Create a post from the types below.
Professional Learning (PL) Tag
Professional Learning (PL)
true
Results
-
Accessibility Features: Staying Persistent with Learners
In coaching work, I've seen many learners resist or outright reject accessibility features that would make their lives easier, or provide more opportunity to access content. I have my own theories ab…
-
Helping all students with reading
Twenty-one years into teaching in #D214, I've been spending a crazy amount of time looking for and creating materials. Whether in my EL or regular social science classes, there is a huge range of rea…
-
Shifting Mindsets through Professional Learning
What was a professional learning experience that gave you an a-ha moment, sparked curiosity & wonder, created a thoughtful pause for you as a learner, or shifted your instructional practice? I w…
-
Sustaining Motivation
Any ideas on how to build capacity and sustain motivation of Apple Teachers and mentors in a large school district? We have over 70,000 students, and we are 1:1 ipads in grades K-1. I am looking for …
-
Encouraging Teachers to Explore the Apple Education Community
I consider myself so lucky to be working in an iPad school. We're 1-1 from Year 4 onwards and our younger years have 1 iPad for every 2 or 3 students. What a joy to have such an opportunity to work a…
-
Day 1- Apple Learning Academy - Education Coaching
The first day at Apple Learning Academy was a robust opportunity for critical thinking and conversations around creativity, building culture and enhancing personalized learning. We developed a workin…
-
Elementary Coaching Cycles
I am an elementary library media specialist who shares the tech coach role with one of the classroom teachers in our 1-to-1 iPad building to provide support for staff members. We would like to implem…
-
Feedback Activities - "Speed Dating" & Gallery Walk
Speed Dating: The initial homework assignment was to create an asset for a 2-minute pitch. During class, chairs were organized in pairs. One of the chairs were marked with a sticky note. The person s…
-
Learning Stop Animation
A fun way to teach students how to create with stop motion. Students could then use the skill to show various learning skills. I made this after following the directions in Everyone Can Create Proje…
-
Apple Teacher Incentives
Does anyone have any recommendations for creative ways to incentivize teachers for completing their Apple Teacher?
-
CRA Math strategy using Freeform
Instead of using the actually whiteboard in my classroom, I made a digital whiteboard with preset problems and a worked solution to prepare for my 5th grade math lesson! Love Freeform!
-
Creativity Matters
Imagine walking into a classroom and students are all engaged, creating products along the same content area or topic, and every product looks different.
-
Professional Learning Documentation Journal
This journal is designed to be used by teachers over the course of a year. Each month they can add pictures of there: learning, artifacts, documents, and handouts… Teachers can add voice and text for…
-
Coding To The Core
During my Apple Professional Learning Specialist training, I created a poster showing the reasons I believe coding should be integrated into all the core subjects. I believe, especially in elementary…
-
What Did I learn?
I used to think that utilizing all the tools on the iPad may be too overwhelming for each and every one of my students. Now I know that with the students' ease of access to electronics and being in a…
-
Goal: Apple Distinguished Educator Title
When applying to become an ADE, what are some innovative ways to capture the three themes (1. Transforming your learning environment, 2. Evidence of your success, 3. Extending your reach) within 2 mi…
-
Getting Leadership Buy-in From the New Regime
In 2016 our District adopted iPads as our 1:1 device in grades K-8. This decision was made by the Superintendent, the Director of Curriculum and Instruction, and the Director of Technology. All 3 o…
-
Assembling a Dynamic Team to support moving the work forward...
So l've learned that leadership buy in is a big deal when it comes to moving any work forward.Connecting with leaders is a necessity to unify the vision. Leaders need to assemble a dynamic team to su…
-
To collaborate or not, that is the question…
For elementary level teachers, how are you using the collaboration mode in Keynote/Pages/Numbers in you classroom? Does it work well for you? Are there any drawbacks?
-
Fish Bowl
I love the idea of having a fish bowl co-planning session during a PLC. Can anyone tell me of some barriers or successful strategies I need to consider?
