In Episode 4 of Season 2, Alicia and Haley talk to Christie, a special educator with nearly two decades of experience at the secondary level, to gain valuable insights about how to best support all students with forward thinking and an emphasis on positive outcomes. Along with her excellent, expert advice about the importance of building and maintaining relationships and what to do if a student has a behavioral break-down, Christie shares with the IT Teachers some excellent tech tools she uses with great success.

👷‍♀️ Build Relationships

• Listen more than you talk

 🚨 Managing Meltdowns

• Follow any and all Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs)

💻 Technology for Special Education

• 🚀 Transition planning

• Free Sites to support students taking steps after high school (links below)

• Google Forms!

• Check-in / Check-Out Form

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Resources Mentioned in Episode:

• Dr. Ross Greene Text:  Lost at School (Collaborative Problem Solving)

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         ✅ Convenience  🏪

• Setting Scenes (allow only sites that you use daily and those you want to allow or disallow students to use during your class time with them each day)

         ✅ Classroom Communication ☎️

• Chat feature a great perk: 1:1 facilitation or personal student needs kept private

         ✅ Data  💻

• Email Report- GoGuardian will email you and any recipient(s) below with an attached PDF of the report, along with an optional message from you.

          ✅  Tips and Tricks  💁‍♀️

• Districts can offer parents/ guardians the options to monitor and set parameters regarding their student's device use

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With its boundless applications in any classroom, Google Sites is one of the most versatile and valuable offerings within the google apps for education suite; yet, it is one of the least used by educators. 

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In episode 10, Alicia and Haley talk about some of the ways they use Google sites in their classrooms and offer advice to teachers who are considering its use.

Google Sites!!

• Student portfolios are the epitome of blended learning

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Alicia and Haley are excited to welcome a guest speaker next week on the IT Teachers' Podcast.  Christie will join us and explore what technology integration offers for special education students.

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Alicia and Haley are back in the swing of things for Season TWO!

After a year and a half of distance, remote, and blended learning, schools are back in person.

Alicia and Haley review some of the tools that made the cut- working perfectly for whole-class in person teaching and learning.  

In this episode Alicia and Haley will review:

• Google Classroom

• communication strategies

• digital citizenship

• More to come in Season 2 Episode 2

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Happy Digital Citizenship Week from The IT Teachers!  

In this podcast Alicia and Haley talk about some ways you can incorporate Digital Citizenship into your classroom and give you a few tools and sites to check out.  

Digital Citizenship is Standard 2 of the ISTE standards.  It's important! Contact the IT Teachers if you have any questions about how to make Digital Citizenship part of your classroom. 

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In Episode 7 of The IT Teacher's Podcast- Tech Toolbox: The PlyWood, Alicia and Haley explore a useful tool called CLASSROOMSCREEN.COM

Classroomscreen.com is simple and easy-to-use - just like plywood.  Although we may not necessarily consider "plywood" to be a tool, plywood is versatile and can be used for all kinds of structural, interior, and exterior applications.  Just like plywood, classroomscreen.com can be used throughout your lesson from start to finish. You can prepare up to three screens to "pre-set" the screen OR you can easily pull up the turn-key widgets.

It's Free. (With an option to upgrade to PRO) It's great for all grades and subjects.

*ALL SUBJECT AREAS

Specifics:

Try it out for yourself or watch our video for specific support with how to use this tool and ideas for how you can use the different widgets that are available with this tool. We are excited about this tool and we are using it!

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In Episode 6 of the IT Teachers' Podcast:  CommonCurriculum.com, Alicia and Haley discuss Commoncurriculum.com as a great tool for teachers to lesson plan.  Alicia and Haley review how to get started and discuss some of the key components of Commoncurriculum.com and why it's such a great tool to "Tighten your Teaching!"

• Lesson Planning

• Bumping Classes

• with Instructional Leaders/ Administrators/Department Heads

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In Episode 5 The IT Teachers' Podcast: Book Review: Don't Ditch That Tech, Alicia and Haley review Don't Ditch That Tech, Differentiated Instruction in a Digital World- an instructional technology go-to written by Matt Miller, Angelia Ridgway, PHD, and Nate Ridgway. Alicia and Haley talk about what makes this text so awesome and what they like about the way the book helps educators to think outside the box and urges them to differentiate... not ditch... their tech!

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In Episode 4 The IT Teachers' Podcast: The Glue- debrief of Google For Education's Anywhere School, Alicia and Haley outline their major "take-aways" from Google for Education's Anywhere School Virtual Conference held on 8.11.2020.  

The IT Teachers discuss:

• Problem Driven Learning

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In Episode 3,Tech Toolbox: The Hammer Fall(s) 2020, Alicia and Haley get down to business and talk about a gem of a tool, Voicethread.com.

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Among some other enlightening ideas, Alicia and Haley discuss how Voice Thread can be used in the classroom from both teaching and learning vantage points.

Alicia and Haley discuss:

•  Voice, video, and images in Voice Thread

USE what the kids like or are used to- to create lessons and assignments that will make it easier for them to be engaged!

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