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Professional development simulations
Arctic Survival Activity (For Team-Building, Group Dynamics, and Personality)
This cooperative learning activity pits learners and their groups against survival experts to see if they can survive a plane crash in the arctic. Will they make more sound decisions individually, or as a group? How do groups reach consensus? What sort of identities, personalities, or traits tend to dominate group discussion or group activities? These questions and more lie underneath the surface of a classic and beloved classroom activity!These topics and more are broached in this product, whi
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in:Â Full Year of U.S. Government and Civics Essentials Bundle
Coffee Break ESCAPE! Use Breakout EDU for Teacher / Faculty Growth Mindset PD!
Ditch the stand and deliver staff meeting for a game-changing approach to faculty PD that helps model best practices with high impact teaching strategies! It's the first day of school, and all the coffee in the building has gone missing. But with hundreds of students scheduled to arrive in mere minutes, the faculty is facing a level five caffeine shortage. If you have any hope of surviving the first day of students, your teachers will need their java, STAT! Can you master growth mindset to pop o
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Disability Awareness Activities
The SMART notebook provides the user with activities for participants to engage in that simulate various learning challenges. It is appropriate for students or for adults in a professional development seminar.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Power Tools Selector
Empower your teaching with the Power Tools Strategies Selector, a meticulously designed Google Form tailored to aid educators in selecting optimal strategies from the powerful quartet of Retrieval, Spacing, Interleaving, and Feedback-Driven Metacognition. Crafted by seasoned educators, this tool simplifies the process of identifying and implementing strategies that resonate with your students' needs, ensuring enhanced learning outcomes and mastery of learning objectives.Features:Comprehensive St
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Artificial Intelligence Presentation for Teachers
Step into the exciting world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with our comprehensive presentation and hands-on activity bundle designed specifically for educators. Whether you're a seasoned tech enthusiast or new to the concept, this resource will equip you with the knowledge and tools to integrate AI seamlessly into your classroom.Presentation Highlights:Dynamic and engaging slides crafted to demystify AI concepts for educators of all backgrounds.Guidance on fostering critical thinking skills an
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Adult Education, Staff
Also included in:Â Introducing AI to Teachers Bundle
Parent Communication: An IEP Case Study in Four Steps (Written and Simulation)
This is an exercise for college students and teachers to practice communication and conferencing skills with parents. Objectives:- Encourage and seek participation from parents and colleagues in a mock IEP meeting. - Demonstrate respect of family culture when interacting. - Write effective emails with a positive opening comment, a body with a short paragraph for each point, and a closing statement with follow up planned. - Plan phone calls and conferences reflecting a positive opening comment, c
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Higher Education, Staff
Spoons Acvivity - Classroom Community and Leadership
Want to build classroom community while teaching about mental health? This is the perfect lesson for you! Easy to follow instructions and kinetic learning. Students may be of any age (adult learner-friendly). Spoon's theory is that we only have so much mental and physical energy every day. To quantify this energy we visualize the energy units as spoons. This activity walks students through a hands-on learning lesson where each group must create a daily agenda for an imaginary person. St
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Camp Counselor Boundaries Training: A Must-Have Toolkit for a Successful Summer
Equip your camp counselors and CITs with the essential skills for maintaining healthy boundaries in the dynamic summer camp environment! Our comprehensive training presentation, available on Teachers Pay Teachers, is specifically tailored to empower your staff with the knowledge and strategies needed to create a safe, positive, and respectful camp atmosphere. Key Features:Interactive Scenarios: Dive into realistic camp scenarios to help counselors and CITs navigate potential boundary challenges
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"Make The Call" - Mastering the Art of Telephone Communication for Teachers
Does making a difficult phone call home to your parent group stress you out? And, as a result, do you avoid it? And then, you agonize & fixate about writing the perfect email - which takes way too long. Rest easy, this course solution will be of great help to you. There is no need to feel anxious about picking up the telephone to speak to one of your student's parents. Inside this course, Jen breaks down a real world sample call home. You will get to hear the whole phone call in its entiret
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Screencast-o-matic
Screencasting is the single biggest "game changer" in educational technology today. Imagine not writing substitute plans and simply saying "play this video". You can talk to your students and show them the assignment yourself. Imagine that struggling student at home studying and he or she can hear YOUR voice and YOUR words explaining difficult concepts. Imagine that different way of learning math as explained by YOU to students and parents. Screencast o magic is a free tool that allows you
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Bank Pretend Play Dramatic Play
Pretend bank savings information
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in:Â Bank Pretend Play Dramatic Play
Interview Questionnaire
This interview form has 11 questions, and some are multiple choice, and some are open-ended questions. All of them are thought-provoking, and the notes (included as the preview file) will discuss some of the aspects of the candidate interview. A great preparation tool for those that want practice, and certainly usable for screening applicants.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Social Media Content Project
This project is designed to allow students to gain experience by creating and tracking the patterns of social media content. Enclosed is the outline of the project. There is a separate file for the tracker.
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10th - 12th
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University Admissions Interview Questions and Answers Descriptions
By creating a "fake" university, this activity helps students practice their English listening and speaking skills by answering potential questions presented to them from universities. Students might not understand the interview questions, so the answer descriptions section can help them understand what is asked from them, and how they can answer by applying transition words.
After students review their questions, they can sit down with you for 3 to 5 minutes to answer as many questions as you
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
Virtual Testing Bin (All School Testing Training Support)
Help prepare your test room supervisors for an exciting round of all school testing with this Virtual Testing Bin activity. Think of it as a sort of museum exhibit that is focused on All School Testing (so, possibly the worst museum exhibit ever).Share this activity with staff who are being trained, and they will go through the process of unpacking a testing bin. It will explain the importance of every object included in an all school testing kit.This is an activity to help staff "live through
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Not Grade Specific
STRATEGIES FOR GLOBAL STUDIES - WORLD HISTORY CLASS DISCUSSIONS
I'm a recently retired, award winning, HS Global Studies teacher, and currently I teach, part - time, in the Education Department of Salve Regina University, and in the Political Science Dept. at the University of Rhode Island. (See my profile.) If you polled my ex-students, and my current students, as to what they liked best about my classes, the most common response you would hear would be "the class discussions." It took me a while to get good at it, and now it seems like child's play, but i
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Lightning Decision Jam for School Leaders
The Lightning Decision Jam (LDJ) is a shortened version of the Decision Sprint (from Google's Jake Knapp) with the purpose of moving leadership teams (or even individual teachers) from problem to testable solution in 90 minutes. The LDJ was developed by Berlin-based design firm AJ and Smart to help teams get unstuck and start to get things done. This version of LDJ has been tested with multiple leadership teams and includes examples of how school leaders can apply this approach. I rewrote the
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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