Data & Assessment
This session will focus on creating a cloud-based Google classroom that the teacher can use to create online student portfolios. The session will also cover advanced sharing and organization skills for digital work.
We will demonstrate how to use ebooks to create engaging, high-interest lessons for guided reading, shared reading, and writing instruction. As a bonus, we will show examples of how to gather formative assessment data from these lessons. RESOURCES
How to use Plickers for quick assessments and exit tickets. We will use Plickers, make questions and explore Plickers for quick assessments. RESOURCES
We will walk teachers through the process of analyzing student errors and show them how to teach students to approach a multiple choice question and successfully answer it. Studies show that looking at why multiple answer questions are wrong, is more beneficial than looking at why they are correct. RESOURCES
This session will show teachers how to upload documents, make assignments to groups of students, and review assignments using Seesaw. Come learn all about Seesaw from the teacher's perspective.
Look Who's Talking Now will feature beginner strategies for facilitating academic discussions in the classroom. In this session, we will present strategies for creating roles and roles for discussion, creating erudite questions to ask in the discussion, as well as conversation warm-ups. RESOURCES
Look Who's Talking Too will feature more advanced strategies and activities to implement in the classroom such as Pinwheel, Socratic SmackDown, and Fishbowl. RESOURCES
No more boring presentations, no more conventional videos, no more boring vocabulary practice..help your students enhance their creativity by using different apps one by one or smashing them to create very original products. You will learn different ideas to help students practice vocabulary, concepts or create very original presentations while having fun.
Changing the Game: The Impact of Teaching Through Stations
We will be sharing how our classroom environment and teaching style have changed and how this change has impacted student growth. We will model our best practices by having participants rotating through modified stations.
Are you looking for more digital tools to add to your toolbox to get your students engaged and thinking outside of the box? Discovery Education's Spotlight On Strategies (S.O.S.) can help. Join me as we explore some unique ways to keep your digital learners engaged in the content.
Tricks and Magic for Encouraging Excitement in iReady
Providing teachers with strategies and ideas to help them engage their students with I Ready. ie - posters, competitions, data reflections/reports.
Do you want to be more tech-savvy? Often, as you learn about one tool, it changes or a better one comes along to take its place. This session will give you an opportunity to learn about a variety of tech tools that can seamlessly fit into your classroom no matter what subject you teach. Some of the tools we will focus on are Canvas, Insert Learning, Adobe Spark, Canva, Jigsaw Planet, Caption This, Icon Board, Google Slides, and more. After all is said and done, you will walk away with a gold mine of resources that are relevant, meaningful, and fulfilling.
Participants rotate through stations and get a hands-on experience of what coding is and how it can be applied to their classrooms. RESOURCES
Come One, Come All...Workstations for All!
Make it and take it centers! You will see centers for ELA and math that we use during center time in our classrooms. Participants make at least 1 center to take back with them to use in their classrooms! RESOURCES
Gradecam: Your Virtual Assistant
You always need an extra set of hands for grading papers. Let us show you how to use and implement Gradecam in a classroom. See an example of how it grades quickly by taking a test on random facts and watch it get graded in this session. See what data you can collect to help you make teaching decisions. RESOURCES
Impact of Technology on the EC Student
Avenues of technology that can be implemented using modifications to motivate EC students within the classroom. RESOURCES