Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2024

A unique feature of Studies Weekly’s Social Studies is that students can cut up their publication copies and turn them into learning artifacts like posters, graphic organizers, and visual aids. After students make their artifacts, they can practice listening and speaking skills by using the visuals as teaching tools.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 11, 2015

During the planning process one must consider community outreach, budget allocations to improve existing infrastructure, policies, professional development (teacher and administrator), student trainings, and evaluation procedures (i.e. BYOD educational technology ICLE mobile learning mobile learning devices Professional Development'

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 17, 2017

To help achieve an ROI we increased the number of formal observations and evaluations, collected learning artifacts (lesson plans, assessments, student work, etc.) Our collective goal is to create an immersive experience that moves beyond the typical one and done professional development.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Given the challenges of engaging teachers in professional development this year, I suggest leveraging the coaches on your campus and in your district to offer a more personalized approach to professional learning. Just as with students, every teacher is unique. The coach can help teachers document parts of their lesson (e.g.,

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Creating Connections Because Studies Weekly’s print publications are consumable, students can create artifacts to demonstrate their learning by cutting the primary sources and other information out of their publications. As students physically create artifacts, they visibly represent their thinking, understanding, and skills.

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Edthena

JUNE 16, 2023

With these recorded video artifacts, teaching candidates reflected on their own teaching, as well as received feedback on their practices from peers and coaches. By engaging in ongoing cycles of video analysis and reflection, University of Alaska teaching candidates were empowered with ownership over their professional growth.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

If you can’t find one, don’t worry. Many museums offer online resources that you can use instead. For example, the Museum of Chinese in America in Chinatown, Manhattan, NY, hosts a MOCAKIDS Storytime program on Zoom every 2nd and 4th Thursday at 4 p.m.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2020

In 2016, I began exploring micro-credentials as a professional learning option for our district. As I started to build a pathway application for teacher leaders in our district, I realized that I could also use micro-credentials to develop MY capacity in my current role.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Ongoing professional development, constant review and analysis of successful attempts at the changes in learning opportunities and the increasing use of technology offer momentum." Bringing a technology agenda forward with the intention of improving student understanding and demonstrated success is essential.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Some of the Educators Rising micro-credentials’ submission requirements call for artifacts from classroom teaching, such as teaching videos. By pairing micro-credentials with TeachLivE, UCF is equipping its students with the ability to harness the power of technology to personalize their own professional development.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

According to the 2019 Hanover Research report “2019 Teacher Perspectives on Professional Development,” 92 percent of teachers reported that the most satisfying professional learning experiences were those which external partners provided. Not sure how to set a five-year plan? Here’s a free resource to help you get started.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 21, 2014

With all the many state mandates and district directed professional development, as well as time after school devoted to grading and lesson planning, in her mind and many others, time was not readily available. Who was I to disagree, as her words were stark fact.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Examples of Student Learning Artifacts created with Studies Weekly printed publications: I hope you find these resources helpful. The magazines can be folded, cut, glued, and made into assessment projects. We want your experience teaching with your Studies Weekly publications to be positive, successful, and joyful.

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Edthena

MARCH 18, 2022

Host Kevin Hogan and Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller spoke about how the AI Coach platform is transforming professional development for teachers, including how it can deliver “anytime anywhere professional development.” The second is the professional development. Pretty cool sort of stuff.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 8, 2013

He is now working on developing a student project where they will use iMovie to create artifacts of learning related to historical concepts later this year. I also used last year as an opportunity to work with my teachers and better articulate how to compile their learning portfolios.

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4QM Teaching

APRIL 30, 2023

We got some useful feedback, which will help us to set our agenda for professional development and materials acquisition. That rubric defined “rigor” as student engagement with primary source texts and artifacts. I noticed something strange, however. For classroom observations, they used a rubric, naturally.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

If possible, your group will share photos, videos, and other artifacts that reflect your work. The Hayward study group decided to “adopt the Historically Responsive Literacy Framework (HRLF) as something we want to develop lessons around to share from the Teaching for Black Lives perspective.”

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 8, 2024

Categories Corporate Educator Spotlight English Language Arts Lesson Plans Press Professional Development Science Social Studies Studies Weekly Online Summer School Teacher Tips Thinking on Education Tutorials Uncategorized Well-Being Recent Posts What Does the End of ESSER Funding Mean?

