17 Signs Your Classroom is Behind the Times

1.) Your students turn in their homework on printed paper...instead of digitally. 2.) For poster assignments, your students need glue, construction paper, and scissors... instead of using an online tool like Glogster. 3.) You still have chalk. 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.) 11.) 12.) 13.) 14.) 15.) 16.) 17.) What would you add to this list? Share this post with your friends and colleagues:

Debate Forum | Online Debate Community | CreateDebate Exchange 2.0 - Technology-enabled International Interaction | Connect all Schools Rationale: International collaboration is part of Secretary Arne Duncan’s call for international engagement and education reform: “. . . [I]n this interconnected world, our country risks being disconnected from the contributions of other countries and cultures. Through education and exchange, we can become better collaborators and competitors in the global economy.” -- Secretary Duncan’s speech to the Councilon Foreign Relations, May 26, 2010 The Teacher's Guide to International Collaboration was developed to help teachers use the Internet to "reach out" globally. This Guide has been prepared as part of the Department of Education's effort to expand global awareness through collaboration between students and teachers in the US with their peers around the world. In each section of this Guide we have also provided links to elementary, middle and high school projects and links to organizations that are involved in international education via the Internet and Web 2.0 tools.

Instructional Design New Teacher Academy: Lesson Planning Welcome to week two of Edutopia's New Teacher Academy blog series! I'm excited to be here with you sharing my passion to support and mentor new teachers. I hope that you will stay with us as we continue to look at five key topics designed to provide resources for new teachers in five key areas. To collaborate in more detail on these and other topics, I invite you to join my weekly New Teacher chat on Twitter, and also to visit my blog Teaching with Soul. Please view this video as I share a few words on lesson planning. Matt is a fourth-year teacher in New York City with experience teaching general education and special education. Lesson Planning with Matt Ray Without a detailed plan, you may -- if you're lucky -- deliver a lesson that turns out to be pretty good. Planning a lesson is not as simple as referring to a curriculum map, the next page in the textbook or standards. Lessons don't occur in a vacuum. "Data" is a four-letter word that strikes fear in many teachers. 1) Objective

The 21st Century Skills Teachers Should Have Technology advancements have touched every facet of life including education. This latter has been radically transformed and teachers who do not use social media and educational technology in their teaching no longer fit in the new system.That’s why every educator and teacher should reconsider certain values and principles . Today I am sharing with you two short videos that will hopefully change what some think about teaching. Watch this first one minute 40 seconds video to see the negative side of some teachers. Negative version of when i become a teacher So if you want to fit in the system and develop professionally then this is how to do it . watch this short video to learn more. positive version of when i become a teacher The 21st century teachers are characterized by certain holistic and student centered features , some of them are summarized below . The risk taker : Teachers should not wait for others to take the initiative , they have to be the lead. The Collaborator : The model :

The ADDIE Instructional Design Model