Every year, school districts around the country waste a tremendous amount of time and money on ineffective professional development. The traditional model of “sit and get,” where a one-size-fits-all approach is utilized, yields abhorrent results. Ask teachers from typical school districts in America their thoughts on traditional in-service time, and the feedback won’t be pretty. [...]
A growing number of school districts have embraced Google Apps for Education as their cloud-based e-mail and content-management platform. But how these districts approach the effort—and the challenges and problems they encounter—differ widely. Valuable lessons in how to implement Google Apps for Education (commonly know as Google Docs) can be learned from Crook County High [...]
New York technology teacher and trainer Rob Zdrojewski is flipping the flipped classroom–or, rather, his students are. Using a video technology known as screencasting, Zdrojewski, who will host two workshops at the upcoming FETC Conference in January, turns the popular phrase on its head by asking his students at Amherst Middle School to create instructional [...]
The Boulder Valley School District has three people assigned to help teachers at 55 schools figure out how to integrate technology into their classrooms. Looking for a better way to use limited resources, a committee of teachers, principals and community members spent a year developing a vision and researching programs in school districts nationwide. [...]
More than 250 teachers from Bath area schools will attend a learning technology conference Friday in Augusta in an effort to make the best use of hundreds of computers deployed within the district. Dean Emmerson, Regional School Unit 1’s technology coordinator, said this is the first time in the history of the conference that a [...]
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Give DonorsChoose a try. DonorsChoose.org is an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students in need. Here’s how it works: public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a poetry writing unit, to violins for a school recital, to microscope [...]
Explore 21st century learning concepts Intel® Teach helps K–12 teachers of all subjects learn to engage students with digital learning, including digital content, Web 2.0, social networking, and online tools and resources. Intel Teach professional development empowers teachers to integrate technology effectively into their existing curriculum, focusing on their students’ problem solving, critical thinking, and collaboration, [...]
YouTube is looking to give some much-needed celebrity status to the most engaging teachers in the world. They’re conducting an Internet-wide competition of the best video lessons, which will be judged by an all-star panel of online educators, such as Sal Khan of Khan Academy. “The rise of online educational videos is giving learners access [...]
ShoreTel announced earlier this week it partnered with Scottsdale (Ariz.) Unified School District to deploy the eCoach, a first-of-its-kind mobile learning and technology training bus that will be used to train teachers and enhance students’ learning. While numerous school districts across the nation have utilized ShoreTel’s communication solutions, Scottsdale Unified has taken this one step [...]
The CORE Education eFellowship Awards recognise innovative elearning practice by New Zealand teachers. The Fellowship celebrates teaching excellence in an elearning context and aims to raise public and educational community awareness of the benefits of eLearning. Once inducted into the Fellowship, Fellows will provide ongoing, community-focused leadership in the field. In any one year up [...]
Today, every teacher needs to be in charge of his or her own professional development, if for no other reason than district budgets require everyone to be so much more creative. However, there needs to be a balance between the formal and informal. Formal professional development would be workshops, conferences, and college classes. Informal learning [...]
