by Jennifer Carey | Jun 25, 2013 | The How of 21st Century Teaching, The Teaching Life, Voices, Web Tools That Deepen Learning
Evernote can be a great application for teachers, both to keep yourself coordinated and to facilitate student learning. School-based technology director Jennifer Carey talks educators through getting started and highlights several ways she’s used Evernote to “not only make my life a little easier as a teacher, but to help my students and my classroom stay more focused and organized.”
by Rachel Small | Mar 12, 2013 | The Teaching Life, Voices
It’s like John Dewey told us. Positive professional growth and positive student growth will not happen without learning and practicing the art of reflection, says Rachel Small. It’s a process we must trust. It’s time we must invest.
by Susan Lucille Davis | Feb 28, 2013 | Local Professional Collaboration, Passion Based Learning, The Teaching Life, Voices
As professional educators, how can we re-awaken the desire and capacity for learning on our own? Teacher leader Susan Lucille Davis suggests we revive a much beloved learning tool from childhood: Show and Tell.
by Lisa Noble | Jan 29, 2013 | Personal Learning Networks, The Teaching Life, Voices
Twitter’s power as a personal learning network made coming back to school after the winter break more tolerable for Lisa Noble and her Canadian elementary kids. The highlights included tweets from space, transmitted by astronaut and social media maven Chris Hadfield, a Canadian astronaut who landed on the international space station just before Christmas. And then there was littleBits…
by Sr Geralyn Schmidt | Dec 20, 2012 | Less Teacher, More Student, Making The Shift, The Teaching Life, Voices
The way teachers teach their students has, I believe, a direct correlation to the way in which they learn themselves. We have all read in the latest teaching journals that teachers of today have to be devoted to lifelong learning. But what does that mean, really? What elements affect teacher learning and then in turn affect how that teacher teaches?
by Dolores Gende | Dec 11, 2012 | Making The Shift, The How of 21st Century Teaching, The Teaching Life, Voices
Physics teacher Dolores Gende is shifting her teaching to a student-driven learning model by selecting some areas of focus each year. This year it’s assessment. “I see assessment as an ongoing process that informs me and my students and gauges the progression of learning. I partner with my students, and they appreciate not being constrained by fixed deadlines and dead-end quiz scores. They prefer the ample opportunities we create to demonstrate they can accomplish all of our Learning Objectives.”