Professional Learning
Blended Learning Moves into Teacher Prep Programs
With universities’ drive to stay relevant, motivated teachers’ demand for a different way to teach mathematics, and the country’s focus on college and career-ready standards, a program like this is not only vital to the future of math education but an outstanding model for the way in which K-12 and Higher Ed must come together to better prepare teachers for personalized, blended learning.
Better Assessment of Teacher Preparedness
When it comes to determining preparedness to teach, there is a nationwide movement from credit accumulation to skill demonstration.
Blending Alone (Part 2): How to Blend Your Own PD
It is important to keep in mind that of the many learning journeys that will be happening in your classroom... one of them will be yours.
Crowdsourcing Districts For the Core
With a new pilot from UClass, districts are offered the opportunity to build an online PLN, exclusive to their district, offering a one-stop hub for curriculum solutions making it easy for teachers to find, share and organize district-wide resources.
Literacy Design Collaborative Launches CoreTools
Yesterday, LDC launched CoreTools, a teacher-created online instructional platform to guide teachers through a curriculum design and professional development experience that enables them to master the instructional shifts of the Common Core.
Florida Virtual School Prepares Online Teachers with New Course
This new course will first be offered to current FLVS teachers but, by summer, will also open to the public. The students will have a choice to be online certified through Post University or be Florida Virtual certified.
The Future of Learning—Digital, Mobile, Real-Time
The latest results from Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow and an advisor to DreamBox, and her Speak Up 2012 National Research Project and Project Tomorrow survey of 364,233 participants, shows the upward spiral of tech use, even by the very young.
“One Size Does Not Fit All” for Online Teacher Professional Development
We spent some time talking to the passion driven professional development team at Florida Virtual School (FLVS) and were excited by the multiple different paths teachers can take to become effective, talented online teachers for today’s students. They are working to stimulate success by connecting learners to innovative and engaging learning opportunity through highly qualified teachers in a way that has never been done before.
EdTech 10: The Good Stuff
Happy Saturday! We are half way through November and definitely feeling thankful for so many interesting and good things happening in the world of education this week.
Leading the Way for Building 21st Century Instructional Coaches
In order to affect change, Washington STEM is working on STEM PD, a program developed to move professional development and STEM instructional coaching into the next century.