Providing our teachers support involves different approaches for different situations. As teachers face novel challenges from in-person learning, new technologies, and more, it is essential to give them the tangible help they need to thrive. Self-care, social-emotional strategies, collaboration, and material resources can all help to alleviate teacher burnout.
The term artificial intelligence typically refers to the computer systems that are capable of efficiently completing tasks that should normally require the use of human intelligence. As educational leaders continue exploring some of the various avenues—popular or not—of bringing it into classrooms, the hope is that it extends educator efficiency and helps student achievement.
The year 2023 is over, but those educational movements that shaped it will continue to impact students in 2024—and beyond. Advances across many key areas, like artificial intelligence, stood out among big EdTech trends for 2023, while personalized learning, cybersecurity, and teacher burnout were also big, and drones, 3D printers, and VR came more into focus.
Since Microsoft is, of course, one of the worldwide leaders in cutting-edge technology, it should come as no surprise that they also have technologies designed for younger children to use in the classroom. Near the top of that list is this Immersive Reader tool, which helps make written, digital content more accessible for all kids and simultaneously boosts their grasp of it.
Every student receives grades and uses them to determine if they did well enough on an assignment, for the quarter, or to move on to the next grade. Of course, this can also create some pressure on students and sometimes lead to shortcomings in their performance. Plus, a letter grade isn’t always indicative of whether or not a student has truly mastered something.
Self-paced learning is a form of differentiated instruction that teachers can integrate into learning experiences. In self-paced learning, teachers can let their students decide how many lessons they need and how much practice constitutes them mastering something. There are also various instructional techniques you could use and many potentially positive outcomes for kids.
Mightier is ideal for students who are between six and 12 years old since it helps them learn to identify why certain behaviors are harmful, how to best avoid them, and how to manage their feelings. Children can use Mightier in or out of the classroom and they typically start to show improvements with emotional behavior and managing reactions within the first three months.
There’s a good chance you might have already heard of Wakelet, the super popular online organization tool that’s used by a bunch of K-12 teachers. If not, Wakelet is a free service that helps teachers save, organize, and share online content with children and parents. Beyond that, however, its built-in features help make content curation and instruction even easier.
For this Rising Resources post, we explored the classroom communication app known as ClassDojo. It is quite popular and one of the main reasons it continues to be such a valuable classroom resource is that it really enables educators to move away a from one-size-fits-all model. They can even use it to share content with students, improve classroom culture, and more.
A multi-tiered system of support is an instructional framework that involves three separate tiers. These students will receive instruction and support on a much more general scale in the first tier and then this attention increases in personalization as needed. Simultaneously, instructors use the data and assessments they create to inform what each child needs at each phase.
