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[thxnews]

Gale Community For Educators: Empowering High School Teachers

  Connecting Educators for Enhanced Teaching Practices

Gale, a part of the Cengage Group, has introduced an innovative solution to enhance teaching practices and promote collaboration among high school educators. The new initiative, called "Gale Community For Educators," is an online Facebook community specifically tailored for K-12 educators. With a primary mission to foster collaboration and exchange of ideas, this platform aims to connect literature, English, history, and civics high school teachers, empowering them to create dynamic and transformative learning experiences for their students. Shawn Clark, the senior vice president of Gale's domestic learning business, emphasized that this resourceful community would help teachers nationwide access the necessary tools to support student growth and development.  

Networking and Professional Development Opportunities

Gale Community For Educators serves as a vibrant hub for like-minded educators, providing a multitude of professional development opportunities. Additionally, through webinars and tutorials led by industry experts and experienced educators, teachers can enhance their skills, stay up-to-date with the latest educational trends, and explore innovative pedagogical approaches that foster student success. Moreover, this platform ensures that educators have the support they need to continually improve their teaching methods and provide the best possible education to their students.   A Dynamic Space for Engagement Within Gale Community For Educators, high school teachers can actively participate in discussion forums and engage in Q&A sessions with subject matter experts. The platform enables members to express their opinions through regular opinion checks, prompts, and surveys, ensuring their voices are heard and valued. Additionally, teachers will have access to a curated collection of professional development resources, including lesson plans, engaging activities, discussion prompts, assessment tools, and worksheets, all designed to enhance the teaching experience and promote student success.   Fostering Collaborative Learning One of the key features of Gale Community For Educators is its interactive nature, encouraging educators to share challenges, seek advice, and participate in thought-provoking conversations. Teachers can explore new ways to help students absorb subject matter and apply their knowledge meaningfully. The community serves as a space for exchanging ideas on developing effective writing skills, inspiring passion for historical events and civic engagement, and nurturing students' readiness for their academic journey.  

About Gale Community For Educators

Gale Community For Educators, an online community, caters explicitly to K-12 educators, with a focus on secondary education. The platform's primary goal is to foster teaching practices through collaboration, access to valuable resources, and professional development opportunities. By bringing educators together from all corners of the country, this platform aims to collectively elevate the quality of education and help students reach their full potential in their academic journey.   Sources: THX News & Gale. Read the full article

[natasa-pantovic]

Inclusion Erasmus: The Design Thinking Tools by Ruth Mansueto,Assistant Head Malta #teachingpractice 

[norwegianstudentlife]

My life for the past five weeks🤓 Teaching high schoolers some history! While also trying to study for my exams 😴 I’m way too good at procrastinating 🙈

[dianaako]

Teaching teachers: Ako warming up with our cohort

During week 6 of our summer training, we had to do some hours of teaching training encompassing content development and delivery. Our technology group was divided into 3 different teams, each team had to conduct 4 lessons during the week. My team was formed by Losa who has an architecture degree, and Rubi with a visual communication degree and who will also work at Tāmaki college.

Our team focused on the Design process, particularly the FIDS model from Design for Change considering it a good entry point to design for Year 9. 

Design Challenge:

To design a natural space in your school to relax and connect with te taiao (the environment). This also required the connection to Te Titiriti o Waitangi through Partnership, Protection, Participation. 

Learning Outcomes:

To understand what is design and the design process.

To get familiar with the FIDS design process (Feel, Imagine, Do, Share).

To apply the different stages of the design process.

To work on a design challenge.

To develop a design project addressing a brief.

I found we had a good synergy working as a team, we all contributed and planned together since the beginning despite being the first time. Our initial meeting planning the complete structure helped us to create the foundation for the unit and divide the work where each of us took responsibility for one lesson in particular and co-created the last session. I was in charge of the introduction and the first step of the model, here is the presentation.

We divided our sessions approaching each step for each lesson and developed the complete unit plan for our Course Design assessment. However, we decided to reduce the weeks from 10 weeks to 6 weeks in the final proposal, to be more aligned with a typical term structure in a school.

