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Approaches to Learning

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Using Games to Teach Complex Concepts

Excitement is easy to stir up when you frame something as a game and add a bit of competition to the process of thinking and learning. In this session, teachers...
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Excitement is easy to stir up when you frame something as a game and add a bit of competition to the process of thinking and learning. In this session, teachers will practice creating two different types of games that can be used to cover the content and apply skills. We will identify when a game is a good match for a topic and learn how to pair common actions to vocabulary, processes, and the structure of a game. Assignment ideas, pacing, and assessment will be discussed to make it possible not only to create teacher-designed games but to guide your students to design their own games as well.

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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Standards and Assessments

Helping Students Give Kind and Useful Critical Feedback

One of the tools of student-centered teaching is the peer review process. In this technique, students gather in small groups and present their work to one another. The audience of...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Remote Teaching and Learning

Using Debates to Teach Evidence-based Reasoning

An exciting way to engage your students in their online class is to use a topic that sparks discussion, research, and the desire to sleuth out additional information. In this...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Remote Teaching and Learning

Making Thinking Visible

One of the gifts of teaching in a distance learning environment is the documentation that occurs as students complete and submit work. Each step of the thinking process is recorded...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Remote Teaching and Learning

Using Team Challenges to Foster Collaboration

Whether for STEM, foreign language, arts, or humanities, applying information is one of the most effective ways for a student to increase their level of understanding and for a teacher...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Standards and Assessments

Developing and Using Models Part 1

In this workshop, we will explore 2-dimensional modeling for use in Next Generation science and math courses. Whether it is a schematic diagram, a systems map, a simulation, a graph...
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Developing and Using Models Part 2

In this 1.5-hour workshop, we will explore 3-dimensional modeling for use in Next Generation science and math courses. Helping prepare students for a career in science or mathematics requires a...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Remote Teaching and Learning

Using Stop-animation Videos to Learn Concepts

Combat attrition with engaging assignments that can be sculpted to the student’s abilities and interest. Stop-animation videos are a short movies made with a series of photos taken from the...
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Helping Students Discern Fact from Fiction

Information is available from an unlimited number of sources and accessible to anyone. And, anyone who desires can make information available to the masses regardless of its factual or fictitious...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Math-infused Science | Remote Teaching and Learning

Using Puzzles to Teach Pattern Recognition

In this 1.5 hr. workshop, teachers will work individually and then as a team to identify a pattern in puzzle pieces that are tell the story of a theorem, function,...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Standards and Assessments

Incorporating Critical Thinking and Differentiation into Project-based Learning Outcomes

Participants in this 1.5 hr. workshop, will compare project-based learning outcomes and use their analysis to backward map the lesson such that it hits the skills and thinking objectives desired....
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Using Competitions to Engage Online or In-person Learners

Competitions are assignments that guide students through a preliminary exploration, data collection, analysis, reflection, and revision in a repeating cycle. This process leans on the scientific method and helps students...
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Interpreting and Creating Systems Models

Systems models are diagrams or infographics that contain multiple lines of evidence and data within a single visual presentation. Increasingly used across all subject areas, these graphics can be challenging...
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Helping Students Identify Logical Fallacies

Fallacies are errors in reasoning that undermine the logic of an argument. However, fallacies do not necessarily weaken the impact of the argument—on the contrary, fallacies are employed as persuasive...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Standards and Assessments

Writing Easy-to-Use Rubrics

In this 1.5 hr. workshop, participants will practice writing rubrics with the intent of assessing the attainment of specific content and skills standards. We will explore how rubrics can be...
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Offering Choice Menus for Differentiated Assessment

Participants will be given an example of a choice menu to see how this assessment tool can be used within an online or in-person class. Assessment menus allow greater autonomy...
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Process Portfolios to Document Thinking and Learning

This 1.5 hr. workshop is dedicated to making thinking “visible” by documenting what influences a student’s thought process and by keeping track of the changes that occur when additional information...
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Creating a Continuous Cycle of Inquiry in Your Course

Although there are many authors who cite their model or use their preferred terms, the cycle of inquiry essentially boils down to actions the student takes to apply concepts and...
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Vertical Team Planning for a Reduced Syllabus in Science

This workshop is aimed at bringing K-12 teachers together to identify the essential skills that need to be targeted in a curriculum that is reduced by remote teaching. Based on...
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Encouraging Risk-taking to Advance Critical Thinking

Risk-taking is a characteristic of the IB learner profile because it sets students apart from their peers as leaders. Risk-taking with deliberation and defined outcome is a characteristic of good...
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How to Build Inclusion, Differentiation, and Autonomy into Your Curriculum

Twenty-first century teaching is challenged by the fact that we are preparing students for a world that does not yet exist. When the techniques used in the classroom or the...
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Tips and Tricks for Teaching Online

Many of us have the basics to teaching online down, but there are still delays, hiccups, and a suite of things that may go wrong each time we start a...
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Building Community Among Students in a Remote Class

In order to promote intellectual curiosity and advance the collective, individual participants must trust one another so they can take risks, offer ideas, disagree respectfully, and collaborate freely. Starting the...
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DataClassroom Sponsored Workshops

In each free 1-hour workshop, Kristen Dotti from Catalyst Learning Curricula will show teachers easy ways to integrate graphing and data analysis skills into their lesson plans with the user-friendly...
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