Edthena

DECEMBER 7, 2015

To connect each painting to the broader story of the exhibit, the museum curator uses labels to highlight information about each artifact. One data point won’t tell the whole story, and a collection of classroom videos needs to be linked together using the common language of a teaching framework. Data aligned to professional skills.

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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. Co-teaching and Model Lessons. Just as with students, every teacher is unique.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

But sometimes video self reflection mixed with other types of evidence analysis can improve the professional development experience. Explorations enable all organizations to implement research-informed strategies for evidence-based learning within a professional development cycle. Share non-video artifacts.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2024

How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School May 6, 2024 • By Studies Weekly In elementary school, students learn and refine an immeasurable number of skills. They develop math, reading, spelling, grammar, and writing skills that teachers measure and monitor.

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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. With the necessary funds secured, the work of creating exciting new teaching and learning spaces could begin. Innovative Learning Spaces. It gives students opportunities they wouldn’t have at other schools.”.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

During the transition to online and home-based instruction, teachers and administrators turned to instructional technology coaches for support in the meaningful, effective use of technology to ensure learning continuity and minimize teaching and learning disruptions.

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Edthena

JUNE 16, 2023

When providing professional learning opportunities, teachers can’t simply be on the receiving end – they must engage constructively for truly effective instructional growth. How can teacher prep programs offer the type of learning experiences that support aspiring teachers’ inquiry into their teaching practice?

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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.” Pretty cool sort of stuff. You can see the entire transcript of the conversation below.

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EdTech Professional Development Artifacts Teaching 98

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. If students can Google an answer, is this something that we should be teaching?

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Artifacts Professional Development Leadership Lesson Plan 98

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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Teacher summer camp,” Aimee Hollander, an assistant professor and director of Nicholls State University’s Center for Teaching Excellence, jokingly called it. McMillan, who teaches in a rural southeast part of the state, said the geography of her school is one reason she applied to the fellowship.

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Edthena

JANUARY 15, 2021

For example, curious what the first five minutes of distanced teaching is looking like across all math classrooms? Ultimately the person observing is able to identifying trends in teaching and learning across the set of classrooms. Now you can find out. Like any initiative, it will take planning to implement successfully.

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Artifacts Elementary School Teaching Professional Development 117

Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures. As you teach students about a culture some may be unfamiliar with, it can pique their curiosity and renew their interest. If you can’t find one, don’t worry. Many museums offer online resources that you can use instead.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Each year, the Zinn Education Project hosts Teaching for Black Lives study groups across the United States. Using the Rethinking Schools book Teaching for Black Lives , educators explore how to teach about racism, resistance, and joy in free, teacher-led professional learning communities.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 8, 2024

How to Teach Children Goal Setting Jan. Track Goals with Checkpoints and Journals One way to teach your students to track their goals is to have them draw a timeline with little checkpoints along the way of things to accomplish. Using checkpoints is a great opportunity to teach your students that small steps can lead to big changes.

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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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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Some of the Educators Rising micro-credentials’ submission requirements call for artifacts from classroom teaching, such as teaching videos. Gaining access to students and coordinating permission in our local schools to record our students teaching can be challenging.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

The Future Ready Librarians ® initiative has already changed the conversation about ways in which teacher librarians lead, teach, and support innovative learning in schools. Competency-based performance is not the same as traditional professional development. Bobbie Lowe Teacher Librarian. Spring 2020 Submission Window Open.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 6, 2020

New ways of teaching hybrid or remote during Covid-19 can be challenging to navigate. Yes, there are technical challenges, but there are also real needs to help redefine what “good teaching and learning” means in a context that doesn’t look the same as it did last year. Now more than ever. Pre-recorded.

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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

Justin Reich now teaches digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but his first job was teaching a short wilderness medicine course. EdSurge: Many schools have looked to bring in technology to help improve teaching. That is the main way that teaching and learning actually changes in schools. …

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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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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Competency-based by their very nature, micro-credentials require learners to provide authentic artifacts (videos, photos, and/or text) that clearly showcase active and situation-specific evidence of implementation. 6] “Learner‐Centered Professional Development.” Professional learning in the learning profession.

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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

MARCH 30, 2021

Gathering evidence of teaching and learning is the core of the Edthena experience, so micro-credentials are a natural extension to the professional learning process happening inside of Edthena. Evidence inside Edthena can range from videos of teaching to unit plans to sample student work.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 30, 2020

This creates opportunities for confirming that students are developing the correct understandings from the lessons. Online office hours are one form of distance teaching that teachers are implementing as a result of the pandemic. Like with many other forms of distance teaching, one positive is the ease of recording capabilities.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Take advantage of your resources like lesson plans, teaching strategies, printables, and more. High-Impact Teaching Strategies There are high-impact teaching strategies recommended throughout your Studies Weekly Teacher Edition. Your Teacher’s Edition is worth its weight in gold!

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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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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 26, 2023

They can also cut out pictures to make foldables or other learning artifacts that help them think about and show what they are learning. Then, they can house their artifacts in their notebooks also. These powerful strategies teach students “how to support one another in the journey of learning and life,” Fisher concludes.

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Artifacts Social Studies Lesson Plan Professional Development 52

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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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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Edthena

MAY 20, 2022

The AI Coach platform was recently featured on the Teaching Learning Leading K12 podcast. Since 2011, Adam has overseen the evolution of Edthena from a paper-based prototype into a research-informed and patented platform used by schools, districts, teacher training programs, and professional development providers.

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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. Reading primary sources sounds like the authentic activity of professional historians. Plan it out.

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Within our classes, we have students at various levels, so we, of course, need to focus on the basics of good teaching strategies and not just hand them the text and hope for the best. Good teaching strategies support not only our English Language Learners, but all of our students. So what can this look like?

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 7, 2024

7, 2024 • By Debbie Bagley Play-based learning is a teaching method that gives children opportunities to explore and engage in joyful hands-on activities. Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin Incorporating playful learning opportunities in the classroom has so many benefits.

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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. DISCOURSE ABOUT NARRATION: TALKING ABOUT QUESTION ONE We always start our teaching by answering Question One, “What happened?”. constitution.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As with anything you have teachers do, including following a reflection protocol, you’ll need to provide the supports and structures to enable the critical and complex thinking work required for examining teaching. As Jim Knight says, watching their own teaching on video gives teachers access to “ a clear picture of their current reality.”

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Artifacts Professional Development Teaching Education 52

Edthena

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Courtney Groskin are Learning Coaches with the Office of Professional Development in St. I know what it feels like to want to be the best teacher you can be and not necessarily have someone that you can access to say, like, “Hey, how do you teach inquiry style learning in a middle school classroom or high school classroom?”

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