Educational Resources & Tech Tools 09/29/2015

• Photography 101.7 - ISO - Digital Photography School

  tags: photography digital photography electives

• Scholastico | We make the job of running a school easier, so that schools can focus on learning.

  Web-based software for school functions like teacher feedback surveys.

  tags: survey feedback sign-ups

• (Re)Defining Student Engagement | Reading By Example

  This blogger observes teachers and asks evaluators to try to put aside their biases as they think about teaching and student engagement.

  tags: leadership learning engagement collaboration evaluation

  • Engagement (student involvement in instruction) can be described in a variety of ways. I think too often engagement is exclusively predefined by educators as “hands on”, “students doing more talking than the teacher”, or “active”. These descriptors may all be key indicators of engagement. But the definition should not stop there.
  • We in education talk so much about engagement in concert with terms like “collaboration”, “technology”, and “passion”. Is this where the best learning takes place? Sometimes, maybe even often, but certainly not always.
  • I call on all school leaders, myself included, to put aside our biases and misconceptions regarding student engagement, as we engage in our own learning experiences during our frequent visits to classrooms.
  •  Let our student actions and dispositions guide our professional assessments.

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.