webinars
the empowered learner
We’ve put together a 90-minute webinar to introduce you to SEL, providing you with an understanding of its importance in education and the basic concepts. We’ll learn from experts in mindfulness and an educator who has embraced SEL in their classroom for their students, and finally we’ll share a mindfulness lesson you can lead in your classroom with Minecraft: Education Edition.
Effortlessly add interactive questions and formative assessments to existing powerpoint presentations. Turn your presentations into classroom conversations. Enhance instructional content with interactive learning prompts to gauge understanding, improve engagement all while checking for understanding with assessment tools for, as, and of learning. See the lesson plan activity below!
During this professional learning webinar, you will explore ways to frame learning around engaging challenges that can contribute to deep learning; consider how to effectively use a variety of digital tools to enhance student learning and ways to ensure students experience opportunities to develop critical, collaborative, and creative thinking through remote learning experiences.
accessibility
Plan your assessment strategy in a distance learning class. Online instruction inevitably means delivering assessments and exams, necessitating a level of accountability and response that’s usually only found within the physical classroom. Using Microsoft tools, you can scale your distance assessment strategy to specific content types, learning objectives, and technologies available in your school. Explore the tips below for conducting high-stakes proctored exams and assessment alternatives online.
This webinar will provide educators with strategies to increase accessibility and inclusion within their Brightspace platform to foster strong connections between students and teachers. Join us as we explore: what makes Brightspace platform accessible; how to enhance accessibility with digital tools and take away fresh ideas to meet the needs of your students tomorrow!
Offer students of all abilities equity, access, independence, and the opportunity to learn without stigma with easy to use built in accessibility features like dictate, immersive reader, real-time translation, word prediction, closed captioning and more. Inclusive features and tools built into the fabric of Office 365 Education.
digital tools
Remote learning really IS ten times easier with older students who can be more independent and self-directed with their learning. But that doesn’t mean that remote learning is impossible for primary students. It just needs to be structured differently — and it needs to start from the premise that parents are our partners in the process of making sure that learning is happening for younger students during this pandemic shutdown. See strategies that work in Remote Learning and see how Teams can be used to structure your primary class.
Learn how to empower student voice with a video-based community in a safe environment. You will explore how to create meaningful, empowered student engagement in a distance learning setting with student choice and develop amazing lesson prompts using Flipgrid.
Teams allows you to chat, post messages, video chat and facilitate assignments while empowering teaching and learning OneNote Class Notebook. In this session, we will show you how Teams not only streamlines your teaching workflow in Office 365, but also makes it possible for you to create a space for more robust collaboration between your students.