On Wednesday and Thursday last week, a team of teachers from JMA and BHS joined our wonderful coaches Natalie and Kelly from Education Elements for the final workshop of the year. On Wednesday, these teachers opened their classroom doors for walkthroughs. Visiting their classes, we were able to see engaging Kahoot! games, choice lectures through EdPuzzle, authentic reading and writing practice with ThinkCERCA, and other thoughtful ways of using technology to enhance instruction. We were also able to see station rotation models that allowed for small group instruction and for students to have ownership of their learning.
On Thursday, the team came together for a Reflect and Plan academy. Teachers shared their best practices and worked on what changes and improvements they would like to make for next year. I can't wait to see what they have in store for 2016-17!
In It’s Time to Stop Hiding Behind Graduation Rates, Nicholas Donahue, the president and CEO of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, discusses how college and career readiness needs to be the measure of success for schools, not graduation rates. How do we improve college and career readiness? Student centered learning.
When Celebrating Learning Differences Is At the Heart of School Culture shares the stories of two schools as they use specific knowledge of each of their students to personalize learning.
The idea behind Let Teachers Design Better Ways to Use School Time is that when time is a variable, teachers should have voice in how it is used in order to avoid time wasted.
Why Flipped Learning Improves a Teacher’s Questioning Skills shares another benefit of flipping your classroom: teachers can ask question that might actually be answered! (Due to the ability to personalize questions for individual or groups of students)
Hi Paul! Thanks for the "Flipped Learning" article. As you know, I'm contemplating flipping my AP class next year - this adds to my motivation.
ReplyDeleteNice Bulletin!! :-)
Kim