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Starting the lesson with a Padlet Check-In gives students an opportunity to have their voices heard and interact with me and with one another. This is especially important during distance learning.

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Social Awareness and Responsible Decision-Making

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Social Awareness and Responsible Decision-Making

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Relating content with impacts of behaviors on others, such as this pelican drenched in oil, prompts students students to engage with the material beyond the classroom.  Knowing potential impacts will help them be more self-aware with their own use of energy resources, as well as encourage them to play a more active role in being part of the solution.

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Using my Pear Deck slides, I can see the answers of every student. This allows every student to demonstrate their understanding, without being dominated by a few stronger voices. I can then provide feedback either in writing (directly on the Pear Deck) or verbally, as I share some of their answers with the class.

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Vocabulary can sometimes be challenging, even for advanced learners. I provide all learners a method to spend as much times as they need reviewing the vocabulary in an interactive way to gain understanding of the words. These methods also include text reader capability.

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All lesson slides are integrated with Immersive Reader, which enables students to use text-reader, change fonts and spacing, and translate content into desired language.

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All lessons begin with a quick self-assessment of how the student is feeling.

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Interactive games, such as Quizlet Live, Gimkit, and Kahoot provide a fun way for students to demonstrate their knowledge. Post-game reports show me which students are struggling as well as which terms or concepts need to be re-taught or re-explained.

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Choice boards give students agency by enabling them to choose the method by which they demonstrate knowledge and understanding. This method empowers students to capitalize on their strengths and pursue their interests.

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To ensure students are mastering the specific standards I am teaching, the objectives are clearly defined at the beginning of the lesson and revisited throughout the lesson to ensure students are gaining the understanding and developing to skills to master those standards.

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Projects are assigned early on in the unit so students can use the project as a platform to build their understanding of the content. PBL relates content to real world problems and solutions. In addition to prompting critical thinking, PBL provides a basis for collaboration. For this lesson, students are working in groups to design and build a hydroelectric turbine.

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Providing students an opportunity to reflect on what they liked and didn't like about a day's lesson alerts me to potential changes to my lessons. If multiple students indicate they found something hard, perhaps I didn't provide adequate scaffolding so I can revise the lesson accordingly.

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A criterion-based summative assessment can provide valuable information about the effectiveness of the lesson. My online textbook gathers data that I can use to assess my lesson.

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Many of my students are either ELL or they struggle with reading comprehension. The textbook-provided assessments are very verbose, causing many students to underperform even when they understand the content. For this reason, I have scaffolded my assessment to include shorter, more concise questions to assess their understanding of content. This is an example of one of those types of tests (not related to this particular lesson - we are not yet to the summative stage).

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Nearpod is a must have application for teachers and schools that have access to a set of iPads, iPods, iPhones or Macs for their classes. What's Nearpod? The Nearpod platform enables teachers, schools and districts, to use their iPads to manage cont..

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Nearpod is a must have application for teachers and schools that have access to a set of iPads, iPods, iPhones or Macs for their classes. What's Nearpod? The Nearpod platform enables teachers, schools and districts, to use their iPads to manage cont..