Five Strategies To Help Teachers Revive Reviews
April 24, 2015 by Network Support · Leave a Comment
Is review time a big bore for your students? Add a little fun to this exercise with strategies that will spice up things, revive interest, and ensure retention!
Teachers face a variety of challenges on a day-to-day basis, but perhaps their biggest challenge is helping students retain what they learn. One way to ensure […]
Teacher Tools & Resources
April 22, 2015 by Network Support · Leave a Comment
Tools:
Twiddla
Twiddla is a real-time online collaboration tool.
Today’s meet
Today’s Meet is a back-channel chat platform for classroom teachers and learners.
Refme
A web tool and mobile app that helps to automate citations, reference lists and bibliographies.
Resources:
Science Friday
Science Friday offers lesson plans, videos, readings, hands-on activities and several other materials ideal for classroom use.
Math Goodies
Resources, games, lessons and worksheets […]
How Can Teachers Use Cloud-based Applications To Benefit Their Teaching Practice?
April 17, 2015 by Network Support · Leave a Comment
“Cloud” is a metaphor for the “internet.” In simple terms, cloud based office, or “cloud computing” means that your office applications or data, software, and computing needs are stored, accessed, and operate over the “cloud” or the internet.
If you think of cloud computing as a service where you share your data with strangers over the internet, think […]
How Can Teachers Evaluate Websites Before Introducing Them To Students?
April 17, 2015 by Network Support · Leave a Comment
As teachers, you may look to the Internet for research, lesson preparation and so on. It is important for you to first understand how to evaluate websites to make sure you are using accurate and reliable information from the Internet. Your students may use the Internet to look for information for their school […]
What are the 5 Ways in which teachers can partner with parents?
April 13, 2015 by Network Support · Leave a Comment
Partnering at school is an excellent option for teachers to begin getting parents involved in their child’s learning, especially in the elementary grades and where the classroom teacher may need extra assistance. The best way to ensure parental involvement is through encouragement and a warm approach from the teacher. The attitudes and actions of […]
How can teachers use the “Language Experience Approach” for ELLs?
April 13, 2015 by Network Support · Leave a Comment
The United States is rapidly becoming more diverse in terms of culture and language. It is possible to walk down the halls of a school and hear several different languages being spoken by its students. With these learners and their languages come diverse cultural perspectives and background experiences. Teachers therefore face challenges both […]
How Do You Integrate Other Subjects Into Your Classroom?
April 9, 2015 by Network Support · Leave a Comment
Can Math be part of a Language Arts Class? Or can a Math teacher, ask students to write a journal? As we watch education evolve in our country, we can see that teachers are moving towards an integrated educational approach. It’s natural that when we go to the supermarket, we use both reading […]
Teacher Tools & Resources
April 8, 2015 by Network Support · Leave a Comment
Tools:
Go class
Transform instruction time into a hands-on participatory learning experience.
Chalk up
Annotate files and documents they receive from their students.
Propagate
Build personalized literacy instruction for K-12.
Resources:
Mastermath
Provides all kinds of math resources.
Arkive
Discover more about animals and science.
Vocabulary.co.il
Learn new words, vocabulary and Literature terms.
How can teachers create emotionally safe classrooms?
April 2, 2015 by Network Support · Leave a Comment
You may have encountered times or heard of times where terrible events have happened to school campuses. Things like a shooting or other horrific events may have happened to a student’s family, which are made public. What can you do during such times where students have experienced trauma? How can you secure the […]
What Ethical Boundaries do Teachers Need to Maintain?
April 2, 2015 by Network Support · Leave a Comment
It is important for teachers, as professionals, to be culturally aware of how various habits and behaviors such as touch, eye contact, conversation topics, styles and personal space habits differ from person to person. Such awareness helps to set and maintain boundaries efficiently. There are many types of boundaries that we may encounter while […]
