Know Students Better: A Visual Guide to Formative Assessment Tools When teachers know their students well, they can build strong connections that lead to better learning. Knowing students’ interests, strengths, and weaknesses help teachers tailor learning experiences for their students. Formative assessment involves the teacher collecting information about what students know, don’t know, and want to learn. Reader's Theater Scripts and Plays for the Classroom Reader's Theater Scripts and Plays Readers Theater is a dramatic presentation of a written work in a script form. Readers read from a "script" and reading parts are divided among the readers. No memorization, costumes, blocking, or special lighting is needed. Presentations can easily be done in a k-3 classroom.
film discussion questions Discussion Questions and Projects That Can Be Used With Any Film Discussion Questions: 1. Techie Tues – Jenny Hansen’s Top Ten OneNote Tips – K.B. Owen, mystery writer Welcome to Tuesday Terrific, where we celebrate getting over the Monday hump and picking up speed for the rest of the week. I am SO excited (somebody pinch me!) to have the ever-fabulous blogger/tech guru/writer/overall-great-gal Jenny Hansen here today! This Tuesday really is terrific, LOL. Jenny and I are doing a post swap in honor of her one-year blogiversary at More Cowbell, and I’m so thankful that she’s here to explain the great features of Microsoft’s OneNote as a writer resource. 65 Free Interactive Whiteboard Resources Interactive whiteboard resources are a great way for teachers to engage classrooms in learning. While many teachers are spending hours a day creating their own activities for their interactive whiteboards, there are tons of free sources to help teachers learn about and use IWBs with students to further their use of technology in the classroom. Here is a list of some great interactive whiteboard resources and activities guaranteed to stimulate learning: General Interactive Whiteboard Resources for Teachers TeacherLED – TeacherLED is a site dedicated to making the use of Interactive Whiteboards (IWB) easier and more productive.
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21 Skype Lessons For Active Learning, Sorted By Topic Continuing our mini-series on using Skype in the classroom, I wanted to present a few of the many Skype lessons that are currently available for classrooms and everyone else to try out. What is a Skype lesson, you ask? It’s simply a pre-planned ‘call’ where you can watch and learn from others via Skype. Like a Google+ Hangout or other live video-based lesson. Below are just a very small number of Skype lessons you should consider checking out over at the official Skype in the Classroom website.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FOR USE WITH ANY FILM THAT IS A WORK OF FICTION – TEACH WITH MOVIES Note: In some of the questions we have used the term “major characters.” Before asking the questions, have the class identify the major characters. In addition, these questions can also be limited to one or more characters. Characterization is delineated through (1) the character’s thoughts, words, speech patterns, and actions; (2) the narrator’s description; and (3) the thoughts, words, and actions of other characters. When students analyze character, they should be reminded to have these three sources in mind.
Sinead Laffan - Five, ten, fifteen minutes? Exactly how long does 'development' take? About the webinar Time; there's never enough. And finding some for your own development can seem impossible. Here Is A Great Tool to Help You Create Beautiful Classroom Visuals October 25, 2017 Over the last few years we reviewed and shared a wide variety of educational web tools and mobile apps teachers can use to create educational visuals, classroom posters, flyers, booklets and several other graphic types. One of the best tools that kept making it into each selection we create in this regard is Piktochart. This is a great web tool that allows you to design beautiful visuals to include in your instruction. Piktochart has recently added a number of interesting features such as extra text fonts, colours, more editing tools and most important of all, the ability to create long-form print-optimized graphics using a number of new templates designed specifically for this purpose. PiktoChart is simple and easy to use. It doesn’t require graphic design knowledge to operate it.
I think it is a great time saver for quizzes! I have never encountered any problems with it, and it gives you good data analysis.. by herendeen Jun 20