Featuring: Gradebook
The Memorial Day feature release for Planbook Plus is all about adding functionality. Planbook Plus was designed by teachers for teachers to make their jobs easier. One of the upcoming features that assists in this task is the new Gradebook. Gradebook provides an alternative way to keep track of grades while saving teachers time, improving communication between home and school, and integrating seamlessly with Planbook Plus- the ultimate lesson planning software. [...]
Lesson Planning Tip: Plan How to End the Lesson
By the time a lesson’s end rolls around, you may be tempted to wrap up quickly and move on to the next activity or lunch. But even though you’ve already gotten through the heart of the material, it’s still crucial you wrap up the lesson with intention. That way you give students more of a [...]
Pre-release Snapshot- Planbook Plus
Planbook Plus is the tool to use to optimize your lesson planning, but with its new upcoming features, it can be the solution to even more of your educational needs. In the next few weeks we will be releasing feature articles to describe in depth what’s coming this Memorial Day. This snapshot is a brief overview of the features to come. [...]
Build a Bridge Through Collaboration
Consider this challenge: you have two hours to build a bridge. You can use all of your background knowledge and have a variety of materials to work with. This bridge must hold substantial weight. You have no construction or engineering experience, but you have a strong background in mathematics. Perhaps you are one of those ingenious types who finds this task stimulating, or perhaps, considering the knowledge and time constraints, it’s a bit intimidating. Now, envision doing this exact same task with three other individuals with experience in engineering, construction, and design. Did the task just get a little less daunting? In the objective outlined above, as in education, the quality, scope, and overall success increases substantially with collaboration. [...]
Lesson Planning + Technology = Success
When developing lesson plans, there is a large array of information that needs to be considered; standard criteria, student learning modalities, differentiated delivery, areas of strength and weakness, and all of this before even arriving at the content of the lesson. Utilizing technology to aid in lesson planning is a first step to a more comprehensive solution to teacher effectiveness and student success. As demands increase, resources are developed to help curb those demands. The ability to create customized assessments from a repository of performance-aligned questions, pinpoint areas in need of improvement with standards-based assessments, and supplement education with individualized eLearning, can truly help teachers focus on optimizing student learning. [...]
Lesson Planning Tip: Plan Alternative Activities
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy! ~Robert Burns You don’t have to be an English teacher to relate to Robert Burns’ “tim’rous beastie” in his poem To a Mouse. Though you’re not likely to have a farmer come and [...]