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In this episode of “https://www.teachercast.net/episodes/ask-the-tech-coach/ (Ask the Tech Coach),” Jeff welcomes Instructional Coach, Michelle Manning on the podcast to discuss the importance of supporting teachers through innovative practices in the classroom.
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How can a Coach invite innovative practices into the classroom … when they are spread thin in multiple buildings? Weekly Topic
Thoughts on a new school year
How to be a successful Instructional Coach after a few years under your belt
Setting Instructional Coaching goals for the upcoming school year
Meeting with teachers
More connections with Administrators and building Leadership teams
Strategies for reinventing the coaching position at the beginning of a new school year
Visit faculty meetings
Tech Coaching Menu
Surveys for checking in with teachers
Do “edubribes” work in gaining trust and building relationships with teachers
How to easily suggest that a teacher try something new
Set the stage with simple conversations
Offer to coteach a class or teach the subject yourself to model the topic
Offer to help build or support their lesson planning
Strategies for supporting teachers across multiple buildings through your calendar, video, and Google Forms
Supporting additional coaches in a single school building … working together as a team
Why gamify?
Practice makes perfect? - No - Practice makes permanent
self-checking
immediate feedback
blended learning
flipped classroom
extra practice
test review
practice again
streamline/chunk to avoid visually overwhelming long worksheets
modify / differentiate
They can ‘play / practice’ again and again; once worksheet is done – it's done
FUN!!
How to gamify?
Google Slides “escape rooms”, riddle rooms, Jenga, board games (game of life)
Once you have the template it’s easy to modify for different themes
How to modify games?
change the number of choices
change the number of questions
add ‘hints’ on the TRY AGAIN page
add images
add audio
add video
fast finisher enrichment
extra practice
Flipped / Putting the Students in Control of the lesson
science lesson
Instead of watching video as whole class, video is chunked into smaller pieces for better retention
Students watch at own pace, minimal distractions, can rewind, etc
Students can take notes at their own pace using varied method (typing, writing, voice, drag & drop; have a copy of notes if needed, didn’t complete, etc
Use a tool like Kami where you can push out the answers after so students have accurate notes
Taking obstacles out of the way to get to your end ‘game’ - the content
About our Guest Michelle Manning Michelle was an elementary classroom teacher for over 26 years before...