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Instructional Coaching: Using Rubrics to Quantify Qualitative Data for Improved Teaching Outcomes

cvladortiz June 3, 2018 June 3, 2018ISTE Coach 2, rubrics, Self-Reflection, Teaching Learning and Assessment, tech tools

Feedback can be a powerful tool to improve teaching and learning. Through feedback, new perspectives can be gained as teachers begin to can acern what is working and what isn’t in current instructional methods. Feedback also offers suggestions on achieving goals and standards that drive an educator’s work. There are four different types of feedback: … Continue reading Instructional Coaching: Using Rubrics to Quantify Qualitative Data for Improved Teaching Outcomes

Strategies for Teaching Effective Email Communication

cvladortiz May 20, 2018 May 20, 2018Communication, Digital Citizenship, ISTE Educator 3, Modeling, Teaching Learning and Assessment

I have a dilemma. No one comes to my office hours anymore. I made this realization years ago when I would find myself alone in my office, staring at the clock, waiting for my “shift” to be over or filling that time with grading and lesson planning. On average, I’d probably have 1-2 students come … Continue reading Strategies for Teaching Effective Email Communication

Implementing Student-Centered Activities in Content-Intensive Courses

cvladortiz May 4, 2018 May 4, 2018Empowered Student, explicit learning, ISTE Educator 5, student-centered, Teaching Learning and Assessment, tech tools

If you’ve ever taught a content-intensive course, you’ll know it’s like trying to finish a marathon in a sprint. In my experience, you get to the finish line, but you hardly remember the journey there. The content-intensive courses I teach are the foundational nutrition classes. Each contain at least six major learning objectives with about … Continue reading Implementing Student-Centered Activities in Content-Intensive Courses

Professional Development-Improving Digital Literacy through Peer Modeling

cvladortiz April 22, 2018 April 22, 2018Co-Learning, Digital Age Learning Environments, information fluency, ISTE Educator 2, Peer Modeling, Professional Development and Program Evaluation, Teaching Learning and Assessment, tech tools

It shouldn’t be a surprise that experts support the idea of incorporating technology into new and existing learning models to facilitate deeper and different skill sets than those taught by conventional methods today. The biggest push for more technology adoption in education is to move the educational system away from antiquated models developed during the … Continue reading Professional Development-Improving Digital Literacy through Peer Modeling

Co-learning, Co-teaching, and Cogenerative Dialogues to Improve Learning and Teaching Outcomes

cvladortiz April 8, 2018 April 8, 2018Co-Learning, Co-Teaching, Cogenerative dialogues, problem-based, Teaching Learning and Assessment, tech tools

What happens when you allow two people with seemingly different backgrounds to work together? Great collaboration! This is true of a program co-sponsored by the Center for Educational Equity and Big Brother/ Big Sister that paired 9-14 year old girls with adult women to learn about computers. The little and big sisters would meet to … Continue reading Co-learning, Co-teaching, and Cogenerative Dialogues to Improve Learning and Teaching Outcomes

Digital Storytelling and Creative Communication: Does One Help Develop the Other?

cvladortiz March 18, 2018 March 18, 2018content curation, Creative Problem-Solving Model, creativity, Digital Citizenship, Digital Storytelling, Empowered Student, information fluency, ISTE students 6, Teaching Learning and Assessment, tech tools

Alan Alda, from M*A*S*H*, knows how to tell a story. In one of his presentations, he asks a young woman to the stage. Alda then asks the young woman to carry an empty glass across the stage. She stares at the him awkwardly and does it without much fanfare. Alda then walks to her with … Continue reading Digital Storytelling and Creative Communication: Does One Help Develop the Other?

Lessons from the Six Facets of Understanding and Backward Design Process

cvladortiz March 17, 2018 March 17, 2018Backward design, content curation, Digital Citizenship, Formative Feedback, ISTE students 2, Teaching Learning and Assessment, tech tools

For the past ten weeks, my cohort and I have been exploring techniques to get more out of the classes we teach. I have been personally exploring teaching methods that truly achieve student understanding. Interestingly, authors of the book, Understanding by Design, argue that our interpretation of the word “understanding” is narrow and doesn’t encompass … Continue reading Lessons from the Six Facets of Understanding and Backward Design Process

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