Vicki A. Davis's Blog, page 25
October 31, 2022
A Simple Teacher Habit Tracker
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis
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For each class, I have three things I have to do each day: lesson plans in Chalk, Google classroom assignments updated, and then I have to go back and grade the work for the day. Using a sharpie marker and a simple template I made in Canva, where I am with those habits, is a quick glance away.
The Quick Glance Can Be PowerfulI've been thinking about this concept o...
October 26, 2022
Meet TARA: Your New Teacher Headquarters
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Organizing lesson plans, units, resources, links, IEP’s, and IEP meetings can be cumbersome and stressful. In this blog post, I’ll share my review of TARA, the Teacher HQ for Resources and Administration. Their stated goal is to prevent teacher burnout. In addition to sharing about the tool, you should also check out their 60+ tools for Student Engagement, and I’ll s...
September 25, 2022
How to use Notion
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Today's guest, Chris Chappotin, shares how he uses Notion to organize himself. He talks about how to get started and why people use it. This is a quick seven-minute overview podcast and I've also included many resources to get started with Notion.
How I Use Notion in the ClassroomRecently, my students wrote a website on Web 3.0 using Notion. Notion is the closest r...
September 6, 2022
Back to School with more free, NEW lessons from EVERFI
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Since last year’s post, 15 Real World Lessons You Can Teach Students Now, the free resources at EVERFI have just grown. From Financial Literacy to Mental Wellness to the Metaverse or vocabulary for younger children, EVERFI has even more free, world-class resources for you to use with your students. In this post, I’ll share some new fantastic (and free) resources for...
September 5, 2022
Differentiating Instruction in Kindergarten and Elementary Grades with Laura Robb
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Reading instruction can be challenging when a teacher has many different ability levels in her classroom. Furthermore, kindergarten and elementary grades are fundamental. Reading expert, Laura Robb breaks down excellent reading instruction from kindergarten through fifth grade. Dr. Robb has written more than 25 books on reading but also takes 3-4 months each school y...
August 23, 2022
eSpark: The FREE Differentiation Tool for Elementary Reading and Math
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Do you have students at many grade levels in your classroom? Do you find it hard to differentiate? Do you spend lots of time looking for fun, engaging activities to teach your students? eSpark is a free no-prep solution that teachers of math and reading at the elementary level need to try. eSpark is simple and easy to use. So it is understandable why teachers who use...
August 17, 2022
How to Teach AI with Experiments & Ethics
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Artificial intelligence (AI) experiments can open up discussion of the human aspect of training algorithms and help them improve. In this podcast episode, Roberta Freitas shares AI Experiments that any teacher can use with students. Additionally, we discuss the morals and ethics of Artificial intelligence and the responsibility of users to report issues of bias and c...
August 7, 2022
Graphic Design for Educators
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Graphic Design helps us present in more interesting ways, teach better, and communicate better. Not only do educators need to understand effective graphic design, we need to teach it. Sadie Lewis helps educators understand and teach graphic design in this quick, helpful show full of graphic design resources for educators. Make sure to scroll down to see the resource...
August 6, 2022
8 Ways to Engage Readers with Readlee’s AI Reading Teacher Support
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Readlee supports readers as students read into their personal devices. It easily identifies struggling readers, monitors progress, and automates differentiated scaffolding for your readers. Harvard researchers have reviewed how students read, teachers receive actionable data, and provide feedback to students to improve reading. So, here comes Readlee.
Readlee was crea...
July 31, 2022
The Future of EdTech
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Education technology has good uses, but as we’ve moved through the pandemic, sometimes it may have been mis-implemented or implemented without teacher PD. As a result, technostress has impacted teachers negatively. Today’s guest, Al Kingsley, has worked with edtech for over thirty years. He shares observations on where education technology is and where it is going in...
