We are often asked how teachers can encourage student agency using digital tools. Here’s an example of one way you can build a task that allows for student choice and differentiation within the activities provided.
Encouraging our students to work independently can be a challenge at the best of times. By introducing hyperdocs into our class programmes we can begin to move our students towards working more self sufficiently. Here’s a beginners guide to creating effective hyperdocs to use in your classroom.
The nature of education is a continually changing landscape and over the years the way it has been delivered should be altering significantly. Sometimes these changes are driven by education research and sometimes they are driven by societal or business influences. Currently many schools across the world are facing a marked shift in how they deliver their curriculums – what makes for best practice when teaching remotely?
Integration of digital technology is key for teachers who already face a tightly packed curriculum. The good news is that there are countless ways that you can use technology in meaningful, engaging ways to enhance your curriculum and excite your students!
During 2109 I worked with over 1,700 teachers and there was overwhelmingly one question that I was asked most often, “How can I use digital technologies in my maths program?”.
This blog will get you started with five ideas for using G Suite tools purposefully in your maths program.
I always get so excited when I’m visiting schools and see teachers using technology in ways that EMPOWERS students and completely TRANSFORM learning! The tools they use to do this are varied but many of them are right there, within G Suite!
Here are three areas where you can use familiar tools in G Suite (and a few other free online tools) to empower the students in your classes!
How you could spend a lot of time playing around with this. The gaps between your stops here you can see other gaps in your gradient here. If you want a really solid line between them, just drag this one on top of that one.
As learning becomes more self directed and students work collaboratively more often, we tend to have times when some have finished and some haven’t. Rather than letting those finished have ‘free time’ how about designing some form of a choice board with purposeful, engaging activities that develop 21st century Skills.
Here are four ideas you could include.
How useful is YouTube when you are wanting to learn a new skill? You can find tutorials on almost anything! One thing students can often struggle with though, is flicking back and forward between tabs to try something out, then going back to view the next step. Well no more! Read on to find out about a super easy way to enable the Picture in Picture mode.
「なぜそうするのか」ということを常に考えて、トレーニングできる環境であり、自分の考えを話したり、議論する時間が十分に確保されています。本当に充実した時間でした。
マイク先生、ありがとうございました！「生徒のモチベーションを上げる方法」についての4週間コースは本当に面白く、自分の授業の進め方について考える良いトレーニングになりました。
マイク先生、素晴らしい授業をありがとうございました。スキルは常に磨いていかないといけないと考える人にとっては、とても面白く充実したクラスだと思います。
私の教師歴は4年ですが、今まで受けた中で最高のコースでした。実際に生徒からも、「もっとこういう授業をしてほしい」と言われてしまいました。
コースを受けてみて本当に無駄がないと感じました。本必要な知識を丁寧に簡潔に説明していただき、理解しやすかったです。
ジェームス先生、ありがとうございました！
素晴らしい授業でした！
とても素晴らしいコースでした。
オンラインで受けたのですが、夜間くつろぎながら受けたり、子供が寝静まった後に受けたりと、最高の時間でした！
