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Remixing High School English
The English curriculum provides numerous opportunities for inquiry, student choice, and a wide variety of texts. How can we provide these opportunities to our students? This webinar will explore how we can meet these expectations, including an approach that combines inquiry and spiraling, lots of student choice, and a plethora of texts. It will also …
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Get Kids Talking using Tech Tools!
Let’s get students talking, explaining, creating and documenting their own learning! In this webinar, participants will learn about four iPad apps that we consider to be the most powerful and easy to use. These apps will provide learners with opportunities to practice essential skills for oral language development, print representation and storytelling skills. Use: Explain …
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Beyond Solving Word Problems: Establishing and Supporting a Problem-Solving Culture in your Math Classroom
Problem solving needs to permeate the mathematical program…[and] is seen as the main strategy for teaching mathematics. (Guide to Effective Instruction) Unfortunately, problem solving is often equated with and limited to solving word problems. Problem solving can be so much more! Join the conversation and discuss how we can put our students in problematic situations …
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Talking…Changes Everything In the Math Class: Assessing Math Through Observations and Conversations
In this webinar, participants will be learning to gather good mathematics assessment data through observations and conversations. They will learn how technological tools can be used to gather evidence of student thinking. They will see why assessing mathematics is about more than just tests or summative tasks. Audience: Grades K-8 Resources: Contact Matthew Oldridge Twitter: …
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Getting Started with Play and Inquiry
In this webinar, participants will be able to: set the stage for a successful play and inquiry-based classroom by examining the classroom environment, schedule, and partnership between students, parents, and other educators in the room; begin with inquiry-based learning by looking at the inquiry process, provocations, and observations (noticing and naming the learning); document and …