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Professional development professional document videos
Professional Learning Community VOYAGE Horizons Module 1 The Source of the Issue
Description:Are you a school leader wrestling with the complexities of implementing truly effective Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) at your institution? You're not alone. A common challenge many leaders face is the nuanced understanding and strategic execution of PLCs. "VOYAGE Horizons, Module 1: The Source of the Issue" is meticulously designed to guide you through this very challenge. Dive into an immersive experience that facilitates a unique approach: a meta-PLC about the PLCs at yo
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Staff
Also included in: VOYAGE Horizons Professional Learning Community PD, Bundle #1
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Teacher Evaluation and Observation Tips
Increase observation scores with these top tips written an experienced evaluator and classroom teacher. You will find checklists, sample lesson plans, a helpful video explanation, and so much more!This product includes both a video and a large resource (found in the supporting documents) packed with information to dramatically increase your evaluation scores. In this resource, I go over the biggest mistakes made by teachers and the easiest ways to ensure that you score higher on your next evalua
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30 Minute STEM Activities PD and Resource Bundle
What can you do with just 30 minutes for your STEM activities? More than you might think! In this session from STEM CON & Beyond®, we'll cover five different ways to use 30 minutes to support your STEM goals effectively. You'll leave armed with practical ideas and helpful resources to get the most out of your short class period.Time stamps:Introduction (0:00)The Key to STEM in 30 Minutes (2:00) Zoom In / Cooking Analogy (3:12)Zoom Out / Big Goals (4:14)Zoom In: Skills (5:01)Zoom In, Part 1:
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Not Grade Specific
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Professional Learning Community PD: The Power of a Well-Crafted Agenda
Elevate your team's PLC effectiveness with our versatile professional development resources! Choose between an engaging video guide and a comprehensive article to learn the art of crafting and implementing impactful agendas in PLCs. Perfect for school leaders, these resources offer flexibility in delivery and style for PD sessions.How to Use:Video Format: Ideal for group PD sessions or individual viewing.Article Format: Great for in-depth reading and group discussion.Who It's For: School leaders
STEM Activities PD - 2021 Bundle
This bundle contains two trainings for teachers implementing STEM activities with their students. Training 1 focuses on creating a post-build routine to help students make connections and develop scientific reasoning and analysis. Suggestions for timing in self-contained and single-subject/elective schedules will be discussed.In training 2, we'll discuss why learning to fail is so important and how to help students develop a healthy relationship with productive failure, even if you don't have on
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STEM Activities PD - 2020 Bundle
This bundle contains three professional development trainings and resources for teachers implementing STEM activities with their students. Training 1 focuses on seven myths, misconceptions, or outright mistakes about STEM Challenge practices that lead to missed opportunities. In training 2, we'll discuss options for STEM Challenge assessments to support your student goals and discuss how to avoid undermining those goals with the wrong assessment choice.In training 3, we'll go through three of th
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PowerPoint PD on Developing Creative Curriculum based on Research
This Powerpoint is a professional development for educators and administrators. It teaches step by step how to engage the learning community in creative thinking and the arts. It includes graphics, informative video, a timeline, agenda, purpose and activities based on educational research.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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STEM Challenge Activities Assessment PD with 4 Cs Rubric
Do you find yourself stumped about how - or even if - to assess your STEM activities?In this session from Elementary STEM CON & Beyond, we'll go through options for STEM Challenge assessments to support your student goals and discuss how to avoid undermining those goals with the wrong assessment choice.Included with this training:The 4 C's Assessment Rubric for STEM Activities_________________________________________________________________What did Elementary STEM CON Attendees say about thi
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Not Grade Specific
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K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-2
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Also included in: STEM Activities - Assessments and Post-Build Questioning Bundle
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STEM Activities - Teaching Methods PD
Do you love STEM Challenge Activities but find yourself rushed for time at the end to have students do the deeper work? And what about yourself? Do you have time to reflect on your own implementation practices?In this session from Elementary STEM CON & Beyond, we'll go through seven myths, misconceptions, or outright mistakes about STEM Challenge practices that lead to missed opportunities. And there's no judgment here! I've made a LOT of these mistakes myself over the years, so let me save
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Not Grade Specific
