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10 Google Classroom time savers for teachers

Matt Miller — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 15:54:00 +0000

Google Classroom can already make us more efficient, but these tips can save you even more time and effort. If you and your students are using Google Apps in the classroom, Google Classroom can save you tons of time and effort. It helps you assign, collect, grade and return work seamlessly. But, like anything else, there […]

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Time savers for teachers: A more efficient you!

Matt Miller — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:23:44 +0000

Time is always a factor for teachers. Looking for some time-management, productivity ideas to get more done? Look no further.It's something we're always looking for as teachers. Something always holding us back. Time. We never seem to have enough of it. If we had more of it, we could get more done and do more for our […]

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Ditch That Marking: 5+ ways to improve grading

Matt Miller — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 15:57:38 +0000

[callout]This post is written by Ben Whitaker, a religious studies teacher and Google Certified Educator/Trainer from Oswaldtwistle, England. It was originally published on his own blog here. Find him on Twitter at @itsbenwhitaker and at his website, itsbenwhitaker.weebly.com.[/callout] I had a pile of assessments to mark (grade). I knew was going to take the best […]

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Quick Google Forms time savers for teachers

Matt Miller — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:18:23 +0000

Google Forms is a great tool for surveying others and collecting data from them. By using Forms in that way, it can save us tons of time. It can save us even more time when we survey ourselves. I can hear your response to that one … Wait, Matt … survey ourselves? Have you gone […]

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Seeing tech in the classroom as ‘just another thing’

Matt Miller — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:41:43 +0000

Jam-packed curriculum. State assessments and required lessons. Field trips and school assemblies. Our lesson plan books are already packed to the gills. Class time is so precious. With all the interruptions and impositions on it, we feel like we have to make the most of every minute, especially when lots of goals and benchmarks ride […]

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Stop doing too much: The “minimum effective dose” for educators

Matt Miller — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 10:59:37 +0000

I always dreaded handing papers back to students. After they had turned them in, I spent hours grading them. Marking them up. Correcting the errors. Then, when I would hand them back, so many of them ended up in the trash without a glance at my work. My work to help them improve. I knew […]

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12 ideas to prepare students for jobs that don’t exist yet

Matt Miller — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:39:36 +0000

The career frontier is an ever-changing one. Sixty-five percent of today’s schoolchildren will eventually be employed in jobs that have yet to be created, according to this U.S. Department of Labor report. Educators have a daunting task ahead of them: teach students skills to solve problems we’ve never seen before and won’t see for years. […]

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