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Traits of a Successful Online Teacher

Catlin Tucker

Savery believes that teachers who demonstrate these characteristics in their work with students online are more likely to create a productive and positive learning environment and deal with fewer management issues. BE VOCAL: Characteristics of successful online instructors. Savery, J.

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Playlists vs. Choice Boards: What is the difference?

Catlin Tucker

When I facilitate training sessions on playlists, I use a backward design approach to guide teachers through the process (Wiggins & McTighe, 2005). I have a module dedicated to each in my Advancing with Blended Learning course. Want more instruction and support designing playlists and choice boards?

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5 Ways Online Learning Can Open Doors For All Students

EdNews Daily

In 2005, Dr. Bennett was selected as the Polk County Teacher of the Year. Before coming to Southeastern, Dr. Samuel Bennett accumulated over 20 years in public school education, including stints in elementary, middle, community college and adult education.

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Empatico: A Breakthrough Way to Promote Empathy (And It’s Free)

The CoolCatTeacher

I’ve been collaborating globally since 2006 and have created more than 30 global collaborative projects in that time, co-winning the ISTE Online learning award with that first project in 2006. As I look for opportunities to collaborate, I look for simple, easy ways. See Lease, A. M., & Blake, J. Social Development,14 (1), 20-41.

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What is the role of the teacher in the online classroom? Connectivism might provide an answer

Neo LMS

By learning together in a learning community, students have the opportunity to extend and deepen their learning experience, test out new ideas by sharing them with a supportive group, and receive critical and constructive feedback.” ( Palloff & Pratt 2005 ). Stay tuned.

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10 edtech experts you should follow

Hapara

After helping teachers transition to online learning during the pandemic, she began writing about her experiences, including a chapter on online learning in Like No Other School Year. She also wrote a full guide to online and digital learning, A Teacher’s Guide to Online Learning. .

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Coping with COVID in the Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

She graduated with a BS in Education in 2005 and set out to teach in the gorgeous green Pacific Northwest, where she and her husband lived. Over Spring Break we set up Google Classroom pages, learned how to do Zoom, and created packets of papers for students’ families to pick up and drop off outside the school weekly.

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