Recognizes the best educational application or service designed to support PK-12 or postsecondary education institutions in the development of faculty and administrative staff. Includes professional development programs, learning management systems, and content development, with video-based delivery and packaging tools.
edWeb.net Professional Learning Programs - edWeb.net
edWeb.net is a social network and professional learning community that makes it easy for educators to connect and collaborate with peers, share information and best practices, and spread innovative ideas to improve teaching and learning.
edWeb has created a series of free Professional Learning Programs on more than 15 topic strands. The programs are hosted in a professional learning community that makes it easy for any number of educators to participate.
Each program provides free monthly webinars, CE certificates, and online discussions that make it easy for educators to get expert advice from presenters and peers, and work together for their own personal learning.
All webinars are broadcast live and archived in the program community, so it's easy for educators to join at any time, participate in live sessions, or set their own pace, when it's convenient, by watching the recordings.
These programs are free and very easy for educators to join. They are supported by non-profit organizations and education companies who are supporting online communities and free professional development for educators.
Topics include: Game-Based Learning, Mobile Explorations, Emerging Technology, Leadership 2.0, New Teacher Help, The Brain and Learning, Teaching Students with Autism, and more.
The Observation Engine is an online tool that uses high quality video, captured in classrooms all over the country, to provide a practice and testing environment to ensure consistency in ratings based on classroom observations. School systems use the Observation Engine to support training of observers through practice tests, to implement certification in proctored settings, and to conduct periodic calibration checks. It works with any observation protocol, whether homegrown, licensed from a protocol developer, or adapted from existing protocols.
The vast majority of students in the US will need new English/Language Arts and mathematics curricula linked specifically to the Common Core State Standards a set of learning expectations designed to ensure students are ready for careers and college. Teachers will write most of these curricula and will surely adapt those created by others.
We have found that writing curricula using the Common Core Standards is one of the best professional learning activities teachers can undertake toward thoroughly understanding the Common Core. By analyzing the standards, grouping them strategically into units, pairing them with the right assessments and engaging learning activities the standards move from paper to practice. When teachers have access to coaches and resources to help them out, their learning increases as does the quality of their curricula. Reflecting on the lessons they have planned and taught rounds out the learning.
myCore helps teachers not only plan great curricula using the process described above but also engages them in the job-embedded professional learning they crave. myCore is a cloud-based tool for planning and sharing lessons based on the Common Core that offers coaching help and content resources. The teacher-friendly interface makes using myCore a snap with minimal training and installation.
The Compass Suite is both a diagnostic and prescriptive professional development tool. The software streamlines the process of teacher and leader observations, allowing evaluators to input data online easily via laptop or mobile devices and to generate insightful reports and graphs. It is highly customizable, supporting local evaluation frameworks and reports. Once trends or target areas for improvement have been identified, the Compass Suite automatically suggests online professional development from a library of thousands of videos, tutorials and online modules. The PD library enables teachers and school leaders to browse, search and share professional development content from renowned authors such as Robert Marzano, Rick Stiggins, John Saphier and many others.
Success at the Core (SaC) is an innovative suite of web-based professional development materials that engage educators in collaborative work to improve instruction. SaC is driven by documentary-style videos of effective teachers and school leadership teams in action, and supported by a range of materials that foster reflection and discussion. The materials are grounded in research that points to school-based leadership teams and classroom teachers as the two groups that most impact instruction and ultimately, student achievement. It is free and available to anyone who registers on the website.
It is unique in the professional development field because it focuses on both school-based leadership teams and classroom teachers and features award-winning documentary quality videos that provide access to real classrooms.
Success at the Core offers a purposeful and flexible platform that allows educators to adapt materials to local priorities and needs. SaC is designed to be facilitated in-house, eliminating the need for costly outside facilitators required by many professional development resources. It is entirely web-based, has a unique multi-media presentation, and relies on a cache of multi-bit streaming video.
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