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

This is especially true of finding time and energy for our own professional development. There is a wide range of methods for teacher professional development to address distinct needs. The need to do “more with less,” or at least “more with the same,” requires us to optimize our time and produce the best results.

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Edthena

MARCH 30, 2021

As teachers gather video evidence and other artifacts from their classroom environments for feedback, those same artifacts can become the evidence for the micro-credentials, too.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

Competency-based performance is not the same as traditional professional development. Because the micro-credential requires professional reflection, artifacts, and evidence of learning and performance, it takes more time and thought to meet expectations. Lesson learned: Make instructions explicit and expect resubmissions.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 6, 2020

What needs to change is what types of artifacts you’re using as evidence of teaching and learning in order to perform teacher observations. What type of artifacts of distance teaching can be collected to assist teachers? What if you can’t meet face-to-face with your teachers anymore due to safety protocol?

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2018

In many districts, teachers are provided the same professional development regardless of their subject area, grade level, or personal goals. In a small school district with limited resources committed to meeting the needs of all our students, the professional development opportunities made available to us are often in tight supply.

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Create a Student Artifact Students can write about a favorite thing they learned or create a project about their learning, such as: a pop-up book, display tray, poster, or puppet to share with class. Encourage students to cut out pictures and words from their student edition for use in their creative artifacts of knowledge.

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4QM Teaching

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

I once participated in a professional development session in which we watched a video of a class of about fifteen eighth graders sitting in a circle talking about the U.S. In the earlier grades we are often looking at a pattern of behavior or an artifact. We want them to be moving forward in their thinking. constitution.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Often, the group came back with artifacts like tree core samples to share with their students when school starts in the fall. Researchers and scientists shared the ways different economic, infrastructure, and environmental factors are altering Louisiana’s coastline.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

As a former high-school social studies teacher and professional development specialist, I have found that connecting with cultural centers (e.g., They provide educators with access to historical records, narratives of interesting people in the community, and artifacts (e.g.,

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

The walls and shelves of this 106-year-old building are covered with authentic student learning artifacts. Today, step into any of Duquesne Elementary’s shared learning spaces and you will see students immersed in hands-on design work. Innovative Learning Spaces.

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Edthena

JUNE 16, 2021

According to Elena Aguilar , “The opportunity to reflect on an experience is professional development — and boosts resilience.” Self-reflection serves as a time to look back on your performance throughout the year (yes, your students’ also, but let’s focus on you): all the successes and shortcomings. Go forth and reflect.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Since online office hours will take place on a video-conferencing platform, a teacher can press record, and just like that, an artifact of a type of distance teaching has been created! Recording the artifact is one thing, but using this artifact to improve your practice is much more significant.

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Edthena

AUGUST 2, 2017

The Colorado Education Association (CEA) is partnering with Edthena to embed video observation and feedback into courses offered on COpilot, the state’s online professional learning platform. Now, with COpilot, educators across the state can experience video feedback as part of their professional development.

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Edthena

JANUARY 12, 2021

Pairing the power of video with the method of lesson study can drive the conversation around the professional vision of a school community. School leaders strive to center their school community around a professional vision. Video artifacts help confirm whether every educator interpreting the vision the same way.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

By aligning micro-credential stacks to the three core units of the “Learning Differences” MOOC-Ed, the Friday Institute provided educators the scaffolded support they needed to develop their classroom practice to one that honored student learning differences.

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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

Summer is a time that lots of teachers are attending trainings and professional development. And is there some artifact of student learning that I could look at to see whether or not I'm making progress?’ And if they get some of that evidence, they're willing to learn and they're willing to change practice.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Coaches, principals, or PLC leaders should also define which artifact representing their pre-collaboration reflection teachers will take to the next PLC meeting to be grounded in data. School administrators should consider how teachers will know what to look for in student or teacher actions that is aligned to their goal.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Consensus emerged over the power of micro-credentials and the rich artifacts they produce when the micro-credentials are backed by rigorous research. “We We find artifacts are best when relevant and solve real problems in the classroom,” said Coffman. CEUs and Other Professional Development Credit.

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Edthena

JANUARY 15, 2021

The type of feedback that is provided after a pop in will end up being very similar to the type provide from a virtual walkthrough, and in most cases, will be able to be even more targeted since the administrator has an actual artifact of the instruction.

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