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Learning Technology & Tech Observations by Dr. Helen Teague

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November Resources from PBS Learning Media

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November is brimming with teachable moments! Use PBS LearningMedia as a springboard for classroom discussions around historically significant moments like Election Day, (Nov. 6), Veterans Day, (Nov. 11), and the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, (Nov. 19) – as well as themes that tie to Native American Heritage Week and Bullying Awareness Week. To search for additional resources designed to support your social studies, language arts, science, and math curriculum, register on PBS LearningMedia – it’s free!

Examining the Presidential Campaign Map Grades 9-12 | November 6 is Election Day! Use this opportunity to explore the role of battleground states with your students and help them to better-understand the significance of these states in the presidential election.

Historical Perspectives: Coming Home From War Grades 6-13+ | Lesson Plan + Video Veteran’s Day is November 11. Invite your students to compare and contrast soldiers’ homecomings from World War II and the wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

A City Unites to End Bullying Grades 6-13+ | Video Observe “Bullying Awareness Week,” November 12-17, with your class by examining how students in a California town came together to address bullying in their schools.

Living With the Land Grades 5-12 | Video + Support Materials For Native American Heritage Month, invite your students to follow the trail of North America’s indigenous peoples and learn how Native American tribes embraced the land.

The Gettysburg Address Grades 4-12 | Video + Support Materials Provide your class with context around Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, first delivered on November 19, 1963. Listen to former President Bill Clinton and Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses this historic speech.

Harry Talks Turkey Grades 3-5 | Video Thanksgiving Day presents multiple occasions to talk about math. Watch this video, and then have students estimate their own Thanksgiving menu quantities.

Nov
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A Teacher’s First Day in the Classroom after Hurricane Sandy

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This post, by Launa Schweizer a teacher in Brooklyn, New York is lump-in-your-throat essential reading.

Schweizer writes: I realized: those children didn’t need my lessons. Not right away. Instead, they needed school as a refuge. Refuge from dark stairways and flashlights. Refuge from schlepping wet cardboard boxes out of basements. Refuge from a week of cold dinners and no showers. Our school was dry, warm, well-lighted and normal, and they needed simply to be there.

Nov
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Study Will Examine Online Academic Reading

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from the Education Northwest eNewsletter, November 1, 2012:

In November, Education Northwest will launch a 5-year study with the Center for Advanced Technology in Education (CATE) to test professional development materials used by teachers in their literacy work with students with learning disabilities. The federal Office of Special Education Programs is funding the $2.5 million Stepping Up to SOAR: Strategies for Online Academic Reading project.
During the project, staff will work with at least 20 middle schools to develop, test, evaluate, refine, and disseminate professional development models and teacher materials designed to support the adoption and implementation of the SOAR Toolkit. According to CATE Director Mark Horney, “The SOAR Toolkit is designed to teach middle school students with learning disabilities to efficiently and effectively search for, find, evaluate, read, and utilize appropriate and relevant information when reading and studying online.”
The publicly available toolkit encompasses nine evidence-based, student-centered strategies that Horney says “integrate explicitly with appropriate Common Core State Standards and are designed to promote student competency for acquiring and synthesizing useful web-based information.”

Links: Education Northwest

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