve either as an apple pie on the windowsill of your content or as its bouncer. It’s all in the way you phrase things. Fortunately for us, many people have found headlines that work wonders, consistently, time after time. Why not take some inspiration from the best headlines of the best headline writers? The blueprints exist to get your tweets, emails, updates, and articles clicked. I collected a trove of interesting and actionable headline formulas from some of the best sources for headline writing, and I’ve tossed in a few of our favorite Buffer headline formulas, too. Exclusive Bonus: Download a free PDF of the Best Headline Formulas! The science and psychology of a must-click headline On average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. This oft-cited quote from advertising guru David Ogilvy might be putting it mildly. Phew. One final thought about headlines (and then I’ll get to the formulas, I promise!) The Ultimate Headline Formula Ex. Ex.

100 Excellent Art Therapy Exercises for Your Mind, Body, and Soul January 9th, 2011 Pablo Picasso once said, "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." It's no surprise, then, that many people around the world use art as a means to deal with stress, trauma and unhappiness – or to just find greater peace and meaning in their lives. Emotions Deal with emotions like anger and sadness through these helpful exercises. Draw or paint your emotions. Relaxation Art therapy can be a great way to relax. Paint to music. Happiness Art can not only help you deal with the bad stuff, but also help you appreciate and focus on the good. Draw your vision of a perfect day. Portraits Often, a great way to get to know yourself and your relationships with others is through portraits. Create a future self-portrait. Trauma and Unhappiness These activities will ask you to face some unpleasant aspects of life, but with the goal of overcoming them. Draw a place where you feel safe. Collaging Create a motivational collage. Self Draw images of your good traits. Gratitude

El Manifiesto Cluetrain de las administraciones públicas En 1999 Fredrick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls y David Weinberger escribieron el Manifiesto Cluetrain que recogía en sus 95 tesis el impacto que internet tendría en los mercados, los consumidores y las organizaciones. Estamos hablando de un documento que tiene más de 15 años de vigencia y que fue escrito en un momento incipiente de internet y en donde ni siquiera las redes sociales existían, pero el cual sigue teniendo plena vigencia. En el año 2015 dos de los autores del manifiesto inicial, Doc Searls y David Weinberger, revisaron el Manifiesto y publicaron el New Cluetrain donde plantean 121 nuevas tesis sobre Internet y su evolución. Pero ¿qué pasaría si adaptáramos el Manifiesto Cluetrain a las administraciones públicas? ¿y si en vez de hablar de mercados, consumidores y organizaciones hablamos de sociedad, usuarios y administraciones públicas? Y después de esto, ¿crees que es aplicable el Manifiesto Cluetrain a las administraciones públicas? Relacionado 21 octubre, 2015

4 Phases of Inquiry-Based Learning: A Guide For Teachers 4 Phases Of Inquiry-Based Learning: A Guide For Teachers by Terry Heick According to Indiana University Bloomington, Inquiry-based learning is an “instructional model that centers learning on a solving a particular problem or answering a central question. There are several different inquiry-based learning models, but most have several general elements in common: Learning focuses around a meaningful, ill-structured problem that demands consideration of diverse perspectivesAcademic content-learning occurs as a natural part of the process as students work towards finding solutionsLearners, working collaboratively, assume an active role in the learning processTeachers provide learners with learning supports and rich multiple media sources of information to assist students in successfully finding solutionsLearners share and defend solutions publicly in some manner” The process itself can be broken down into stages, or phases, that help teachers frame instruction. 1. Student-to-material. 2. 3.

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