Automated Transcript for the webinar below Well hi, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me for this webinar on effective teaching. Today, I’m going to be talking to you guys about about effective teaching strategies. The first thing that I want us to do is to go over the goals of what I want […]
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Know your students and how they learn
https://youtu.be/dM_wO6_-miw The teaching standard “Know your students and how they learn” has 6 areas of focus but can generally be broken up into two aspects, knowledge of your students and understanding how students learn. Know your students The focus here is really on the students in your classroom. How well do you know them? Are […]
Smashing 3 common excuses not to flip your classroom
1. What if the students don’t watch the videos? This is by far the most common objection I hear when it comes to flipping classrooms. Teachers fear coming into their classroom and having only a portion of their students who have watched the video, while others have not. “Why go to the effort of making […]
5 tips to ensure your students engage and grow using Socratic Seminars
1. Use sentence starters Often students are unsure how they should start their statements or questions in group discussions and can shy away from participation. Providing them with sentence starters can really help empower these students to contribute more to the seminars. A few examples of sentence starters that could be shared with the students […]
What is a Socratic Seminar?
I first came across socractic seminars when learning about flipped learning. This might sound strange, but actually, flipping your classroom allows for better use of class time and using a socractic seminar in your classroom is a fantastic use of this limited resource because it helps to students to engage with content knowledge, collaborate, learn […]
What is flipped Learning… It’s not what you think!
Many people think flipped learning is simply sending a video home, But they are wrong! Flipped learning or flipped classroom as it is often called is not just sending a video home for homework and then doing what used to be homework in the classroom! Flipped learning is so much more than that, and flipping […]
7 ways Flipped Learning can Modernise your Classroom and Improve Student Learning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8BpN2wGpH4It takes a lot of time and a lot of effort to flip your classroom, but as the motto goes in my household and in my classrooms: We Do Hard Things! But flipped learning makes such a fantastic different to your classroom making it worth all that effort (plus you save yourself time and effort later). […]
Why I love InsertLearning
What is InsertLearning InsertLearning is a Google Chrome Extension that allows teachers to insert instructional content on any web-page. It is a Tech tool that when assigned allows your students to engage with the web-page – answering questions, posting in chats and following along to you annotations on the web-page. The video above is a […]
Google for Education Innovator Sydney 2019
Over the last week I have been privileged enough to attend the Google for Education Innovator Academy in Sydney 2019. These days were fantastic for growing me as both a teacher and an innovator. The innovator program begins by you identifying a problem within education as a whole, or locally at your school or some […]
Why you should use Google Chrome
There are so many different web browsers out there currently, and choosing the right one, or switching from the one you have used for so long can seem difficult or maybe your just not sure why you should switch to something else. Well, let me give you a few reasons why you should choose to […]