Inquiry Question: How can coaches support educators in recognizing their implicit bias, addressing equity gaps, and fostering trusting relationships, to deliver culturally responsive teaching in digital learning environments? While educators plan and prepare for learning in the fall, many of whom already know or are anticipating that this learning will happen virtually, there are many…
Let’s Get Personal: Personalizing Professional Development in Remote, Blended, & In-person Learning Environments
Inquiry Question: How can coaches personalize professional development for educators in remote, blended, and in-person learning environments, to support them in the effective use of technology? With many districts and schools announcing that they will be moving to full remote learning or a hybrid model for the fall, I am thinking about how educators will…
Effectively Fostering Learning-Focused Relationships in Remote Learning & Blended Learning Environments
Inquiry Question: How can coaches effectively foster learning-focused relationships with educators and support them in best practices for instruction, especially in remote learning or blended learning environments? As I explored my inquiry question for module 1, I focused my investigation on the first indicator from ISTE Coaching Standard 3. 3a. Establish trusting and respectful coaching relationships…
Culminating Passion Project: A Global Collaboration with Field Experts
Throughout this semester in our EDTC 6103 course, my cohort members and I worked to complete global collaborative projects. For my project, my 4/5 students completed a culminating passion project, where they selected a topic of interest, researched that topic and generated interview questions for experts, conducted interviews with field experts, designed final products, and…
Personalized Learning Enhanced Through App Smashing with Flipgrid
Inquiry Question: How can technology coaches collaborate with educators and use digital tools to develop personalized learning environments for their students? As I navigate through the current teaching environment of remote learning, and as I begin to reflect on the beginning of a new school year in the fall, I am thinking about how educators…
Cultivating Community, Fostering Empathy, & Enriching Learning with Podcasting
‘https://anchor.fm/cory-cummings Inquiry Question: How can educators use technology to enrich project-based learning, foster empathy, and cultivate a collaborative community that inspires others? Community. Empathy. Authentic, meaningful learning. As educators, these are things that we are constantly looking to model, foster, and strengthen in our classrooms. Right now in remote learning, these are also components…
Enhancing Assessments to Drive Instruction with Pear Deck
Inquiry Question: How can educators use technology to enhance assessment design, allowing for increased student engagement, a differentiated learner experience, and effective data-collection, to drive their instruction? Remote learning has provided me with an intentional opportunity to critically reflect on the assessments I use with my students and evaluate how they can best be used…
Building and Engaging in Meaningful Professional Learning Communities with Twitter
Inquiry Question: How can educators build and engage in a professional learning community that shares best practices, inspires others with innovative ideas, and supports members in participating in a variety of levels? Professional learning communities are a vital component to providing educators with professional growth, support, and inspiration. I am always curious to learn from…
Cultivating Collaboration and Authentic Learning Experiences with Screencastify
Inquiry Question: How can educators collaborate with students and leverage their expertise to improve their instructional practices to benefit future learners? ISTE Educator Standard 4’s second indicator, focuses on the ideas of collaboration and co-learning with students. In researching my inquiry question for this module, I began exploring how educators can cultivate collaboration with their…
Investigating the Journey of Food – A Community Engagement Project
As part of an ongoing and culminating project for my EDTC 6102 course this winter, my cohort members and I were asked to create a community engagement project using backward design thinking, from Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe’s Understanding by Design (UbD) Model. For my project, I decided I wanted to focus on our 4/5…
