Preparing Students to Present

Our year 7 students have a couple of major presentations this semester – in English and Science. The points in this infographic are both simple and pertinent. I hope to put this infographic up in each year 7 home classroom to serve as a reminder to both teachers and students

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Students will at some point be required to give a presentation. If the students are prepared, they are more likely to be comfortable. Here are 27 ways to help prepare students for successful presentations. The main thing I left out was to create an open,team environment… where  mistakes = learning…. and every presentation is a success.

What do you do to prepare?

~Mia

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Student Centered Instructional Methods

Another one of Mia Macmeekin’s great infographics. This one offers inspiration to teachers with a range of 28 different ideas for promoting active learning in the classroom situation. These suggestions are general in nature so they can be applied to various types of lessons and learning areas. There are brief statements included to give starters to teachers for planning lessons.

Students are the focus in in the learning processes mentioned here. They involve individual learning methods, group work and communication between students and some include using various technologies.

This is a great overview different methodologies that could make any classroom management more inclusive and welcoming to all students.

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I’m a teacher. Now what do I do?

There are several ways to engage learners in the classroom. Here are a few ideas if you get stuck.

Additional resources:

Click to access Chapter%204.pdf

http://teaching.uncc.edu/learning-resources/articles-books/best-practice/instructional-methods/150-teaching-methods

https://www.csn.edu/pages/2359.asp

http://www1.appstate.edu/~wertsmg/teachmeth.htm

~Mia

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What makes a good teacher in 2016

We have recently had parent teacher conferences, some professional learning activities and staff appraisals, for a number of our teachers, occur at this time each year. This has prompted some discussions about what teachers do and what should they do.

I found the following infographic interesting and thought it might form the basis for further discussions. It would be interesting to hear what my colleagues think about what attributes are need to be a good teacher in today’s schools and what it will take to be so in the future.

Find more education infographics on e-Learning Infographics

Useful Links

   by  Brian Metcalfe 

• Digital Storytelling – Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything “Digital storytelling is one way for students and teachers to share their knowledge. This page includes links to support the use of digital storytelling for both teaching and learning. “

• When We All Teach Text Structures, Everyone Wins | Cult of Pedagogy How to teach text structures for better reading comprehension and improved retention. Teachers of history, science, and other subjects are now expected to weave literacy instruction into their teaching of content. But how should they do that? What are the most effective ways to help students learn to read challenging content-area texts? This article breaks down the research behind explicit teaching of text structures and includes a video that shows how to do it (Great for content-area literacy).

• 10 Ways to Integrate Google Drawings in Your Teaching ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning “Here is a step by step visual guide to help you learn how to use Drawings  to create posters.”

• Morphing into a 21st Century Teacher (updated) | An Ethical Island Teachers play a crucial role in developing 21st century skills in their students. If they are going to do this, they need to have a certain set of characteristics or skills and model for the students. This infographic by Mia MacMeekin lists 27 ways to be the 21st century educator.

• 16 Pinteresting Ways Educators Use Pinterest – PikeMall Tech Ideas for teachers.

• From The Archives: “Five ways to get kids to want to read and write” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… A reminder about a well-written article with practical advice for parents and teachers

• Literacy in the Digital Age – Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything Kathy Schrock’s page features some wonderful links to many sites that help to explain the key literacies that are part of today’s literacy landscape. Well organised under clear headings, these offer a great resource for educators and offer many opportunities for classroom inclusion.

• Hey guys, do you know what kind of reader are you? – BookLikes This infographic features six kinds of readers together with a short description on each. When I looked at the categories I find that I am a bit of a cross between a couple of these.

• Fan Fiction Takes Flight Among Teens | School Library Journal An interesting piece about fan fiction. It hexpalins what it is and discusses the development of fanfiction, some of the better known fanfic sites and also names some well-known authors who have written faction in the past..

• Free Technology for Teachers: 7 Free Edmodo Apps to Try This Year “Edmodo a good system for organizing and sharing content with students. The single log-in aspect of Edmodo gives your students access to excellent tools without having to keep track of separate user names and passwords.” Seven free Edmodo apps are briefly explained and linked in this post.

• Coding for Kids Revisited | Edutopia An annotated list of six resources that could be used for coding with primary school students (5-11). They are all free and provide students with opportunities to be exposed to programming.

• 18 Useful cybersafety tips for teenagers – Generation Next | A Social Enterprise dedicated to protecting and enhancing the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Young People and their Community Practical, simple no-nonsense tips for parents and teachers to use with young people

• Spezify – Visual Search & Inspiration Spezify is a visual search engine. It gives related concepts at the top of the page and then finds images, definitions, quotes, symbols and sites related to the specified search. To limit some of the results you can click on the tools icon and take out some of the social networking sites. NOTE: Some of the search results may include ‘M’ rated content.

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Useful links

  by  Ken Whytock 

• Dr Seuss Stories online | Smore Simple little videos accompany readings

• 4 Powerful BYOD Apps For The Disconnected Classroom – Edudemic The four tools mentioned are free and available for smartphones, tablets and laptop/desktop computers.This means that anyone can use them to create or complete work or connect with others. These are dynamic and comprehensive tools that can improve teaching and learning in the classroom. The tools discussed are: Edmodo, Curriculet, ClassDojo and Khan Academy.

