Happy New Year! We’re back and ready for a great 2020! This week we spoke with 5th Grade Teacher Heather Grimaldi from Frank H. Freedman Elementary School. Learn how she is integrating technology throughout her Math and Science class.
Here we are again with another series of posts where we are trying to figure out what each of these terms are and aren’t and they relate to how we teach. Over the next few weeks we will look at these three terms and include practical ways you can implement them into your classroom. I promise this though, it will take some work to set up any of these learning styles in your classroom. Problem Based Learning, Project Based Learning and/or Challenge-Based Learning helps students develop skills for being 21st Century Learners. …
Check out this week’s podcast episode featuring Sarah Varnauskas from Alice Beal school here in Springfield, MA! This veteran teacher is doing some awesome things in her classroom so listen in!
Learn how to make interactive content in your online classroom to make it come alive. H5P is a tool that allows the user to create interactive content.
Check out the latest episode of the SPS Digital Learning Hour featuring Sarah Tobias of Sci Tech!
More and more classrooms are now learning, creating, reading, and testing online. To keep up with our technologically demanding lifestyles, the traditional classroom is making way for such innovative tools as wiki. It’s also a fun way to engage students in content across the curriculum.
Do you ever run into teachers who come up to you with different challenges using technology? Learn what some of the common issues are and how you can help them overcome those issues in the latest blog post.
For this week’s blog post I wanted to test myself, think outside my box and come up with a lesson idea for Mathematics in High School. My background does not include High School Mathematics from the teacher perspective, I remember several Algebra and Geometry lessons and I also remember saying, “I’m never going to use this in real life”. Does anyone else remember those thoughts or am I the only one? To challenge myself I first had to become with…
For this week’s interview I sat down with William Aye, 4th grade teacher over at Lincoln Elementary School and discussed what he is doing in the classroom with his students. Next week: We will not have an episode, as I will be at Masscue presenting on how we are using this podcast to give teacher’s voice in our district. I am planning on recording the sessions and if all goes well, I will post it next Friday! Articles & Sites…
If you haven’t heard, The Computer Science for All (CSforAll) project in Springfield, which began in the district last year, is moving full steam ahead. We’re in our second year of implementation now and it’s continuing to grow. As our world is changing, we want to make sure we are preparing our students for the future by strenghting thier problem solving and computational thinking skills. These skills are paramount for our students to be successful whether they are going to college…