Tips and Tricks to Reduce Stress!

Has this year induced anxious and negative feelings for you?

This magazine goes into some helpful ways to reduce stress and anxiety; let's give ourselves a break!

Alanah@NU

Symbaloo - Save, Organize and Share Online Resources Tool

With more time being spent online and communicating virtually, there is no better time for Symabloo. Symbaloo uses customizable, organized boards with tiles to store links, videos, web docs, etc making it easily accessible to share your educational resources with your students.

It's an easy way to bring gamification into your class or offer personalized online learning to your students. "Learningpaths" by Symbaloo allow you to create customized lesson plans for each student connecting them to their specific online resource and track their progress in real time. You can also access a repository of premade lesson plans from other teachers! 

Learn more about Symbaloo by visiting www.symbaloo.com 

Sabrina@NU

Using Technology with Purpose - Annual Christmas Concert!

HO HO HO!

It's that time of year again!

Top Notch School is proud to present the Annual Christmas Concert. The ticket is attached and discloses all necessary information.

We hope to see you there!

Merry Christmas!

Alanah@NU

EDU498 - Winter 2021

Welcome to my blog!!!

Chi@NU

ASCD - Articles for You to Read & Stay Informed

ASCD

http://www.ascd.org/

Supporting Students Who Learn Differently (More Issues)

For students who learn differently, including those whose needs rise to the level of receiving special education services, the pandemic has brought additional and varied challenges that many of their peers don't experience. Parents of students who have an Individualized Educational Program (or other additional education support) say they are twice as likely as their peers to be doing little or no remote learning and are at risk of falling behind on important life skills as well as academics. How must teaching and leading change to connect with students in a COVID-19 world? In partnership with Understood, this issue explores ideas for making classrooms—in person and remote—more accommodating to all students.
 
IEP Accommodations During Distance Learning
Amanda Morin
To make accommodations work in an online setting, you'll need some innovative thinking and an understanding of the available tools.
Co-Teaching During Distance Learning: Tips for Partnering Virtually
Brendan R. Hodnett
Some tips for partnering with a co-teacher in your online classroom.
 
How to Plan Online Lessons With Universal Design for Learning
Lauren Jewett
Whether you're new to UDL or have been using it for years, planning with UDL in mind can help you remove barriers to learning in your online classroom.
 
Co-Teach Your Way to Successful Inclusion
Sabrina L. Dawkins
When combining teaching styles and practices in inclusive classrooms, both teachers have to be open to growing, developing, and learning from each other.
 

Brought to you by Anne@OISE

Innovations in K-12 Education

INNOVATIONS in K-12 Education

https://www.eschoolnews.com/newsletter/

Here are a few issues to follow-up with ... Go to the website and search out any issue of interest.  Well worth the visit. 

6 ways to create a culturally responsive classroom
A culturally responsive classroom is an encouraging and nurturing place for diverse students with different backgrounds and experiences.

Sustaining curiosity, collaboration, and connectedness in a pandemic
Digital learning is a critical part of education in 2020 as districts navigate the COVID-19 pandemic--here's how one school keeps students engaged.

3 ways to actually promote equity in education
These key imperatives for moving forward in the fight for equity in education can help guide teachers and school leaders.

3 reasons social-emotional learning is of paramount importance
Teaching students  the skills to express their emotions and modeling healthy relationships helps shape a future of transformational leaders.

Liza@RU

How to Increase Higher Order Thinking

How to Increase Higher Order Thinking

 

Higher Order Thinking takes thinking to higher levels than restating the facts and requires students to do something with the facts — understand them, infer from them, connect them to other facts and concepts, categorize them, manipulate them, put them together in new or novel ways, and apply them as we seek new solutions to new problems.

 

Strategies for enhancing higher order thinking:

-       Help students understand their own higher order thinking strengths and challenges

-       Making sure students understand the critical features that define a particular concept and distinguish it from other concepts

-       Name key concepts

-       Tell and show

-       Teach steps for learning concepts

-       Go from basic to sophisticated

-       Expand discussions at home

-       Clarify the difference between understanding and memorizing

-       Use pictures

-       Teach concept mapping and graphic organizers

-       Encourage questioning

-       Reward creative thinking

-       Use resources

 

The important thing is not to stop questioning ~ Albert Einstein

 

Karina @ NU