LessonCast helps learning communities design professional development that targets specific needs and changes instructional practice. We support a continuum of professional learning that spans support for teachers new to the classroom, experienced teachers with expertise to share, and leaders guiding a community in improving instruction. Why I became a teacher
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Growing up, I never thought about becoming a teacher. I wanted to be an actress or dancer or singer....
Archive for July 2011
A Teacher-Built Technology Tool by Audrey Watters
LessonCast is honored that Audrey Watters featured LessonCast in her NPR article. A Teacher-Built Technology Tool Audrey Watters NPR KQED Mind/Shift For all the gadgets and software and devices out there available to educators, what technology do they really need? Do we stop long enough to ask? The exhibition hall at ISTE 2011 was a mammoth affair, but walking up and down the seemingly endless aisles, I wondered which of these are really necessary? The question has been on my mind at least as long as the Startup Weekend …
Edge21 Catch of the Day: LessonCast
LessonCast is honored to be featured as Edge21′s Catch of the Day. Edge21 Catch of the Day: LessonCast by Thomas Boito LessonCast is a place where teachers will be able to share and find exemplars of the “what, why, and how of effective teaching.” In 2 ½ minutes or less, lessoncasts focus on a single lesson idea or management strategy. LessonCast content is created by teachers with ideas they want to share. Contributors can use built-in screen capture technology to record what is being displayed on their computer’s screen (it can be …
Meet Katrina Stevens
Katrina Stevens (@katrinastevens1) got her start in edtech blogging for LessonCast from 2011-2012. “Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.” -William Butler Yeats My deep-seated belief in social justice drives all I do in education. In my heart of hearts, I truly believe that education is the only path to freedom and equity and that all students deserve access to a quality education. If my family had an early inkling that I would become a teacher, it was cemented when I organized a neighborhood nursery …
Meet Nicole Tucker-Smith
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mohandas Gandhi Growing up, my mom’s best friend knew that I was going to be a teacher way before I was ever able to consciously express that desire. My Aunt Roslyn was a social studies teacher, and when she passed I inherited many of her books – for teaching, learning, and good ole’ leisure reading. My mom is a teacher, too, and from both of them I gained a thirst to learn more and …
LessonCast Featured on EduTecher
LessonCast is honored to be featured on Adam Bellow’s EduTecher. LessonCast Featured on EduTecher
ClassCorp (Final Product)
During the review phase, our community of teacher-learners asked clarifying questions about how exactly to implement Michael’s great idea. He responded by modifying the script and adding descriptive elements that may have been intuitive to an experienced teacher but make all the difference for teacher-learners trying to reapply this technique.
