Sat, Oct 17, 2020 11:21 AM in Remote learning resources & advice
Melissa,
There is an app called Peardeck which allows students to draw and label things and then submit them to the teacher. You could use this to have them draw and label the parts of the water cycle for example. It's so much easier than typing everything out, and it is a better solution that having students take a picture of what they drew and emailing it. I also saw someone else mention...
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Mon, Mar 23, 2020 2:42 PM in Modeling a Remote Teaching Lesson on the Nature of Science (NOS) and the definition of a PLANET
How is that cutesy song/ mnemonic we learned (and then relearned with only 8 planets) limiting/stifling our students’ understanding about the number of planets in our solar system?
The song I learned in school was Interplanet Janet by Schoolhouse Rock. This song was not rechanged after pluto was no longer a planet, but I remember our teacher explaining to use afterwards that ...
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Thu, Jan 30, 2020 2:09 PM in Attributes of a Successful/Effective Teacher
Maggie,
I completely agree that patience is a neccessary component to being a successful teacher. It is a really difficult attribute to attain, but I think we need to keep in mind they are probably learning what we teach them for the first time. Also, if our students aren't grasping something we probably need to teach it in a different way, rather than blame it on them. Therefore, I would ...
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