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Features Pricing Blog Support Try for Free Log In Plan To Succeed with Planbook Plus Home Features Pricing Blog Support Try for Free Log In Teacher Hub: Performance Based Assessments February 7, 2018 Effective Lesson Planning , TeacherHUB Standard A recent article in Ed Week discusses how a teacher in 1989 worked to create an engaging lesson for his students. He brought someone in with a summons for William Golding ( Lord of the Flies) to court. The students then took on the roles of lawyers, dressing in suits and ties, prepping for court, etc. The culminating project was the trial. This was the final assessment for the book. Not an essay, not a multiple choice exam – an engaging project. [...] Current Events Done Right December 20, 2017 Classroom Activity , Effective Lesson Planning , Planning Strategies , Uncategorized Standard Think back to your school experience. Your history teacher assigns current events. Go home, cut out a story from the newspaper, paste it onto some construction paper, and provide a summary. Easy. You go home, wait until the last minute, pull out the first story you see, and get the scissors and glue. The next [...] Digital Citizenship 101 October 25, 2017 Effective Lesson Planning Standard Have you heard? School districts around the country are going 1:1! Are you ready? Of course you are! The times of projecting powerpoint slides on the front board are over. Interactive boards are no longer the next new thing. Put your phones away” is a saying considered unacceptable in some parts. You’ve made it through all of these movements. As times change, we must adjust. Contrary to popular beliefs, while the tools we use have changed, the way we deliver our instruction has not. [...] Teacher Hub: Effective Planning October 18, 2017 Planning Strategies Standard Assemblies, field trips, extracurriculars, pep rallies – there is always something getting in the way of a full week of instruction. Education increasingly becomes more demanding on all stakeholders. Back to school nights have come and gone, and we are going to be approaching parent-teacher conferences before you know it! Teachers are overwhelmed with the latest and greatest initiatives, parent meetings, and administrative walk throughs and observations. How do educators keep it together every week?! Well, the best educators do so through effectively planning each and every week. [...] The Honeymoon is Over: 5 Classroom Management Tips October 11, 2017 Effective Lesson Planning Standard Those sweet September morns have come and gone. Students are over the excitement of seeing their friends and discussing their summer. Now, the demands are increasing on students. Additionally, homework is back in town and those pesky standardized test scores from last spring are rolling in. Students appear to be more and more stressed and anxiety-driven each and every year. As educators, we are challenged to engage students in our curriculum. [...] Tech Boost: Book Snaps! September 21, 2017 Tech Boost Standard Welcome back to school! Our first week was last week, and for me – it was an exhausting yet invigorating jolt back! Students are back and excited to see their friends, teachers, and yes – even to learn! Now, the trick is – to keep that excitement going! In various conversations with other professionals, I have noticed the underlying principal of risk-taking. Not just for students, but for teachers as well. Bear with me for a moment and consider taking a risk with technology. [...] Back to School: 5 Questions to Ask Yourself August 1, 2017 Planning Strategies Standard We ask our students the basic back to school questions” every year. What did you do this summer? Did you read any books? What are you looking forward to this year? We ask these questions to get to know our students and to help our students practice reflection. But what about you? Are you returning rejuvenated? Have you reflected and set goals? We are so busy focusing on our students, that we often forget to provide in-filling” for ourselves. Therefore, before you walk into school on that crisp August or September morning, ask yourself these questions. [...] This Year’s Summer Assignment: Create a Blog! July 26, 2017 TeacherHUB , Tech Boost Standard Yet another technology tool that I have to use?!” No. This time, the assignment is strictly for you. Well, and the rest of the internet. Tech ed trends often trail the rest of the world. While Web2.0 died in the business and media sectors, it just started in education. Us teachers are still using facebook, while our students are on the gram.” And now, here we are with the blog. The main difference? [...] Different People, Different Planning Needs July 25, 2017 Getting Started Standard Planbook Plus has a few features that when used together, create an extremely flexible and powerful lesson planning tool. To get the most out of that power and flexibility, it helps to begin that journey heading in the right direction. This article will explain the best initial setup for a few teaching scenarios to get the most out of your evaluation of Planbook Plus. There are two primary factors that affect your initial setup of Planbook Plus. How many classes or groups of students you plan for? How many different subjects you plan for? Here are some typical combinations. Example 1 – An elementary education teacher teaches one group of students multiple subjects. Example 2 – A secondary education teacher teaches one subject to three separate classes or periods. Example 3 – A kindergarten teacher may teach multiple classes of students and teach multiple subjects.[...] Planning with Multiple Planbooks July 25, 2017 Getting Started Standard Need to plan for your year? Getting ready to start a one-quarter or one semester class? Want to give online planbook software a try and don’t want to redo everything? These are all great reasons to use Planbook Plus. When you plan with Planbook Plus, you’re not just planning for today, you’re planning for next year as well…because when you do it once, you’re all set for next year. A few tweaks here and a few touches there and you’re done. One great feature is the ability to work with multiple planbooks at a time. Yes, you could create just one big planbook…one that contains all of your classes and sections. The problem with that is that if any of your classes change next year, you’ll have to go through your planbook and remove everything that no longer applies. 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