32BJ Training Fund Welcome Back 2014 by Tom Thering https://padlet.com/tthering/2014welcomeback What are your suggestions for "best practices" for the Indicators of Instructor Excellence? en-us 2014-08-29 14:08:41 UTC 2025-11-02 22:11:39 UTC hello@padlet.com http://d20uo2axdbh83k.cloudfront.net/20140829/78b5b2ca9b78a357c2f2370abe6fd6df.jpg Table 18 https://padlet.com/tthering/2014welcomeback/wish/33195067
  • Use Twitter account and social media
  • Review with individual students using online games to further advance education of technology
  • Creating and Using diagrams 
  • SMART Board magnification 
  • Use of mic through the smart board to amplify
  • Expanding the use of web browsing to participate in lesson such as blue print ready 
  • Use internet to research topics discussed during class 
  • Make sure everything works
  • Faster networks so students are not discouraged from participating 

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  • YouTube videos
  • Utilize search engines
  • Use packet site to monitor student's work
  • Make sure students turn off cellphones 
  • Circulate and move around the classroom.
  • Use student's names
  • Have students demonstrate activity upfront at the SMART Board.

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  • Put what you learned in class into action during their out of school hours
  • Don't be afraid of "wait or lag" time when you ask a question. It may take a while for students to process question and formulate response

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  • Exit pass, prior to the lesson ending the instructor hands out index cards to the students and asks them  to write something about the days lesson. The instructor the collects the cards and evaluates how the students absorbed the information. The instructor can then make changes if needed.
  • The hook. Day one the instructor sells his class points to try and capture their attention.

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  • Use storytelling
  • Advanced reading
  • Group work
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  • Assessment:
    • Cooperative assessment per groups based in scaffolding.
    • Entry and exit slips quick quizzes
    • Life assessment: asking questions to students from prior lessons.

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  • Instructional strategies 
  • On going homework such as long term projects, read books, etc.
  • Show videos at the start of class
  • Lookup icebreaker ideas for multilevel class. Lookup things online and discuss together.
  • Buddy system for attendance. Students helping each other.
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  • Self assessment 
  • Exit question
  • Writing assessment
  • Use lesson in role play
  • Hands on
  • Diagrams with pictures
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  • Changing setting if possible
  • Writing journals to practice vocabulary
  • Hands on excercises
  • Icebreakers/introduce themselves
  • Using thesaurus instead of dictionary to expand vocabulary
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  • Using iPad apps to add exercises such ESL and Citizenship related games which may include flashcards or questionnaires. 

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  • Portfolio assessment collect all of their work and assess how they performed over the length of the course. Provide the student with an overall narrative assessment
  • Mock interviews or role play 
  • Customized testing based on level
  • Homework and memorization
  • Bring on photographs from the real world and explain why they are looking at
  • Peer assessment students comment on each others work
  • Demonstration
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  • Give students practical, hands_on assignments to assess understanding and abilities.
  • Use SMARTBoard assessment tools.
  • Have students work in groups and see if they can figure out problem-solving methods.
  • After giving tests and quizzes, review the material to find out why they did or did not understand.
  • Let them make mistakes, foster a comfortable environment where students are not afraid to speak up...use positive ways of correcting them.
  • Have students present small demo-lessons for the class

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  • Arrange the classroom & students to facilitate the class
  • Observe students & pay attention to them
  • Do group work to engage  more students
  • Buzzgroups - assign problem!s to groups and have one person present
  • Use computer work to reinforce lesson
  • Get students out of seats
  • Give reading assignments prior to class to empower students and save time
  • Have students help with instructions
  • Have activities that get students to talk to each other
  • Have advanced students help challenged students
  • Have students play games & compete
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  • Encourage independent study.  
  • Use auditory and visual "repeatable" information.
  • Use the Hacky Sack.
  • Use rewards as a learning system.
  • Use of the "buddy system."
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  • Give students activity to work on as they come in such as homework and circulate as they work on it.

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  • Share own experiences some that the students can relate to you as an individual- connection is key!
  • Use the VARK assessment ( quiz available online) to discover learning styles.

  • Create partnerships between high and low level students to assist with learning

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  • Rewards/point system
  • Enrichment activities
  • Giving additional resources
  • Strict timing
  • Ground rules\common practices
  • Name plaques to learn names
  • Icebreakers/team builders 
  • Encouraging teamwork
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  • Create and exit slip that will help with focus.
  • Sharing own experiences.
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