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K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-2
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Also included in: STEM Activities PD - 2020 Bundle
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STEM Activities - What to Do After the Build to Deepen Understanding
Do you love STEM Challenge Activities but find yourself rushed for time at the end to have students do the deeper work?What you do after a STEM Challenge build phase has the power to transform a fun activity into deep, meaningful learning. In this session from Elementary STEM CON & Beyond, we'll focus on creating a post-build routine to help students make connections and develop scientific reasoning and analysis. Suggestions for timing in self-contained and single-subject/elective schedules
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Not Grade Specific
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-2
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Also included in: STEM Activities - Assessments and Post-Build Questioning Bundle
The Whole Story - Developing Writing with the ESL/EAL Learner Module 5
If you have ever had to teach children with little or no English you will have experienced a range of challenges, from ensuring that the children can access your content to checking their understanding and developing their speaking and listening skills, and finally to assisting them to acquire the complex skills required to write successfully and at an academic level. Packed with teaching tips and strategies, this comprehensive course will significantly boost your confidence in teaching writing
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: The Whole Story - Developing Writing with the ESL/EAL Learner Course
The Whole Story - Developing Writing with the ESL/EAL Learner Module 4
If you have ever had to teach children with little or no English you will have experienced a range of challenges, from ensuring that the children can access your content to checking their understanding and developing their speaking and listening skills, and finally to assisting them to acquire the complex skills required to write successfully and at an academic level. Packed with teaching tips and strategies, this comprehensive course will significantly boost your confidence in teaching writing
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: The Whole Story - Developing Writing with the ESL/EAL Learner Course
The Whole Story - Developing Writing with the ESL/EAL Learner Module 3
If you have ever had to teach children with little or no English you will have experienced a range of challenges, from ensuring that the children can access your content to checking their understanding and developing their speaking and listening skills, and finally to assisting them to acquire the complex skills required to write successfully and at an academic level. Packed with teaching tips and strategies, this comprehensive course will significantly boost your confidence in teaching writing
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: The Whole Story - Developing Writing with the ESL/EAL Learner Course
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Teaching Productive Failure, Perseverance and Growth Mindset
When we teach students how to succeed but not how to fail, we're only doing half the job. In this session from Elementary STEM CON & Beyond, we'll discuss why learning to fail is so important and how to help students develop a healthy relationship with productive failure, even if you don't have one yourself. We'll go through tools, strategies, and action items so you aren't just letting students fail, but teaching them how to fail productively.Time stamps:Obstacles to Teaching Productive Fai
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Not Grade Specific
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K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-2
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Also included in: STEM How-to - Teach Failure, Growth Mindset and Perseverance Mega Bundle
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How to Make An Effective and Engaging Lesson Plan
Welcome! Thank you for enrolling in my course! After this course you will be creating unique, dynamic, and effective teaching plans for your lessons. I firmly believe that the better you are, the better our future will be! This 5 part resource will guide you through some of my best practices as a teacher, influenced by my previous career as a broadcaster. Resources Included: My lectures are video based, and I have included some templates for daily and weekly templates that I find effective, you
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Not Grade Specific
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Troubleshooting STEM Activities - Student Shutdown, Copying and Epic Fails
In this Elementary STEM CON session, we'll go through three of the most common STEM Challenge issues and how to troubleshoot them:Time Stamps:Student Shutdown (00:36)Lookalike Designs (20:53)Epic Fails (24:53)Note 1: I know you may have encountered additional tricky situations with your STEM Activities. If there's something else you're looking for, hit the Q&A tab on this page and let me know. I might have another resource to help you out.Note 2: If you already own another resource that cont
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Not Grade Specific
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-2
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Also included in: STEM How-to - Teach Failure, Growth Mindset and Perseverance Mega Bundle
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Teaching Critical Literacy Through Social Justice Themes: Critical Thinking
This video was designed to share learning around how we may engage our students in Critical Thinking. I have used a prompt guide as a model which I have provide here also.
