Remove Lesson Plan Remove Professional Development Remove Teaching
article thumbnail

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. Part of the fun of dining at a restaurant is choosing your food.

article thumbnail

How the Substitute Teacher Shortage Is Impacting Teacher Professional Development

ED Surge

It’s September 2021 and as one of the district’s instructional technology content leaders, I have finally been given the green light to host in-person professional development (PD) for this group of eager teachers after months of meeting online. Teachers trickle in as I set out muffins and candy at each table.

educators

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Roadmap to a Job-Embedded Growth Model

A Principal's Reflections

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. By contract all teachers had to teach five periods. Who was I to disagree, as her words were stark fact.

Artifacts 312
article thumbnail

Discovery Education's Common Core Academies

A Principal's Reflections

As a trusted educational partner, Discovery Education has worked with thousands of educational leaders to transform teaching and learning. Educators will then utilize this knowledge to develop CCSS lesson plans and assessment tasks for immediate use in their ELA or content area classroom. Click HERE to register to attend.

K-12 211
article thumbnail

Quantifying Innovative Practices

A Principal's Reflections

As I engage with districts and schools regularly, they frequently inquire about ways to gauge the outcomes and efficacy of their innovative strategies, such as BYOD, 1:1, blended and personalized learning, classroom and school redesign, branding, makerspaces, and professional development.

Artifacts 268
article thumbnail

The Growing Potential of Micro-Credentials

A Principal's Reflections

Educators could then use those badges to build and communicate their own reputations to their colleagues and to senior staff, capturing a complete picture of their own professional development for others to see. Educators should be comfortable teaching, working, and learning in an increasingly connected global digital society.

Pedagogy 225
article thumbnail

Vocabulary Lesson Plan

Studies Weekly

Vocabulary Lesson Plan Sept. 2011) Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching (What Works for Special-Needs Learners). September 2009) The Art and Science of Teaching / Six Steps to Better Vocabulary Instruction. Frayer Model References: Archer, A. Hughes, C. The Guilford Press. Urrutia, K., Buenger, A.,