The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2019

He has taught every single grade from K to 12 and has also taught seminars to undergraduates at New York University and graduate students at Columbia University. He has a Master’s of Teaching from Fordham University, an MPA from NYU and a law degree from Cardozo Law School.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 12, 2022

While already aware of the effects smartphones had on students’ attention, I tried to keep a balanced approach to using technology in my classroom. So, I took it upon myself to implement it in my classroom with some success selecting certain days during the instructional week to limit screen access.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 17, 2021

I am a seminar facilitator for student teachers, and I teach gifted education at three Title 1 elementary schools. This qualitative information, for me as an educator, is a much better measure of success in the classroom than any type of quantitative information. I wear many hats as an educator. Is it time to go leave already?

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

I prepared a few Socratic Seminars about their impressions of AI and its potential implications for the future of writing and education. Look,” a student pointed out in one seminar. “It As we moved through these seminars, my students helped me realize I was focusing on the wrong tensions in the debate around ChatGPT.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2024

To reduce this risk, educators must stress autonomous writing abilities and encourage actions that reinforce them while integrating AI technologies into the classroom environment. Workshops, seminars, and discussion groups may explain these difficulties and promote creativity and integrity in academia.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 22, 2020

If you’re like me, you spent the summer attending webinars, seminars, and conferences. You collected a long list of highly-recommended resources that you can’t wait to try in your classroom. This two-step process doesn’t assure that once I try the program in a real classroom, it’ll perform as promised.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Sidenote: Questioning And The Socrative Method The Socrative Method is among the most well-known version of the Didactic approach, where students are (or can be, depending on how the seminar is structured) guided by ‘more knowledge others’ (MKO) personalized and extended reflection through inquiry.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 9, 2016

The combination of students and mobile devices in the classroom has long been a debate topic among education professionals. As a teacher, you could try to ban the use of smartphones in your classroom, but don’t hope for the most popular teacher award in your school. Phones can help students engage more in classroom activities.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

With new technologies and opportunities for help outside the classroom, like private tutoring or AI, wealthier students are often better equipped than their peers to enter college. On a classroom level, professors should play a more active role with students, Iowas Gooblar says.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

5 Reasons to Try a Whole Novel Approach in Your Classroom. Vicki: Today we are talking to Ariel Sacks about Five Reasons to Try a Whole Novel Approach in the Classroom. Whole Novels for a Whole Classroom: a Student Centered Approach by Ariel Sacks. It’s not a Socratic seminar where I sit back and just watch it unfold.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Rather than sitting in a PD seminar all day, instructional coaching provides support relevant to the teacher’s specific classroom and content. “If DLP teachers meet with their coach to set goals directly related to the needs of their classroom. So why, then, shouldn’t teacher learning also be personalized? Active Learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 24, 2010

Topics ranged from health and drug awareness seminars to technology. Parents want and need to hear the great things happening in our buildings and classrooms. Invite parents into your classrooms/schools. We did this last week for the first time and the feedback from parents was extremely positive.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 14, 2022

This week my spring 2022 seminar began. These seminars are mostly discussion based. As the seminar progresses, they will use technologies they study to create these reflections. These last parts stem from my classroom democracy belief, as does our opening class assignment of collaboratively determining class norms.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 5, 2019

Are the micro-credential tasks doable for educators who are not actually in the classroom, as we’re both at our district office? Before resubmitting Making Media for Classroom Use: Audio and Video , for instance, the focus of our I’m Not Leaving lesson was a specific historical event.

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Neo LMS

MAY 14, 2020

Read more: What is the role of the teacher in the online classroom? I also believe that there’s a need to prioritize wellbeing and adopt a social and emotional learning approach in the classroom that is taken as seriously as the other subjects. That could also be true for seminars and lab projects.

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techieMusings

MAY 24, 2016

Our English Department uses Socratic seminars as an assessment tool. When the Socratic seminar is the culminating assessment, students are expected to prepare for the activity ahead of time as they would for a written test. Students sit in two concentric circles during a Socratic seminar.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 6, 2022

That’s why I am now sharing my top tips for creating interactive learning spaces that any teacher can apply to their own classroom: Make learning content accessible from anywhere. The flipped classroom is built on the principle that students control their learning and can decide when and where to learn.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 12, 2021

This is all the more relevant to educators, who will need to be leading lessons, seminars and one-on-one study sessions on a daily basis. There is nothing more frustrating for a remote worker than to find that the hardware, software or network connection they are using to fulfil their duties is not up to scratch.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

They flipped their classrooms. Instead of going to class to listen to the teacher’s lecture and then home to do their homework, students in a flipped classroom listen, watch or read by themselves — before they go to school. Yet they still get great results in a flipped classroom environment. Higher Education is different.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

Like many fellow founders in this space, I left the classroom to create solutions to the challenges that I faced as a teacher and tech director. The program is designed for our employees to build knowledge of what actually happens in classrooms, as well as an understanding of the deep tensions and issues with our educational system.

