PLC (Professional Learning Communities)
Meeting Norms
SMART Goals
S pecific
M easureable
A ttainable
R esults
T ime
Common Formative Assessments
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Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support (PBIS)
What is PBIS? It is: "a framework or approach for assisting school personnel in adopting and organizing evidence-based behavioral interventions into an integrated continuum that enhances academic and social behavior outcomes for all students."
View Gail Cafferata's Powerpoint for an overview of PBIS, or view the following websites for more great information:
http://www.pbis.org/
http://www.pbisillinois.org/ |
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For specific instructions on using the program, use the "help" menu in the upper-right after you login to Data Director.
For help using the program, please email or visit: Becky Safarik at bsafarik@pusdk12.org
Enter any problems with your login or the program on the helpdesk. |
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Animoto (http://animoto.com/)
- create online videos (30-second videos, unlimited is for free, more is for a small price)
Glogster (http://edu.glogster.com/)
- online collaborative tools for class projects, posters, etc.
Imagechef (http://www.imagechef.com/)
- this provides fun ways to present information visually; you can present your lessons to the students using this site, OR you can assign the students creative projects that culminate in a visual presentation of their research, etc.
Opper Project (http://hti.osu.edu/opper/)
- this is a history site that uses editorial cartoons as teaching aids
PBWorks (http://pbworks.com/content/edu-classroom-teachers)
- this is a free online workspace/wiki for teachers to use with their students
Plagiarism Checker (http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/)
- cut-and-paste papers to check for plagiarism (developed by U of Maryland)
Poll Daddy (http://polldaddy.com/)
- free (up to 100 responses per month) online poll where you can
send your kids home with a question, problem, etc., and have them login
and submit their responses to you as homework
Prezi (http://prezi.com/)
- this is an online presentation tool that takes the mundane and
makes it into something the kids are more likely to pay attention to
Rollyo (http://www.rollyo.com/index.html)
- create a group of websites that students are limited to in
accomplishing a given project (this allows you to guide students in
their searches while still allowing them the experience of searching)
Teaching Tolerance-Civil Discourse (http://www.tolerance.org/handbook/civil-discourse-classroom/chapter-2-building-blocks-civil-discourse)
- these lessons provide a way for basic argument literacy to be integrated
into any classroom. Students of all ages, backgrounds and skill levels
are able to learn the basic tools for argumentation
Thesis Builder for Persuasive Essay (http://ozline.com/electraguide/thesis.php)
- this is a cool tool that serves to give kids an idea of what goes into a thesis and how those ideas look in the end
TimeToast (http://www.timetoast.com/)
- create timelines on the web
TrackStar (http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/)
- create an online lesson embedding web pages with your own annotations and tasks for students
Wordle (http://www.wordle.net/)
- this takes words and turns them into cool pictures, for example, you could have a student submit their paper to Wordle, create a picture, and the topics they mention the most will be the bigger words in the picture; they could then evaluate if they were staying on topic and mentioning pertinent items, all the while making a cool picture
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