by Sarah Brown Wessling | May 13, 2020 | For Your Classroom, Professional Learning, Technology Tools
Engaging Students in Online Productive Group Work In our urgency to put content in front of our students, it’s easy to slip into assigning a lot of independent work, which can be a shock for students who are used to guided instruction and collaborative work....
by Sarah Brown Wessling | Apr 27, 2020 | For Your Classroom, Professional Learning
Teaching Student to Think: YOUR QUESTIONS This playlist of videos was created based on questions I often get from teachers who are doing the tough, complex work of designing instruction that helps students learn to think. In these videos, I tackle their questions and...
by Sarah Brown Wessling | Apr 27, 2020 | For Your Classroom, Professional Learning
Unit Design: A Think Aloud Sometimes unit design can feel like a liberating opportunity to imagine learning in new ways. Other times it can feel overwhelming, because we’re filling out the appropriate documents, but not necessarily understanding...
by Sarah Brown Wessling | Apr 27, 2020 | For Your Classroom, Technology Tools
Using Shared Slide Decks for Reflection and Discussion This strategy isn’t about the tool as much as it as about the possibilities. I’ll share how I’m using it in this particular example, but also offer several iterations to jump start your own...
by Sarah Brown Wessling | Apr 22, 2020 | For Your Classroom
Voice Memo Feedback for Students I’ve been using voice memo feedback for students since I was a student teacher lugging around cassette tapes for each student so I could record feedback for them. Now, there are all kinds of apps and extensions we can access to...
by Sarah Brown Wessling | Apr 14, 2020 | For Your Classroom, Technology Tools
Student Well-Being Survey If you want to check in, at any time, on your students’ well-being, here’s a quick way to use a GoogleForm and a few questions to help. Although I created this at the start of the Covid-19 school closing, it could be useful...
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