Pear Fair = Back to School PD

 

From their website, "Educators and administrators, Pear Fair is back with another hit virtual event designed to energize and equip you with the resources you need to make this year a success!  Our essential back-to-school sessions feature educational thought leaders discussing returning to the classroom, SEL, engaging every learner, and more! With two learning tracks — one focused on best practices using Pear Deck and GoGuardian, another focused on pedagogy and the topics educators are discussing most today — you have plenty of options for your personal PD. Choose one track to stick with all day, or pick and choose the sessions from both tracks that best fit your needs. Reserve your spot today!  Don’t wait! The first 1,000 registrants will be entered to win a Pear Fair swag pack.".  To see the registration page click here.

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10 Minute Teacher Podcast

 

From the Google podcast website, "Join  teacher Vicki Davis as she dives into what matters most to classroom teachers. The best and brightest educators and idea creators will inspire you as they are interviewed on this show. You'll learn behind the scenes tips, classroom ideas, and practical mindsets for anyone working with today's kids."  To see her podcast website click here.

PD Day

 Students enjoy your day off before Quad 3 starts.  Teachers enjoy your staff meeting and getting your grades in.  I will be posting good "stuff" again starting tomorrow.  Enjoy.

professional learning opportunities

Glenn Wiebe posted about 75 professional learning opportunities happening this summer.  To take a look at these click here.

Economic Webinars

If you are teaching Economics and would like to attend a webinar you might want to check this site out.  Here is what they say on their site, "The Council for Economic Education is pleased to offer professional development webinars for teachers nationwide. The webinars cover multiple topics on how to integrate personal finance and economics in the classroom and create a fun learning experience for your students.

When you attend the webinar(s), you will leave with relevant lessons, resources and tools that can be implemented the next day. Also, New York State teachers earn one Continuing Education Unit (CEU) for each webinar. If you are interested, but cannot attend the live webinar, please register to get access to the archived version. You must attend a live webinar or listen to a recorded webinar for at least 45 minutes in order to receive a certificate."

To see the website click here.

PD Driven by Assesment

ASCD Smartbrief had a recent poll of teachers about PD.

Wow, roughly 46% of those polled had little or none of their PD driven by assessment. As teachers our instruction of students is driven primarily by assessment of our students.  If we don't we have some serious explaining to do.  However it does not look like some boards have the same consideration for their employees when the shoe is on the other foot.  I know our board does once a year when we have PD by department but how about the other PD days.  Just a thought.  What do you think?

Teacher Professional Development and MOOCS

I blogged earlier about Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCS).  See my post on May 2 2013 by clicking here.

 Coursera was one of them and has now added a new category of courses that I thought might interest you, Teacher Professional Development.  To see the course selection click here.