Lori Gracey, Executive Director of TCEA shared this quote from Andre Sasser, a math teacher in Louisiana.
Quote Question: What kind of questions do you find work well for student learning?
As you prepare for back-to school investigate these learning apps from TCEA’s blog post by Dr. Bruce Ellis at this link
Any teacher with a K-12 classroom can gain free access to Calm, the #1 app for meditation and sleep AND get free access to Calm’s paid subscription service available on Android, iOS, and the web – a $59.99 value!
Teachers will score unlimited access to guided meditations and mindfulness exercises, including Calm Kids, which offers programs tailored for age groups from pre-K through high school. The goal of this initiative is to provide teachers with the tools and resources they need to help kids to develop a lifelong capacity for greater self-awareness, concentration, patience, and resilience.
If you’re a teacher, just head here and fill out a simple 30-second form and you’ll be approved within just a few days (it usually takes about 3 days to approve applications). Once you’re approved, you’ll receive a welcome email with further information on how to get started. And then you’ll start receiving tips, suggestions, and best practices to include mini breaks to your school day!
~Seen 1st at the TCEA blog.
It’s 20 degrees outside on a frosty Texas morning and I am on my way to the CISD Robotics Competition sponsored by TCEA. I am a judge for the competition in the “Inventions” section. I keep hearing the “Here Comes the Judge” jingle in my head.
In the Inventions Contest, teams will create and develop a unique robotic invention that will solve a problem.
Student teams will need to approach their problem, working together like real team of engineers, to solve a
common challenge using the Engineering Design Process. The Engineering Design Process is a particular course
of action and sequence of operations intended to achieve a result or produce an outcome. The Engineering
Design Process consists of the following steps:
Research
Plan
Prototype
Document and Test
Commercialize.
We are judging with a rubric correlated to the key words: Research, Plan, Prototype, Document and Test, and Commercialize.
Assistance to school districts hit by Hurricane Harvey from #tcea
https://www.tcea.org/blog/hurricane-harvey-assistance/
It is an enormous task to produce a convention for over 10,000 attendees, but TCEA did it ~~~again!!
Thank you TCEA for another great convention from everyone on our global speaking team, Xiaofan, Dr. H., Dr. Mbasu, Joy, Danielle, Kristina, and Helen! ~STEM & Flipped Classrooms Go Global & Mobile http://tinyurl.com/TCEAFlipped
#tcea17 #tceapepperdine2017
Today’s Weekend Ed. Quote was heard at the Texas Computer Educators’ Conference – TCEA 2017 – conference in Austin, Texas this week.
“If what we are teaching is not meaningful to our students, it’s a waste of our time and theirs.” ~Kaitlin Allen
#tcea #tcea17 #tceapepperdine2017
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Lots of inquiry-based discussion and informative tweets during our TCEA Convention session yesterday, “STEM & Flipped Classrooms Go Global & Mobile.”
We appreciate the sentiment in this tweet from @MathFella aka Randy Brooks:
Catch up on or revisit our session:
“STEM & Flipped Classrooms Go Global & Mobile” Description:
Math is a language without geographic borders. Follow the progress of an ongoing digital maker project in the US and Africa which uses teacher and student-created videos to express mathematical and scientific structure. This NSF-supported project profoundly affects social justice for all learners and has application to your school, too.
http://tinyurl.com/TCEAFlipped
#tcea17 #tceapepperdine2017
TCEA Convention Evidence-Based Practice/Research Session
Title: STEM & Flipped Classrooms Go Global & Mobile
Date/Time: February 8, 2017, 10:30am – 11:30am
Location: Room 19B
Format: 50-minute Presentation, we will be live tweeting during the presentation — #tceapepperdine2017
http://tinyurl.com/TCEAFlipped
Description:
Math is a language without geographic borders. Follow the progress of an ongoing digital maker project in the US and Africa which uses teacher and student-created videos to express mathematical and scientific structure. This NSF-supported project profoundly affects social justice for all learners and has application to your school, too.