Please feel free to share your feedback! Be Great!
Created by Ryan Richards
Copyright © 2016 Ryan Richards
All rights reserved by author.
This file may not be copied or re-posted publicly
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Teacher Evaluation - Video and Tips to Raise Observation Scores
Get easy tips to immediately increase your observation scores with this resource from an experienced evaluator and classroom teacher. In this freebie, I go over the 1st of the top ten biggest mistakes made by teachers and the easiest ways to ensure that you score higher on your next evaluations. In the full resource available on TPT, I've included sample lesson plans from recent observations in my own kindergarten classroom to serve as a guide when creating your lesson plans.You can see the full
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Not Grade Specific
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Differentiated Instruction Video Series #1: What is it?
If you teach in a classroom today that you are familiar with the term Differentiation. And if you are like me you may have a love hate relationship with this term.
Classrooms today are complex and trying to teach to the individual instead of the group feels overwhelming. Like yours, one of the realities of my teaching job depends on my ability to differentiated instruction.
Please join me as I dig deeper into what differentiation means in the classroom and how to do it effectively without
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Staff, Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Guided Reading - 35+ Differentiated Texts {Ignited Literacy}
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The 5 Pillars of Reading
As dedicated teachers at Get It Educators, we understand the crucial role reading plays in a student's academic success and lifelong learning. The Five Pillars of Reading provide a comprehensive framework to guide effective reading instruction. Please share this brief video with anyone interested in a bite-sized PD about the Science of Reading and the Five Pillars of Reading.These five pillars encompass key areas of literacy development and are supported by the Science of Reading research:Phonem
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PreK - 6th
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30 Minute STEM Activities - Teaching Methods PD
What can you do with just 30 minutes for your STEM activities? More than you might think! In this session from STEM CON & Beyond®, we'll cover five different ways to use 30 minutes to support your STEM goals effectively. You'll leave armed with practical ideas and helpful resources to get the most out of your short class period.Time stamps:Introduction (0:00)The Key to STEM in 30 Minutes (2:00) Zoom In / Cooking Analogy (3:12)Zoom Out / Big Goals (4:14)Zoom In: Skills (5:01)Zoom In, Part 1:
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Not Grade Specific
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-2
...
Also included in: 30 Minute STEM Activities PD and Resource Bundle
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10 Inquiry Based Teaching Strategies
Using inquiry in your classroom can be challenging. It is important to have a toolkit of go to strategies that will get students talking, sharing and learning from one another. These are my 10 go to strategies that help students dive deeper into inquiry. Use this to take some tried and true strategies and twist them up so that they help you accomplish your goals of using more inquiry in your classroom. Now you can watch the video of me explaining these strategies and give you examples of how
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4th - 6th
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5 Ways to Build Strong Community Partnerships
Community Partners in PBL are a crucial part of what makes Project Based Learning such a real-world learning experience. They bring with them knowledge of how classroom learning can be applied out in the job force. This video explains 5 ways that I use in my PBL classroom to build strong relationships with community partners that I hope will leave my classroom ready to assist students in the future. This video also comes with a .jpg image that can be used to discuss the alternatives to in-perso
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Staff
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Kindergarten 20/20 - Clear Vision in our GOALS and SYSTEMS
Are you a kindergarten teacher that is always worrying about your students meeting end-of-the-year standards and benchmarks? What if I told you that we need to ignore our goals and instead fall in love with and focus on the systems that we have in place? This one shift in thinking will take you from worry and despair to your students easily (and joyfully) meeting (and surpassing) standards and benchmarks. I'm not kidding. We are making this way to hard for everyone and I am on a mission to give
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