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Observing the Common Core Classroom

A Principal's Reflections

Educators across the country are grappling with the Common Core Standards and the significant changes that have come with them. How do administrators tasked with observing teachers know what they are looking for in a Common Core classroom? How have you prepared to observe the Common Core Classroom?

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10 Ways Any Teacher Can (and Should) Use Technology

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Common Core tells us: New technologies have broadened and expanded the role that speaking and listening play in acquiring and sharing knowledge and have tightened their link to other forms of communication. iPads to share stories students write. Save as PDFs and load onto iPads to share with students.

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6 Tech Activities for Your Summer School Program

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As they work, students “…construct viable arguments and critique reasoning of others…” More specifically (Common Core Appendix C): introduce claim. how to read ebooks from an iPad. how to read ebooks from an iPad. digital cameras, iPads, and email programs). establish and maintain a formal style.

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9 Ways to Add Tech to your Lessons Without Adding Time to Your Day

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the digital devices–computer or Chromebooks or iPads–won’t work on the Big Day. Luckily, Common Core–and many State standards–provide an excellent starter list of seven ways to blend technology into your everyday teaching: have digital ebooks included in your class library.

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Subscriber Special: February

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Pick a topic: Tech infused Teacher/Classroom. delivered via Google Classroom. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Student joins a Google Classroom-based class and meets weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Writing With Tech. Building Digital Citizens.

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What Happens When Technology Fails? 3 Work-Arounds

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With the pride of place iPads and Chromebooks have in curriculum decisions, tech problems will be wide-ranging, everything from a student’s device not having required software to the classroom systems not hooking up to the school’s network or WiFi. It doesn’t stop with the teacher, either. Be a risk-taker.

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Online Classes! On Your Schedule

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All are online, hands-on, with an authentic use of tools you’ll want for your classroom. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Students join a Google Classroom-based class and meet weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. The Tech-infused Teacher. Certificate.