October is always a busy time for teachers due to the first quarter ending and parent/teacher conferences starting up but yet we also have another thing to look forward to, educational conferences. At least in Iowa, October is when the educational conferences start up. We have ICTE (english teachers) next week, ITEC (ed tech) the…
One of the things I love the most about being in classrooms in my role as tech integrationist is that I still get to see great examples of learning. Those times when students are so engaged in their learning that they even forget that it is time to leave for lunch. Those times when you…
I have heard this said a lot lately that we must make ourselves uncomfortable in order to see real growth. That if we only do what we are used to and comfortable with, we will not be able to grow as we are just doing what we have always done. I think the phrase “That’s…
Over the summer one of my goals was to find a better way to share curated resources with others. I enjoy finding articles and other resources that I know can be helpful to teachers that I work with and making sure they have an easy way to access them. I have tried using various tools…
As our new school laptops do not have Microsoft Office installed, many people are going to have to learn how to use tools that are readily available to do what they were doing before. We have LibreOffice installed on the computers and of course we have access to Google Drive. Both of these allow us…
I started the summer by challenging myself to write a blog post every day about something we can do to improve instruction and learning in the classroom. The issue is that this is causing me to force ideas instead of coming to them naturally. So I am modifying my challenge to myself to keep focusing…
My summer is full of books that I either want to read or have to read. I have the text about cognitive psychology and learning I have to read for my Masters class, the book about instructional coaching I am reading as part of work I do with our other instructional coaches and then there…
Instead of a quick post about something you can change quickly in the classroom, I had another idea for today’s post and it was inspired by my son. My son is 3 years old and has no fear when it comes to trying out a new toy or anything else that he can play with.…
One of the things we had to do when I was student teaching involved recording a lesson we were teaching in order to better reflect on how we could improve. This was something that was very useful as a student teacher but is something that I have not really done much since then. Which is…
One of the things I loved when I was in a 1:1 classroom was that I was better able to make sure that everyone was able to ask questions and get the feedback that they needed and wanted. We know that we have certain students that will always ask a question and have no fear…
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