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September 24, 2018
How to Make a Yearbook with Google Slides
Jennifer Scott on episode 367 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast
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Jennifer Scott saves her school tens of thousands as they make their yearbook with Google Slides. She’ll also announce a giveaway of her new course that teaches you how to do it. Let’s dig into making yearbooks with Google Slides!
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September 23, 2018
MasterMind Educator Groups: Build Safe Spaces for Innovation
Rebecca Mieliwocki on episode 366 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast
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Mastermind groups are innovative ways to create safe spaces for teachers to grow and learn together. In this show, 2012 National Teacher of the Year Rebecca Mieliwocki shares how she has facilitated Mastermind groups successfully. She talks about the pitfalls and challenges of creating spaces to innovate and why mastermind groups aren’t for every t...
Meet The Inspiring Elementary Spanish Teacher #GiveGreatness
Meet Evelyn Hamlin
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis
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So many teachers never get the credit they deserve. Evelyn Hamlin is a teacher who teaches her whole elementary curriculum in Spanish. She received recognition from her school and students recently with a surprise event at her school hosted by SMART.
There are so many inspiring teachers out there. I appreciate that SMART is taking time to encourage those teachers who give greatness every single...
September 20, 2018
5 Ways to Teach Digital Citizenship (and the 9 Key P’s of Digital Citizenship)
Episode 365 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast
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What are the essential things we need to teach students about digital citizenship? How can we simply help them understand using examples and research (because we know lecture doesn’t work so well on this topic.) All of the nine topics that I like to teach begin with P: passwords, property, photographs, permissions, privacy, professionalism, permanence, and protection.
...September 19, 2018
14 Million People Read Her Classroom Tweet About 1 Question She Asks Students
André Sasser on episode 364 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast
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André Sasser, a 9-year math teacher, tweeted something that has been viewed by 14 million people. This simple statement has transformed Andre’s classroom in powerful ways. Learn about the question and the changes that have made her math classroom a more exciting place.
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Geo-Inquiry in Project Based Learning
Jim Bentley on episode 363 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast
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Geo-inquiry helps students learn through geographic based explorations. Geo-inquiry expert Jim Bentley (author of the free National Geographic Geo-Inquiry Educator Guide) talks about what this project-based learning method looks like in his fifth-grade classroom. He shares examples of what he has done, challenges, and some of the mistakes he made at first...
September 18, 2018
3 Interesting Trends in Online Education Content (That You May Not Know)
Andrew Pass on episode 362 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast
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Online content should be riveting, interesting, and should educate students. Andrew Pass talks about trends in online education and shares the trends we should understand as educators. He also shares his thoughts on where virtual reality (VR) is now and where it needs to go in education.
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September 17, 2018
How to Unleash Student Motivation to Succeed
Chris Holmes on episode 361 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast
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As many educators know who have studied the growth mindset, teaching motivation and metacognitive principles is challenging. While he started as a journalism teacher, now Chris works with students to try to help them understand motivation and success principles. He will share with us what works (and doesn’t) and also will tackle misconceptions and misap...
September 14, 2018
5 Ideas to Experience Inquiry in Your Classroom
Kimberly Mitchell in Episode 360 of the 10-Minute Teacher
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Kimberly Mitchell talks about how we can promote inquiry in the classroom. From helping students to effectively generate questions to modeling curiosity, we have five practical ideas to bring inquiry into our classroom.
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