Kelly+Newman

Kelly Newman
My content area is Early Childhood Education. I do not have a specialty area at this time.

1.Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
- While teaching multiplication to a class, a teacher can use the Smartboard. Each student is given their own remote/clicker where they can enter their answer to the question on the Smartboard. When the teacher closes the question she can see how many students got the correct answer and how many were incorrect. This is great to do because students are used to doing math problems with paper and a pencil, and after awhile that gets boring. On a nice day outside you can have your students do different activities involving multiplication problems. Having a change of scenery is also important for teaching a younger age group.

2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
-Most schools have programs like Blackboard, so your student's and their parents can check what they are doing each day and what their grades are. This tends to be more helpful for a teacher. If a grade is put in incorrectly then the student or parent can let the teacher know immediately. This is also helpful when sending out newsletters about what is going on in class. (Let's face it, when paper newsletters are given to students to hand to their parents, not all of them remember they have it.) - Sending links to give homework assignments online is also helpful. A teacher will send a safe website where the students can have immediate feedback on their grade. These are also more appealing for children instead of doing bookwork when they get home from school.

3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
- Before student's do activities on the computer or Smartboard on their own, the teacher needs to explain how to use it. Every time there is a new activity on the computer, the teacher should use the Smartboard to show them exactly what to do when they are on the website. Step-by-Step instructions are very important when working with a younger age group. Also, writing the instructions on a whiteboard (or blackboard), so that they can double check what to do, is a very good idea. -It is very helpful to show students how to do things instead of giving vocal directions.

4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
- Teaching students safe ways to use the computer is key. Letting your students know about safe websites and which site to stray away from is important. At school there are programs that block unwanted websites, but when a child gets home it is a whole different experience. Teachers need to stress the importance of safe web surfing as much as they possibly can. - Parents of the students should also keep their computer safe and have websites blocked at their home. -Teachers can also have students make online journals instead of writing their daily journals. By doing this, teachers can read them more legibly and can retrieve them whenever they want.

Organizational Templates:
1. Weekly Newsletters for Parents 2. Academic Grade Book 3. Homework Assignments 4. Weekly Progress Report 5. Multi-Purpose Class List

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