Tag Professional Learning
For years, I’ve proudly explained my content specialities in grades 4-8 as having a strong focus on “content literacy.” Imagine my surprise during the first video in MOOC, when they explained that content literacy is an intermediary step with Disciplinary Literacy being the… Continue Reading →
A teacher friend is worth his/her weight in gold for a reason; they hold treasure! Over the years teachers build up experience and the knowledge of where to access the best resources. If you pick the right teacher friends you gain… Continue Reading →
Part of the #ETCoaches Blog Challenge. See my other weekly posts: What is my Purpose? Challenges and Successes Current Tools, Problems, and Successes Influential Blogs What is Next in Blogging? As I identify the purpose of my blog, I… Continue Reading →
An awesome #ETCoaches Twitter chat last week inspired the group to start-up an Ed Tech Coaches Blog Challenge. I offered to get the ball rolling on some challenge items – I sure hope everyone into the idea chips in and makes… Continue Reading →
There is a certain understood professionalism between educators – or there should be. Judging the quality of a teacher-created contribution is tough, but how does one judge another teacher’s contribution to quality instruction? Before you answer that let’s examine the Educational landscape… Continue Reading →
The term ‘Personalization’ has made the rounds in the educational technology portions of education for sometime now. Usually the education community incorporates terms like this or abandons them, but ‘Personalization’ seems to have been artificially kept alive by #EdTech companies. Teachers… Continue Reading →
I just finished an interesting, new (to me) professional learning format. And I can’t wait to try my next book study in this slow chat format! ISTE’s Ed Tech Coaches Network hosted a Spring book study April 4 – May… Continue Reading →
Sometimes I find myself “saving up books” to read when I have more time. Sound familiar to any teachers out there? <image Of course I buy many of my books from Amazon, some paper, some Kindle. But I’d also recommend… Continue Reading →
What social media does for Connected Educators today is amazing. I noticed an inbound link to my blog Thursday, likely because it was “funny” Spanish to me – also known as – not English or Spanish. I followed it to an interesting blog… Continue Reading →
Don’t get me wrong, you’re probably a rock star. But this isn’t about you. If you are an effective coach, it is about making the other teacher the rock star. I personally struggle with that same drive that brought me to… Continue Reading →
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