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Teacher Tech

MARCH 23, 2021

I have given seminars and sessions on educator self-care in the age of COVID, as well as how to protect our peace and empathy. The post @VictoriaTheTech’s Favorite Microsoft Educator Center Courses #2 – Mindfulness in The Classroom appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

million education-oriented Pre-K through High School lesson plans, curricula, videos, classroom activities, assessments, books, bulletin board ideas, classroom decorations, interactive notebooks, task cards, Common Core resources, and more. Seminar Overview. Seminars I attended included: using social media to spread the word.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 3, 2025

But now that AI has become ubiquitous in both home and work environments, administrators need to think about how their schools will integrate AI into their classrooms so that students are prepared for jobs of the future. While workshops and seminars will help some, look for smaller teaching moments.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Sure, 73% of teachers use cell phones in their classrooms and 92% say the Internet has a “major impact” on their teaching. If you were in a seminar, it would include the people on both sides of you and in front and back. I’ll wrap up with the current darling of technology-in-education: Google Classroom.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 11, 2012

A few weeks ago, I made a commitment to visit schools that are using social media, smartphones, texting, and other digital technologies, as a vital part of daily classroom instruction. There are plenty of schools that have very expensive artwork on their classroom walls (i.e. Smart Board). Job well done by this mathematics teacher!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2025

And of course, readers were eager for coverage on dealing with the ways artificial intelligence is changing the dynamics of their classrooms. But overall, EdSurge articles that highlighted educators experiences and called for more connection gripped readers all year. Here are the most popular K-12 stories of 2024.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Teachers spend hours designing and setting up their classrooms. One of EdSurge’s most popular articles described how a teacher used flexible seating to create a classroom that resembled Starbucks, spawning a movement to “ Starbucks your classroom. ” They arrange cozy reading nooks and construct colorful bulletin boards.

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User Generated Education

AUGUST 17, 2019

Establish a learning community where all learners are seen as having value in our classroom. This past week was the first week of school and the first week that I am teaching these students in a 9th Grade Freshman Seminar.

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2024

Across the nation classrooms stand understaffed, and districts are left scrambling to find ways to fill the void. This crisis has permanently shifted the educational landscape, and traditional methods of filling our classrooms are falling short. Live, interactive teaching does more than just help fill classroom vacancies.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. In this role, I regularly visit classrooms as a guest teacher and I frequently see evidence of this type of historical empathy.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

However, during the seminar, the facilitators jumped directly into piloting GBL activities with attendees. I had hoped the seminar would address the tendency to ignore the impact of Indigenous practices in teaching; instead, it was just another example of appropriation.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 10, 2016

For example, it's nearly impossible for students working in shifts to be present in the classroom up to 80% of classes/lab seminars. Technology and e-learning are life saviours for all students who have to share their time and energy between the classroom and the workplace. Oh wait, they can! Technology saves the day!

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 6, 2010

I was also fortunate enough to be selected as NMHS’s delegate for New Jersey’s Hugh O’Brien Youth Leadership Seminar my sophomore year. These exceptional educators have shown me just how teachers can lead students and guide them in the right direction, in and out of the classroom.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 29, 2020

It is a digital publishing studio that allows kids to write and illustrate their own books in the classroom. It’s a little bit like an online literature seminar, in which students and teachers comment on paragraphs, share their ideas, and exchange notes. Kids can create digital or printed books with TikaTok.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

Technology plays a prominent role in the modern classroom. In a survey of 1,000 long-time high school teachers, 73% say their classrooms use laptops and tablets daily. Although teachers have advanced resources, many are unsure how best to implement them in the classroom. Sample popular edtech tools.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

And she says the stakes for improving classroom teaching are higher than many people realize. The latest book she co-authored—“The New College Classroom”—is a surprisingly lively read for a how-to book on teaching. The latest book she co-authored—“The New College Classroom”—is a surprisingly lively read for a how-to book on teaching.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 8, 2018

Multi-user video conferencing /Live classroom sessions and webinars. WizIQ’s Virtual Classroom , for instance, enables hassle-free live-sessions across all devices and platforms. Seminars held online, are called webinars. More on these topics: Gamifying your classroom (a lesson plan). Breakout rooms. About the author.

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