Posts tagged professional development
Vicki Davis
Cool Cat Teacher on Tumblr
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howdoyouplay.net is a a fun website with tons of teambuilding, classroom, ice breaker, and party game activities. I have a book I use for this, but see that this has many of the activities I’ve used before here already. Cool site. Spread among those who teach or do professional development.
(via How Do You Play)
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Five Learning Models (by Ken Whytock)
Five Learning Models by Ken Whytock from “Professional Learning in effective schools” from Victoria Australia including: Peer observation, study groups, case discussions, lesson study, and examination of student work. I feel that online connections are missing - where is the PLN building? All of these are internal to the school. Just wondering if there is room for a sixth?
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If you run a computer lab, you would do well to train your students how to use a portable fire extinguisher. This training video is one you can use. Forward this to teachers and those with computers, in particular.
How to Use a Portable Fire Extinguisher Training Video (by FireEquipManufAssoc)
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Burlington High School Principal's Blog: Summer Edcamp Session One Recap - We Flipped Our Edcamp and Started With A Smackdown
One of the most popular sessions at many Edcamps is the Web 2.0 Smackdown, a session that is usually held at the end of the day where attendees share their favorite web 2.0 tools/resources. However, due to the schedules of some of the attendees who could not stay for the whole time, we put the smackdown first and it was a great generator of conversation/topics for the rest of the day.
I like the list of resources this principal put up on his blog, as well as liking the idea of doing some version of a Web 2.0 Smackdown as part of a PD. I know some of the teachers in my building are woefully unaware of the web resources out there, and as a result, so are many of the students who just wouldn’t necessarily think to look for these types of resources.
How a pd for teachers started with a smackdown. Great strategy! I have to teach you all how to do web 2 Kung Fu!
