Category: Teaching Practices

Introduction to Desmos

Do you teach Math? Any grade level? Then you want to be using Desmos! Desmosify your lesson! Don’t just make it digital. In this webinar I will introduce you to the website Desmos.

Add-on: toTabs Send Data to Different Tabs

You will love this!!! So handy for your Google Forms. For repeating data (like student names) create a tab for each filtered data. In other words a tab per student. Fill out the Google Form to populate the spreadsheet YouTube

Writing DOK 2 Critical Thinking Questions

Google and YouTube have changed what is important. We can not stop students from Googling questions. The alternative is to change the question and increase the critical thinking. YouTube

Webinar: What do you notice/wonder?

Use the teaching technique What do you notice wonder? Try out this Google Forms Add-on to allow ALL students to notice and wonder. A Google Slides is automatically created to have class discussion with student observations.

Webinar: The Goal is Not DOK 4

I am really passionate about increasing the DOK levels (critical thinking) of my students. Live in DOK 2 and DOK 3. Visit DOK 1 and DOK 4. Let’s talk about the difference between hard and COMPLEX. DOK 4 is COMPLEX reasoning. You will be doing pretty good to do DOK 4 once or twice a […]

WORKSHOP: Better Progress Reports

ONLINE WORKSHOP: This is for anyone using Google Apps. This is a variety of beginner to advanced tips. This is also an excellent opportunity to experience Google Classroom as a student.