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How Choice Boards Energize Teachers for Professional Development and Video Reflection

Edthena

It’s possible to create this type of experience within the professional development realm, too. Choice boards, a strategy sometimes used for students in classrooms, can be reimagined to create a menu of options within teacher professional development. How to use choice boards for teacher professional development?

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Edtech Company Encourages Its Employees to Volunteer as Substitute Teachers

ED Surge

And at least one edtech company is making a similar offer: Instructure, the learning management system provider that runs Canvas, is encouraging its employees to volunteer as substitute teachers for districts. And it created a program to train administrators and non-permanent teachers to use the company’s platform when the teacher is out.

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How to Build Strong Relationships During the Edtech Purchasing Process

Digital Promise

This blog post is the first of a two-part series discussing relationship building in edtech selection and purchasing. In this first blog post, we’ll address how educators can build and maintain good working relationships with edtech developers. The request for new edtech] doesn’t just come from a want or a wish.”

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How Can Teachers Prepare Students for an AI-Driven Future?

ED Surge

It is essential for educators to tap into professional development (PD) opportunities to advance their understanding of how to use AI to improve the classroom experience. I follow several edtech accounts that offer ideas on using AI in the classroom, and I adjust the ideas to my different classes.

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How Schools Are Coaching — or Coaxing — Teachers to Use ChatGPT

ED Surge

So education leaders are investing in new training and professional development for teachers on the best use cases for AI. When we roll out hardware or one-to-one edtech in schools, we need to purchase laptops and carts and wireless access points. For example, the use of AI “can start with a two-week lesson plan.

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Want Your Teachers to See Great Teaching? Quickly Build a Teaching Video Library

Edthena

Teachers can search your video library by lesson objectives or standards, and they can filter to specific grades and subjects, too. Forget scouring YouTube and welcome to your district’s secure video library hosted by Edthena, where you can curate model teaching videos to your professional development heart’s content.

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Have you seen “What Works” for your schools? Amplify success with a video library of teaching

Edthena

Each video can also have supporting documents like lesson plans and other materials relevant to understanding the classroom context. This ensures other teachers who watch the video later can quickly jump to the most relevant parts. We’ve made each organization’s library searchable by grade, subject, and tags.

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