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Some stories just get more traction than others. Sometimes, we know what blogs will resonate with our teachers and often they just catch us by surprise. We’ll do our best to focus on issues our teachers care about in the coming year! Take a look back at the top ten blogs from AAE in 2013.
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Inspiration for the New Year: Picks from our PD Calendar
posted by: Melissa | December 18, 2013, 11:24 am Our Professional Development Calendar is filled with the best opportunities to help you improve your practice. This month, we’re looking at opportunities that inspire. Continue Reading...I have to admit, I’m a spoken-word type of person. I like attending lectures and prefer an audio book to music. In fact, I haven’t bought any new music for my iPod for years, even though I’m constantly trolling for something new and interesting to listen to. This is why podcasts quickly took over my listening. Continue Reading...Teachers have been a part of the blogging scene since the very beginning. Blogging has always been an easy way for professionals in an often isolating and misunderstood practice to share the thoughts, feelings, and challenges of their everyday life. Today, teacher blogs have proliferated across the internet and have even become a subset of blogging in their own right. Continue Reading...
Flip & Blend: Learn How to Use Technology with Highlights from our PD Calendar
posted by: Melissa | November 13, 2013, 04:31 pm Our Professional Development Calendar is filled with opportunities that will help you build the skills you need to be an innovative educator. This month, we’re focusing on the innovative ways technology can be used in the classroom. Continue Reading...As October and Connected Educator Month draw to a close, it’s never too late to get connected! Here are ten simple tips for "connecting,” derived from an Edutopia blog by Elana Leoni. Continue Reading...Connected Educator Month is almost over. Hopefully, you’ve spent the month learning about different techniques and places you can use online to connect with other educators. As we come to a close, I’d like to highlight one more option that often gets overlooked: YouTube. Continue Reading...As noted earlier, October is Connected Educator Month – a month focusing on helping educators connect and form PLNs (personal learning networks) through the internet. Much has been written about using popular sites like Twitter and Pinterest as ways for teachers to connect, but often lost in the mix has been Google+. I find this a tragedy, because Google+ is quickly becoming my favorite way to connect with other educators from across the country. Continue Reading...
Manage Your Classroom Well: Highlights From our PD Calendar
posted by: Melissa | October 02, 2013, 09:02 am
Our Professional Development Calendar is filled with opportunities that will help you start the school year off right. Our picks this month are ones that will help you learn the skills you need to have a smooth and well-run classroom.
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With the recent blog entry about using badges in the classroom, this seems a good time to write about how to leverage gamification in your classroom. The two concepts often go hand in hand, with badges being an excellent way to add a level of gamification. Continue Reading...
With the announcement of Google and EdX joining forces to provide online courses, opportunities to take courses online, either for free or pay, continues to expand. For teachers, this provides an easy way to keep on top of their craft through professional development. While not every site offering online courses have courses that teachers can use for professional development, many do.
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Changes to National Boards Make Certification More Flexible for Teachers
posted by: Ruthie | September 10, 2013, 11:08 am With tight budgets and changing requirements, teachers are always excited to hear about ways to save money on professional development and certifications. Recently, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) announced a $600 decrease in the price of certification. The change is designed to save teachers money and make certification easier to obtain. Continue Reading...
The Latest Highlights from our Professional Development Calendar
posted by: Melissa | August 28, 2013, 03:20 pm Our Professional Development Calendar is filled with opportunities that will help you start the school year off right. Our picks this month focus on opportunities that incorporate skills, tools, and teaching techniques that will help set the tone and cultivate student interest towards the beginning of the year, and then continue to help through the rest of the school year. Continue Reading...
In the past, we've talked about the importance of setting up a PLN (professional learning network), an online alternative to a school based professional learning community or PLC. PLNs are one of the few forms of professional development that have been shown to have a lasting impact on teacher practice and student learning. As the new year approaches, now is the perfect time to take a look at your PLN and make sure that it's getting the job done.
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There's always a lot of talk about what apps are good for student use in the classroom – which apps teach math or reading the best or which apps students can use to make presentations. Well, as the school year begins, we thought that we'd recommend the best apps for teachers to use in their classroom.
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The beginning of the school year is the perfect time to learn some new techniques or try a different strategy in your classroom. Our Professional Development Calendar is filled with opportunities that will let you do just that. Here are some of the best for the month of August.
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Doug Lemov may be best known for his bestseller, “Teach Like a Champion,” which provides teachers with specific teaching strategies. Yesterday, he released a paper just as interesting and useful for teachers - one that champions the use of practice in the refinement of teaching skills. Continue Reading...
California Company Offers Free Teaching Courses for K-12 Education
posted by: Ruthie | May 20, 2013, 01:06 pm Yesterday, Edweek published an insightful article citing new trends in low-cost professional development courses. As professional development opportunities continue to expand via online platforms, "MOOC's" (massively open online courses) are now being offered to K-12 educators. Silicon Valley company Coursera recently partnered with seven universities to provide 28 free courses, with topics ranging from biology and literacy to lessons on how to structure classes and survive the first year of teaching. Continue Reading...
As teachers look for new and creative ways to drive student instruction, more of them are turning to project based learning (PBL).
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As teachers look for new and creative ways to drive student instruction, more of them are turning to project based learning (PBL).
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