Teachers dedicate time to collaborate with both colleagues and students to improve practice, discover and share resources and ideas, and solve problems. Teachers:
This week, we'll explore how schools are beginning to give teachers time to collaborate and plan with one another. This opens great possibilities for cross-curricular coordination, as well as many other positives. Not only should teachers collaborate with each other, but also with their students. The collaborations could include engaging experts and teams from around the world. As we deal with world wide possibilities for collaboration, we also need to be sensitive to the cultural identities of those we interact with. We have some ideas and resources for you!
This week, we'll also begin a series of "Thinking Outside the Box." We'll take a hard look at things like grades, homework, curriculum silos, and other traditional educational practices.
We also have a great section on new technologies that are coming your way. How will they impact you? What possibilities would they have for teaching and learning? These are the ideas I'd like you to think about as you are introduced to them.
This week's skill: Advanced Search Strategies for Teachers and Students.
- Learn ideas and resources for collaborating with peers, experts, and students.
- Take a hard look at assessment and grades, and discuss alternative strategies for assessment
- Learn advanced internet search skills, and demonstrate that you can use them to find relevant resources.
- Section 8A:
- Teachers dedicate planning time to collaborate with colleagues to create authentic learning experiences that leverage technology.
- Teachers collaborate and co-learn with students to explore and experiment with digital tools and resources that support learning, and to diagnose and troubleshoot technology issues.
- Section 8B:
- Teachers use collaborative tools to engage virtually with experts, teams and students, locally and globally, to expand students’ authentic, real-world learning experiences.
- Teachers exhibit cultural competency when communicating with students, parents and colleagues and interact with them as co-collaborators in student learning.
- Section 8C: Thinking outside the box: Grades
- Section 8D: New technologies to think about - How could they impact teaching and learning?
- Section 8E: Skill: Advanced Search Strategies for Teachers and Students
Use Module "Week 8 - Teachers become collaborators - Advanced Search Strategies" in Canvas! Be sure to look through the assigned discussions and their scoring rubrics!