• Group Reading with Google Documents – YouTube “How to use Google Documents for group reading in the classroom.” by Richard Byrne. Useful video on how to go about task.

• 10 Online Alternatives to PowerPoint for Creating Great Presentations A useful list of online alternatives that let you create interesting presentations on any device. By storing them in the cloud allows you to work on them wherever you are and whatever device you have. It is also very easy to share them or embed into other sites. They do not all have some of the flashier animations of PowerPoint but are still visually interesting.

• Strategic Directions for School Libraries From Judy O’Connell – Looking at how education libraries will best serve their communities in 2015.

• Teacher Infographics | An Ethical Island | Page 2 Infographic identifying 27 ways to be an effective classroom teacher

• Online Discussion Tips. | An Ethical Island Infographic about online student discussion boards. Tips for teachers to get the best responses from students.

• So you Want to be an Effective teacher? | An Ethical Island Ways to be an effective teacher in the classroom Infographic

• Infographic: “Tips For Teachers On Family Engagement” | Engaging Parents In School… Post links to the entire downloadable infographic developed by the PTA. Positive, useful advice.

• The Complete Guide to Twitter Lingo Useful guide with longer explanations.

• 5 Things Innovative Schools Do Differently – A.J. Juliani The 5 points are not complex but the implementation of each in schools has always proved more difficult. The point about having the students actively use technology and demonstrate their learning in real time is a great idea and well made.

• New Handy Chart on The Difference Between Projects and Project-based Learning ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning A useful chart comparing project-based learning in classrooms to simply doing projects.

• http://unicefdayforchildren.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/MG-creative-writing-FINAL1.pdf A document (PDF) written especially for UNICEF by Australia Ambassador & popular children’s author Morris Gleitzman. It incliudes 5 tips to inspire students to read and write their own stories or articles. This is part of an activity kit with information for teachers to use, including frameworks and sample pieces for them to use with students.

• How mobile developers are using games to help the victims of cyberbullying | GamesBeat | Games | by Jeff Grubb

• Reflection in the Learning Process, Not As An Add On | Langwitches Blog A very comprehensive post about how reflection supports and deepens the student learning process.It is offers many different tools as examples for reflecting, so that a student can choose the one that suits them best and use it later in their studies as a learning strategy. I have used mindmapping effectively as pre-post “tests” before and after a unit, and it is wonderful to see students realize how much they learned during the unit. It is one way of making learning more meaningful for them “

• Free Technology for Teachers: Teaching Literary Terms With Comics “An explanation about using “Storyboard That” to create comic strips to help students understand literary terms. Just part of the lessons created to help students understand the creative writing process.”

• Free Technology for Teachers: Educators App Turns Your Blog Into an iOS and Android App for Free This could be a useful tool for bloggers.

• Blogs and Labels are about Information Literacy | Langwitches Blog

• What is Evernote? | Using Evernote | How To Blog Better Interesting post discussing another way to use Evernote – this time to keep a blog organised.

• How to Comment | 4KJ @ Leopold Primary School

• Learning About Blogs FOR your Students- Part VI: Consistency | Langwitches Blog

• Learning About Blogs FOR your Students- Part V: Reciprocating | Langwitches Blog

• Learning About Blogs FOR your Students- Part IV: Connecting | Langwitches Blog Connecting students with blogging

• Learning About Blogs FOR Your Students- Part III: Commenting | Langwitches Blog Blogging with students – stepping it up to blogging-commenting.

• Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Teachers Quick Guide to Blogging

• Learning About Blogs FOR your Students: Part VII – Quality | Langwitches Blog

• http://langwitches.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/blogging-commenting-rubric.pdf A comprehensive rubric for student blogging from langwitches.

• Two Handy Blogging Rubrics for Teachers to Use with Their Students ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

• Build a team | An Ethical Island The collaborative opportunities that the web offers can easily be mirrored within the four walls of the classroom. We should provide students with the right environment where they can work in teams and mentor each other. Mia from the “anethicalisland” site has this great visual featuring 27 tips for teachers to boost team work in class.

• Henry Sibley Presents: Managing Your Digital Footprint – YouTube A useful video developed for students at Sibley High School. College. Administrators and employers comment on how student representation in social media (digital footprint) influences college admission practices and hiring decisions.

• Digital Learning and Teaching Victoria | Digital Learning and Teaching Victoria (DLTV) replaces ICT in Education Victoria and the Victorian IT Teachers’ Association “Digital Learning and Teaching Victoria (DLTV) replaces ICT in Education Victoria and the Victorian IT Teachers’ Association. This new association will deliver professional support and networking opportunities to all educators.

• Five Best Free CD Ripper: Extract CD Collection to Various Audio Formats

• 10 Excellent Social Bookmarking Tools for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

• An Insider’s Guide to Social Media Etiquette This is a useful post about social media etiquette. It would useful to discuss that ideas with students. A lot of the advice is common sense but it is often good to clearly state what is common sense so everyone has a clear understanding of what to do and not do.

• 60 Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom By Category A good list of innovative ways to use twitter as a learning and teaching tool.

• Cybersafety A useful site from the Victorian Dept of Ed and Early childhood development Offers links to anti-bullying and cyber safety sites.

• A Quick Visual Guide on How to Create An eBook from Wikipedia Articles ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

• Touch Van Gogh – An Android App for Learning About Van Gogh | Android 4 Schools

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