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Creative, child-centered art and literacy ideas and activities Elementary Teacher Resources, Get The Teaching Resource You Need PYP Visual Art Central Ideas I hate coming up the right wording for with central ideas, especially for Units Outside the Programme Of Inquiry. It's hard when you don't have a team to bounce ideas off of. Anyway, I always wished that there was a Central Idea Bank where a PYP art teacher could go to "steal" a central idea and tweak it to fit their needs. So I did it. Visual Arts Central idea Bank: People use different materials and resources to express feelings, ideas and understanding. Architecture often reflects culture. Cultural traditions can be preserved in artwork, and can help people express their identities. Celebrations and traditions are an important part of our cultural identity. Colors are used and interpreted in a variety of ways around us. The fine arts provide us with the opportunity to reflect on, extend, and enjoy creativity. Noticing and analyzing patterns helps us interpret, explain and respond to our environment. Visual representations facilitate our understanding of the world around us.

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A Parent's Guide to 21st-Century Learning You’ll find a selection of outstanding online resources and projects, sorted by grade levels, to provide a glimpse of successful school programs. Elementary School: The World Peace Game Skype in the Classroom Peace Helpers Become Classroom Problem Solvers Middle School: Down the Drain Digiteen: Digital Citizenship for Teenagers World of Warcraft in School High School: World Youth News Digital Youth Network Money Corps: Finance Experts as Guest Teachers Across the Grades: More Ideas that Work Ten Tips to Bring 21st-Century Skills Home Resources: Bring the C's to Your School

Free Technology for Teachers Teaching in the Age of Minecraft Like many 11-year-olds in Texas, Ethan had to build a model of the Alamo as a school project. Often, students make their dioramas out of paper mache or popsicle sticks, but Ethan’s teacher gave him permission to build his project in Minecraft, the popular sandbox software game in which players build structures out of blocks. With his dad’s help, Ethan recorded a video tour of his scale model of the fort, complete with explanatory signs, and posted it on YouTube. With more than 18 million downloads to date, Minecraft is the best-selling computer game of all time; the game’s free-form structure has made it popular with kids and adults alike. "Teachers already want to use these games in the classrooms," Levin said. Levin, now 40 with a sandy beard, glasses, and ponytail, first played an early version of Minecraft with his 5-year-old daughter in 2010. But it was worth it. Diane Main teaches a high-school computer-science class at the Harker School in San Jose, California.

Every Student Response Strategies | LessonCast True implementation of personalized learning in schools requires a shift in the roles of educators and a shift in educator professional learning. This course examines the evolving role of teachers incorporating personalized learning experiences in the classroom. Taking a close look at what personalized learning is and isn’t, participants create resources to support teacher roles as facilitator, assessor, instructional designer, content curator, coach, and advisor, and family-school collaborator. Lessoncast believes in personalized professional learning. While the course opens on July 21 (8:00 am EST), you may register at any time and complete the course activities at your own pace. iLearn Technology

inquiry | Inquiring Minds We are about to start author studies here in my Kindergarten class, but first, we took some time to tune in. The notion of tuning in is often misunderstood. Some teachers regard tuning in as initial explorations of a unit’s content or concepts, which is not altogether incorrect- provoking student interest and identifying personal connections is a necessary component of the start of a unit of inquiry in order to help students begin their journey to deep conceptual understandings. However, teachers must also tune in to their students- What do they already know? Kath Murdoch (the well-known inquiry rock star) suggests the teacher’s primary role during the tuning in phase of inquiry is to “… stimulate, question, record, mediate and, above all, to listen.” Part one First, we defined what an author is. Next, the students brainstormed what authors do. – To help us learn to read. – Because they want to tell a story. – So they can tell us something. – So we can listen to an author’s story. Part two

Tips for Writing Instructional Objectives - Bloom's Taxonomy Job Aids I am so delighted to see this post that includes Bloom's Taxonomy Wheels by ZaidLearn. I always find that it's far easier to design materials using these wheels than it is to see the verbs/products in lists. Many instructional designers can benefit from these job aids when trying to find the right action verbs for their objectives. Source: Source: Source: Bloom’s digital taxonomy. Have fun, designers!

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