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Professional development simulations for GATE
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: Full Year of U.S. Government and Civics Essentials Bundle
Instructional Strategies Poster Set {Marzano's 9 "High Yield" Strategies}
New teacher? Veteran teacher? Instructional Coach? These high yield strategies are perfect for all situations that involve instructing students and teachers :) Many current evaluations for teacher effectiveness measure an instructor's ability to select strategies based on a foundational evidence, in other words strategies that have been tested and researched, and why not? With as hard as we work, we should strive to use what has been proven effective. Marzano's nine high yield strategies have a
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Gifted and Talented Activities | GATE Program Support | For Teachers or Parents
Do you have a GIFTED and TALENTED program in place?Are you looking to get started with teaching a GATE Program?This informational resource is the WHY of having a GATE Program for gifted learners.Browse a wide range of GIFTED RESOURCES and ACTIVITIES. Click the link belowGATER Educator's GIFTED Resources• Gifted learners exhibit many of the same academic needs and social and emotional characteristics. • Gifted students thrive with activities that provide novelty and opportunities to solve problem
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3rd - 8th
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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Gifted and Talented - Giftedness and Brain Friendly Learning
Are you looking for the best way to successfully support gifted learners in your class? Do parents want assurance that their child's needs are being met? If so, this valuable resource may be a great starting point! With over 20 years of experience as a GATE parent and teacher, this resource delivers simple ideas that can help meet the educational needs of all children. Educators are uniquely placed to make a real difference in the lives of gifted learners. Whether it’s parents asking for support
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3rd - 7th, Staff
Gifted Education Presentation to Classroom Teachers, Gifted and Talented Program
I used this to present about gifted ed to our elementary school staff. While the presentation covers everything from academic, social, and emotional needs of gifted students it also helps classroom teachers with understanding who to refer for gifted testing. Stephanie Tolan's article "Is it a Cheetah" was the main resource used for the presentation. She captures the essence of these children who maybe aren't the "teacher pleasers," but are in fact gifted and need gifted services and support i
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Staff
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.
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Increasing Student Engagement: Tools to Diversify Your Lesson Plans!
Student Engagement | Engaging Middle School | Middle School Engagement Ideas | Middle School Lesson Plans | Middle School Teaching Tools
Engaging our students is often our most challenging task as teachers. Yet we know how vital this engagement is for our students’ learning processes and motivation. The purpose of this product is to provide you with new ideas to add to your teacher toolbox.
Over 50 strategies are included!
These are all ideas that you can take directly to your class and try
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5th - 9th
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Learning Contracts with examples(Editable resource)
Learning Contracts are written agreements between students and teachers that grant the student certain freedoms and choices about completing tasks yet require the student to meet certain specifications. They outline what the students will learn, how they will learn it, how long they will have to learn it, and how they will be graded or evaluated.This 11 pages resource includes:Detailed explanation of learning contracts, and 3 different examples of learning contracts and templates
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2nd - 12th, Staff
Also included in: Gifted and Talented editable forms, presentations & PD
Differentiation for Gifted Students
This power point is perfect for a teacher of gifted and talented students to use during a faculty meeting of regular education teachers to explain what differentiation is, its misuses with gifted students, describes the types, and its effectiveness among gifted and talented students.
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2nd - 5th
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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Not Grade Specific
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: 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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Academic Achievement & Gifted Underachievers PowerPoint Professional Development
Academic Achievement and Gifted Underachievers PowerPoint. Explains the characteristics of a gifted underachiever, concerns about gifted learners who do not reach their potential, and how to help these students become successful. This is a professional development presentation to help teachers recognize and teach gifted students not meeting standards. Includes types of underachievers, suggestions for motivating students and some famous underachievers. Helpful for gifted teachers and regular clas
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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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Professional Development: Teaching Students to be Critical Thinkers
Teachers love learning about Instructional Strategies that are easy to implement and provide engaging and thought-provoking opportunities for learning. The goal in this presentation was to provide teachers with simple additions to their everyday teaching that can provide that little "extra" to encourage more critical thinking in the classroom.
This presentation includes plenty of examples of how to use Inductive Reasoning, Providing Comfortable Struggle, Disabling Intuition, and Group Investi
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High Ability/ Gifted Parent Presentation
Looking for a great presentation for parent night or to share with other teachers about what gifted/high ability program might look like? This is a ready made PowerPoint that covers the basics in a general way. You can show these slides and use them as a spring board to discuss what your specific program will look like. This presentation includes:
*Creativity *Math *Language Arts *Reading *Opportunities to Grow *Social/Emotional *Differentiation *Focus on Growth
-All 11 slides are the
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2nd - 6th
Gifted and Talented Information Meeting for Parents and Staff
This Power-point presentation very clearly and accurately explains the many characteristics and needs of gifted learners. As a school counselor, I created this presentation and have used it with both families and teachers to show the differences between gifted learners and high achievers. The presentation includes fifteen professional slides with research-based facts and accompanying cartoons or captions to help the audience relate to the content. The last slide is the testing timeline for my
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Flipped Classroom Letter
This letter describes what a flipped classroom is, why you might incorporate flipped classroom work into your school, and data to support using a flipped classroom (from sources as listed on the document).
This document is perfect for sharing with staff when introducing a flipped classroom or for sharing with parents!
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K - 12th, Staff
The Teacher's Book of BIG Questions
When should we be asking questions?
The short answer: all the time. As teachers we’ve all fallen into the trap of giving students answers rather than encouraging them to think for themselves. Questions encourage the students to do the “heavy lifting” instead of the teachers. Plus, good questions are motivating and engaging, serving as great hooks for learning. Because we want this book to be useful to as many teachers as possible, we’ve provided questions to go along with different types of con
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26:53
"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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Infographic Project Teacher PD with Certificate, Checklists & Resources PBL
Learn about infographics, the best pedagogy to practice teaching this digital skill, and how to design and plan a comprehensive PBL infographic project for students to practice design thinking when presenting information from their research findings. This Teacher professional development provides you with what you need and sets you up to be the infographic expert in your department, grade level, or school, PLUS earn a 2-HR Teacher PD certificate for your efforts and investment!Here's everything
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10th - 12th, Staff
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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Not Grade Specific
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