After each session, we received feedback from our instructors to be integrated in our next lesson. I found this approach very useful since we could actively reflect and improve our practice during the week. This practice is aligned to the Teaching as Inquiry approach to be developed during our year of training and as qualified teachers.

The day of our last session I had to bring my daughter to the course, so I decided to integrate her to the activity as a “client” where everyone would present their project and justify how they were addressing the brief. It was very entertaining to the see the final proposal of each of our peers as well as their presentations.

We received good feedback in terms of the variety of exercises proposed that integrated outdoor activities. The multi sensorial exercises to connect with nature seemed to be powerful to experience a “relax” feeling, an important part of the design challenge. Another good feedback was about the use of quizzes in Kahoot! to test the learning at the end of the sessions. We also realised that having an external guest to evaluate their final projects was a successful strategy since they have to make sure they would cover the important aspects of their proposals and connect to the initial brief. 

Connection to Standards

Standard 1: Te Tiriti o Waitangi partnership  Standard 2: Professional learning  Standard 4: Learning-focused culture  Standard 5: Design for learning  Standard 6: Teaching

[mamawolfeto2]

Teachers- have you thought about teaching? Choosing Anti-Racist Teaching in 2020 https://bit.ly/3g1Ckb5

[exchangehe]

Interactive Learning with Lego

Patrick Mulneran (04.02.2020)

Reconstructing Reality:

“That’s what the Lego exercise is about, it’s creating a reconstruction of reality so that people can go through it and think about what they are doing.”

 Using Lego in HE:

[deepreddx]

Work selfie ✌ #School #TeachingPractice #Work #Voluntary #Selfie #Selca #Ootd #Grey #Black #MyColours 💜

[architecture-northumbria]

NAS Teaching Practice: talk #02 Holly Galbraith & Ingrid Petit

Northumbria Alumni, Holly Galbraith (Niall McLaughlin Architects and Birmingham City University MArch studio tutor) and Ingrid Petit (Feilden Fowles and Kingston University BA studio tutor) talk about working in practice, teaching design and how each informs the other.

[asiancollegeofteachers-institute]

Brain research has actually shown that innovative teaching can truly enhance the learning process, along with attention-management techniques to classes, is a win-win for both students and teachers.  

[waverleyart-blog]

Focussing on the details. Student work from Deb Woods’ ceramics class. Pic taken for the recent tutors’ exhibition which explored wwas teachers teaching practice. #ceramics #teachingpractice #artsydney #contemporaryceramics (at Waverley Woollahra Arts School)

[wyayoga]

Teaching Practice: How to run the Professional Yoga class on Traditional based. www.adinath.com #yogaforlife #yogainthailand #yogattc #adinath #adinathyoga #adinathyogaashram #wyafamily #wyafamilyevent #teachingyoga #teachingpractice #wyathailand

[teflindia2017]

An enriching session of #TeachingPractice for aspiring teachers. Let's take a sneak peek to see how our students enjoyed teaching in the #real_time #teaching practice session.

To gain similar experience and learn the modern teaching techniques enroll with the International TEFL/TESOL Courses in - #Delhi, #Mumbai, #Kolkata, #Chennai, #Hyderabad, and #Bangalore. To know more and apply to visit us at www.teflindia.com.

[mamawolfeto2]

New post - I've been thinking about how to write this for months. So, here goes: Choosing Anti-Racist Teaching in 2020 https://bit.ly/3g1Ckb5

[waverleyart-blog]

Lia Klugman with her work at the opening of #Artinthemaking our Tutors’ exhibition at #bondipaviliongallery. Features tutor work as well as a focus on their #teachingpractice. Great way to get a better underatanding of what happens at Waverley Woollahra Art School. Open every day Until 13 May #bondibeach (at Waverley Woollahra Arts School)

[teflindia2017]

The #students of #AsianCollegeofTeachers experience an enriching #teachingpractice. These aspiring #teachers are taking their baby steps of building a promising #teachingcareer for themselves.Here are some glimpses of it. Visit www.teflindia.com if you also wish to gain similar experience and learn the modern teaching techniques enroll with the International TEFL/TESOL Courses in - #Delhi, #Mumbai, #Kolkata, #Chennai, #Hyderabad, and #Bangalore.