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8th grade professional development center pdfs
Teaching Collaboration: A 21st Century Skill
Do you teach collaboration skills? This is a great resource to use before students engage in a collaborative project or activity! The activities in this resource can be used in any content area across the curriculum to teach collaboration skills. During the first month of back to school or before students engage in collaborative learning, use the activities in this resource as a springboard to help students understand your expectations during cooperative learning assignments. The activities can
Grades:
3rd - 9th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Goals Checklist
Track those goals! This worksheet allows students to reflect on learning and/or personal goals with the added bonus of tracking success. This worksheet can be used with educators as a professional development tool or with students for classroom use. Hint: This printable can also be used as an awards chart for classroom incentives!
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Team Building activities: 50 D- ICE BREAKERS games for classroom community
Team Building Tasks Dice Game! (priced at 50% for 24 hours)Teacher or student teams roll a die to discover fun (or funny!) tasks and get to know you questions. Boost SEL/ social and emotional learning connections with silly challenges and questions to answer! The more we can know each other and play together, the better we can work together throughout the year! The Roll a Response Dice Game pairs well with the Visible Thinking Routine What makes you say that? where learners prompt each other to
Grades:
4th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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Guided Math Conferences (eBook)
This professional resource provides teachers with suggestions, tips, management, and implementation methods for using effective conferencing with students within the Guided Math framework. Templates, planning tools, and other resources are provided to help teachers stay organized and effective while conferring. Buy the physical book here.
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Grades:
K - 8th, Staff
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What is a Hypothesis? - Learning about the Nature of Science
This is a freebie from a course I teach called Exploring the Nature of Science.Understanding what a hypothesis is fundamental to understanding the Nature of Science, and developing Scientific Literacy. So I hope this information will help in someway.If you download this product, I would really appreciate feedback as I am continually looking for ways to improve my courses, and feedback really helps.
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Speak Up and Feel Heard - Active Participation Forms!
Newly updated with posters that inspire and brain facts that inform communication - your students will love using these interactive feedback forms that encourage all to speak up and feel heard!
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Enthusiasm grows for lessons as learners speak up about what they know and share what they wonder about interesting parts of their lesson topics.
Students are encouraged to speak up about team progress, and share personal evidence of their best contribut
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Tips to Improve Family Relationships pdf
Building closer family bondsGetting along with adult relativesImprovingrelationshipswithyouradult childrenReclaiming your adult siblingsImproving relationships with your etended family
Grades:
4th - 10th
Teaching Science Today 2nd Edition (eBook)
Implement engaging science lessons into your classroom that will intrigue, motivate, and groom students to be scientifically literate. This second edition book digs deep into Next Generation Science Standards as well as the Common Core State Standards to support teachers to enhance their instructional approach for teaching science concepts, skills, and processes. This teacher-friendly resource incorporates multiple, ready-to-implement approaches based on solid research, making this resource idea
Grades:
K - 12th
Building Literature Circles
Building Literature Circles
is a comprehensive book, with general information as well as an in-depth look at actual classroom experiences and teacher-tested suggestions. Section One discusses the "What, Who, When, Where, Why and How" of Literature Circles. General information about planning, training, getting started, managing the Literature Circle classroom, evaluation and grading is presented in this section of the book. Section Two reveals the anatomy of the Buck-Aydelott Model for a Literatu
Grades:
3rd - 9th
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Making Literature Circles Come Alive
Use literature circles to differentiate instruction using Novice, Developing, and Expert levels. To respond thoughtfully to top level questions, students must understand HOW to engage in high level thinking and questions.
Making Literature Circles Come Alive
lays a solid foundation and provides step-by-step plans and hands-on activities to directly teach students about high level thinking. Includes learning to recognize, develop, and classify high level questions using Bloom's Taxonomy; 12 easy-
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4th - 9th
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STEAM STERILIZATION: A MEDICAL, VOCATIONAL & HEALTH KNOWLEDGE ACTIVITY
This is a five page activity researching knowledge about the process of steam sterilization. It is good for a vocational knowledge background in this hospital-related procedure. Science is important in medicine. Thanks so much for visiting!
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
5 Original Methods to Support Textbook Reading
Are you tired of hearing sighs when its time to read the textbook in class? Your students WILL read their textbooks without complaint with these 5 original approaches to literacy supports. Regardless of the subject, from math to science to geography, each of the strategies described will allow you to engage students with a fresh approach to reading. We all know that students tire quickly of repeated exercises, which leads to apathy. By engaging your students with textbook reading strategies th
Grades:
5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Chatgpt Professional Development
This file was used as a professional development on AI to expose teachers to the basic of the use of AI in the classroom. Everything in yellow indicates a prompt given to AI followed by the response. At times, the prompts are oddly worded to expose teachers to certain AI capabilities. During the professional development session, teachers were given this file then asked to use their own work to follow the prompts in this file.
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
JOHNNY APPLESEED CRYPTOGRAM
This cryptogram has an interesting fact about John Chapman aka Johnny Appleseed. He actually became a land baron by planting apple orchards. Thanks for visiting the House of The Three Dinosaurs.
(The staff might actually enjoy solving this one!) Use it for a fun activity during a professional development session! Have a prize for the teacher who solves it first! A bit of Americana, and fun!
Grades:
4th - 9th, Staff
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SCIENCE WRITING/ RESEARCH PROMPT: FAIRY TALES
DOES READING FAIRY TALES MAKE A STUDENT OR CHILD SMARTER? THIS PROMPT INVOLVES RESEARCH, AND FORMULATING AN OPINION. THANKS EVER SO MUCH FOR VISITING THE HOUSE OF THE THREE DINOSAURS.
Grades:
6th - 9th, Staff
Technology for Educators
With technology in the classroom being so important in the 21st century, I have put together several websites, some of which can also be used with the iPad, that can be used to enhance and differentiate learning in the classroom. The following slide show introduces four different websites that can be used at any grade level, any subject area to enhance learning how you choose. The slides show you how to set up accounts for students and depending on how you use the free web 2.0 programs, these
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Dollar Store STEM: Classroom STEM gems for less than 30 cents per student
This is a conference/workshop proposal for interested conference organizers, schools or other organizations seeking STEM programming.
Participants will be able to enhance STEM instruction using DollarStoreSTEM.com and TED-Ed resources.
This workshop will lead participants through various aspects of DollarStoreSTEM.com, a TED-Ed Innovative Educator Project. This resource presents engaging lessons that are...
affordable (free or less than 30 cents per student!)
accessible (kid-tested and execut
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Grades:
K - 12th, Staff
How to Price Your 3D Print
Before you start printing, we'll need to determine how much your print will cost to print. As an educator you have a great opportunity to generate some money for your classroom 3d printer needs and pay for much needed filament, blue painters tape or anything related to the your makerspace environment. When I discovered that my students can invent products for the school that filled a student or faculty need we were off and running making anything that would generate a profit. From Trumpet mou
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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[PDF] Literacy Coach's Toolkit
Proven Strategies for Teaching Listening ComprehensionThis toolkit offers listening comprehension strategies that can be used in a variety of contexts with a multitude of audio stories, along with sample lessons based on audio stories from the Listenwise collection. These listening comprehension strategies address two of the eight listening comprehension strands assessed through Listenwise quizzes. These strategy lessons have been developed by Dr. Michael Opitz, co-author of Listen Hear! in coll
Grades:
5th - 12th
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