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AKA Resource Page 
See below how to make the student the center of learning and doing.

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Links

Educational Videos

Edutopia: Oracy in the Classroom: Strategies for Effective Talk September 15, 2016
School 21 develops confident students who can articulate their thoughts and learning with strategies like discussion guidelines and roles and structured talk tasks.

How to Teach Word Problems: Kindergarten
By Danielle the Tutor, January 28, 2018
Demonstrates Addition: Put Together, Add To and Subtraction: Take From, Take Apart

Presentation of Brenda Dervin's "From the Mind's Eye of the User: The Sense-Making Qualitative-Quantitative Methodology” YouTube presentation by Becky Ramsey Leporati Published on Oct. 21, 2013

SPARCC EdTech Webinar Series: Google Slides for Interactive Stories, Quizzes, and Games by Eric Curts
Webinar explaining how to make Google Slides for interactive play.

Youcubed: What is Number Sense?
By Jo Boaler
Discussion of the distributive property of multiplication.

Education Articles

A Problem with Problem Solving: Teaching Thinking without Teaching Knowledge, Carson, Jam in Mathematics Educator, v17 n2 p7-14 2007
Discusses the importance of prior-knowledge of math concepts to attack math problems.

Co-Constructing Written Explanations
By Leslie C. Banes, Gabriela López, Michelle Skubal and Lara Perfecto Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School Vol. 23, No. 1 (September 2017), pp. 30-38 Published by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
5th grade classroom use posters and small group critically thinking to solve math word problems.

Effectiveness of Scaffolding Interrogatives Method: Teaching Reading Comprehension Young Children with Hyperlexia in Singapore, Noel Kok Hwee Chia & Norman Kiak Nam Kee, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University,2003
The importance of teaching interrogatives.

The Impact of Broadcast and Streaming Video in Education, What the Research Says and How Educators and Decision Makers Can Begin to Prepare for the Future, Zanetis, A. D. (2012, March).  Retrieved from Cisco Systems Inc. to Wainhouse Research, July 10, 2018 : https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/solutions/industries/docs/education/ciscovideowp.pdf
 

Education Websites

Common Sense Media - Learn about digital citizenship

Edutopia - Watch videos and read about case studies

Youcubed
Instructional resources (ideas, tasks, etc.) by Jo Boaler

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Recommended Reading
Academic Papers
Carson, J. (2007). A Problem With Problem Solving: Teaching Thinking Without Teachng Knowledge. Mathematics Educator, Vol. 17, No. 2 7-14.

Ebrahim, A. (2012, April). The Effect of Cooperative Learning Strategies on Elementary Students' Science Achievement and Social Skills in Kuwait. International Journal of Science & Mathematics Education, 293-314.

Hixson, N. K., Ravitz, J., & Whisman, A. (2012). Extended Professional Development in Project-Based Learning: Impacts on 21st Century Teaching and Student Achievement. Retrieved October 2017, from https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED565466.pdf

Liu, J., & Xin, Y. (2017, August 2). The Effect of Eliciting Repair of Mathematics Explanations of Students With Learning Disabilities. Learning Disability Quarterly, 40(3), 133-145.
Morin, L. L., Watson, S., Hester, P., & Raver, S. (2017, October). The Use of Bar Model Drawing to Teach Word Problem Solving To Students with Mathematics Difficulties. Learning Disability Quarterly, 90-104.

Najmonnisa, & Saad, I. (August 2017). The Role of Cooperative Learning Method in Teaching of Science Subject at Elementary School Level: An Experimental Study. Bulletin of Education and Research, Vol. 39, No. 2 pp. 1-17.

Peterson, K. (2016). Making Meaning with Friends: Exploring the Function, Direction and Tone of Small Group Discussions of Literature in Elementary School Classrooms. Reading Horizons, 55(3), 29-61.

Book Recommendations

Pink, D. (2005). A Whole New Mind. New York: Berkley Publishing.
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Darling-Hammond, L. (2010). The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future. New York: Teachers College Press.
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Baggio, D. B. (2011). The Visual Connection. New York: Proteus Press.

Tools

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LESSONS
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HOW-TOs
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ASSESSMENT

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Pinterest:
Awesome ideas to adapt for any classroom, many great posters for classroom use are here.

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 Screencastify:
 Third grade students can create a video     within o class lesson.  Video any production     students make on their electronic screen, and   add narration.  This is great for flipped   teaching.

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Google Forms and Slides:        Gsuites are very useful for building      interactive lessons, and surveying your students.

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 Microsoft Office PowerPoint: 
​ Slide show that can be turn into a video. Might   be used  to create animation, embed music,   and narration for my lessons.

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