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Flipped Classroom

Getting bogged down in delivering content? Are you suffering from ‘Power-pointlessness’? Wanting to flip your classroom but don’t know how? Here’s three posts that will walk you through it. Part 1 – Why flip; Part 2 – Tools you will need; Part 3 – Making your first screencast.

60 Non-Threatening Formative Assessment Techniques

by TeachThought Staff. As frequently as a chef needs to check a sauce for taste, teachers should check for understanding. These can be formal-formative or summative assessment, multiple choice, short answer, essay, matching, and related iconic “test” forms. But they can also be informal-conversations, gallery walks, sketches, and more.

Tips, Tricks and Traps

KAMAR iPhone/Android Application 

If you didn’t know, KAMAR has both an iOS and Android app that you can load on your phone. Has basically look up functionality – great for use on duty when you think a student is not given their correct name (never happens does it….). Also really great for taking the register in class, in my experience it is quicker to access that loading KAMAR on the laptop. Click the link to get to the KAMAR page which has links to the apps.

20 Youtube channels for Educators

YouTube = Learning at Your Fingertips! When you want to learn something new these days, most of us head over to YouTube. You can learn just about anything on YouTube: how to fix your dryer, how to create a blog, or how to use Google Docs. Here’s some recommended channels for Educators.

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Things that make you go hmmmm….

Transient Attention

Has the mainstreaming of short ‘snaps’ of information transformed the way students process information? Think of the popularity of Twitter (140 characters), Vine (6 seconds of video), Snapchat and the like. Do students avoid digesting lengthy sources of information so that they can gain greater insight into complexity.

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ETP 6 (Group work) – PL@TBC

With a focus on group work coming out in the Tuesday morning presentations, here is a link to some resources and readings on the PL website. If you have anything useful, send them my way so I can add them to this growing collection.

Tips, Tricks and Traps

Flubaroo – Grading Made Easy

This is an Add on to Google Sheets that enables you to easily create self marking tests. I have used them for Maths diagnostic tests this year and have been impressed with the email results to students. Not only does it give them answers, but you can also add help tips to direct students to websites or pages in a workbook to help them with the question they got wrong. Read more at their website.

Google Image Search – Tricks Every Teacher Must Know!

In case you didn’t know, you can search for great images without ever leaving your Google Doc! Finding great images for your Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms and Drawings is even easier than you might think. This is a hidden gem! You can actually search while still inside the document.

More tips and resources @ TBC PL Website

Things that make you go hmmmm….

What if teachers were treated like pro Athletes?

‘Boyd Maxwell’ and ‘Perry Schmidt’ report on the latest developments in the exciting world of pro teaching. From those funny guys Key & Peele.

Mile of Pi – Numberphile – YouTube

What do bored Maths teachers do in their day’s off? Print out a million digits of Pi on one piece of paper making a ‘mile of Pi’.

Morena All

After extensive research from the Marketing Department, we are trying a different approach during Term 3. In place of the lunchtime workshops I’ll be sending out an email every two weeks (tentatively known as the ‘Bi-Weekly Beaker’ or BWB) with some links and resources that you might find useful.

Nga mihi

Andrew 

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EducationHQ – Teacher of many talents

This is a Q&A with Orewa College’s Mark Quigley. He describes his school’s journey along the BYOD pathway which may have some relevance for us here at TBC.

29 Super Effective Ways to get Your Students’ Attention Without Ever Raising Your Voice

Excerpt from Website: “Quiet Down! This is the last time I’m asking you take your seats! Why won’t you listen!?” Teaching is tough! And that’s true even if you have a classroom full of 38 obedient children, who listen to your every word. So what do you do when your students are noisy, loud and disruptive?

Tips, Tricks and Traps

Use Chrome for browsing

Using Chrome as your default web browser will make your Google Drive/Apps experience much more enjoyable. Google created the Chrome browser and all things Google just seem to work better with it. One of the great benefits of using Chrome as that it can separate the use of different Google accounts. You may have already experience the frustration of having another google account having logged in on your computer and you can’t seem to sign out of it. Here’s a link to the How to.

Emailing from KAMAR

KAMAR makes it easy to email a class or group of students. Great for communicating with parents for either co-curricular or classroom needs. Here’s a link to a screen cast that shows you how to.

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Things that make you go hmmmm….

Education and Training in NZ

Here is a link to a great infographic showing some of the key facts about education and training from the 2013 Census – including information about people with qualifications; highest qualification; post-school qualification field of study; and study participation. Could be useful when have conversations with students about option selection and academic coaching.