What are the Benefits of Peer Assessment?
As educators, we have access to various resources that help in designing lessons, assessments and remediation. The same is true with a peer assessment. There are no “cookie cutter” approaches to these assessments.
The assessments are not limited to multiple-choice answers, short answers or essay assessments. Instead peer assessments include the usage of a variety of [...]
How can I use Document Cameras in the Classroom?
A document camera is a camera that is hooked on to an LCD projector, allowing the user to place things under the camera so that it appears on the big screen for everyone to see. This tool has a lot of potential to aid teaching in the classroom. This technology can be used for different [...]
Positive Behavior Intervention Strategies
It’s important for us all to reflect and remember our greatest victories within our profession. This helps us to be aware of what created the success and examine practices for improvement. It’s also a phenomenal way to gently remind ourselves when we’re feeling a little down: “I’ve done something similar like this before, I can [...]
What is Backward Design in Education?
For many years, external and standardized testing molded design learning experiences that would bring students toward mastery of what was on associated tests. However, as teachers were not the architects of these tests, there was sometimes a disconnect between the tests and the reality of the educational terrain (relevance to student and meaningful expectations).
Backward design [...]
Teacher Resources, Tools & Giveaways for the week ( Apr 21 – 28, 2012)
TOOLS
Lesson Writer
Create lesson plans and instructional materials for teaching English language skills from any reading passage.
Shelfster
Online tool to capture information and images while creating and sharing documents.
Festisite Money
Create personalized money bills.
RESOURCES
Water Quality
Help students determine the best water quality by finding the pH value.
Film Canister Kaleidoscope
An activity to help students understand the concept of symmetry.
Forces
Reinforce the [...]
How do I Improve Long Term Memory in Students?
It is possible to improve long term memory. In a process scientists call long-term potentiation, some memories are encoded and strengthened (and others weakened) each and every time the repetition of a new experience causes neural firing across synapses between nerve cells.
Practice, practice, and more practice makes the bonds between surrounding cells increasingly stronger and [...]
Autism Awareness
It’s Autism Awareness month and I’ve been thinking about what awareness really means. Does it mean just knowing that there’s a condition called autism? There has to be more to it than that. As teachers, we need to “know” not only about what autism is but also how we can integrate or accommodate a child who has autism in our [...]
How can I use Word Banks to help Students with Dyslexia?
Students with dyslexia make a lot of spelling mistakes while writing assignments. They may spell a word differently in different parts of the text and when shown both the words, may struggle to choose which one is correct. They also tend to spell words as they sound. For example, they may spell learn as ‘lern.’
The [...]
Teacher Resources, Tools & Giveaways for the week ( Apr 14 – 21, 2012)
TOOLS
Graphwords
Find related terms in the form of interwoven webs.
Knovio
Convert PowerPoint slides into video presentations, on your browser.
Digital Story Telling
Learn to create movies and slideshows from photos and videos.
RESOURCES
Diamante Poem
Creatively improve grammar skills.
DNA
Teach about DNA in your class.
Zero pairs and Manipulatives
Teach the use of manipulative and zero pairs in integer subtraction through this video.
GIVEAWAYS OF THE WEEK
The [...]
Understanding ADHD in the Classroom
So, wondering as I approached this week’s newsletter editorial how I might combine introducing our new course: Understanding ADHD and asking you to PLEASE let your friends, colleagues and fellow teachers know about PLB.
Is it just me (yes, it might be) or are we all a little ADHD (at least sometimes). Seriously, as I review [...]
