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Bulldog College
NORTH DALLAS BULLDOG COLLEGE
Teachers Online Professional Development Resources
PLC - All Levels
- An Introduction to Teacher Development
- Tips for Effective Parent-Teacher Conferencing
- Five Quick Classroom Management Tips for Novice Teachers
- Teaching as a Team Sport
- Inquiry Teacher Teams
- The New Teacher Experience
- Experiential Learning: Learning By Doing
- Collaborating to Review Student Work
- Using Video to Improve Practice: Do it Yourself
- Six Ways to Build Relationships With Students
- Inquiry-Based Teaching: Building a Culture of Respect
- Inquiry-Based Teaching: Supporting Quieter Students
- Inquiry-Based Teaching: Encouraging Powerful Ideas
- Five Keys to Social and Emotional Learning
- This is Water - An inspirational graduation speech by David Foster Wallace
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
- How does a conversation unfold among students on the Wall of Silence?
- See how students experience text physically and emotionally with the Power Tableau
- How does the Circle Discussion prepare students for writing?
- "Whoever is doing the talking is doing the learning." How can you facilitate learning through speaking in your own classroom?
- Why is it helpful to explicitly focus on academic transitions?
Socratic Seminar: Supporting Claims and Counterarguments
- What strategies encourage higher student engagement and individual participation?
- In what ways do sentence stems help students learn to respectfully express ideas?
- How might you use a Socratic seminar with the content you are currently teaching?
- How do you scaffold instruction to build students' understanding of the text?
- What role does modeling play in this lesson?
- How do you use the write-like, blank verse, and choral reading to make the text relevant to students?
- How does small group discussion prepare students for their writing task?
- What role does reading aloud play in the revision process?
- How does this strategy make work more manageable and effective for both teachers and students?
- How does the reaction/narrative connect to the final argument?
- How does this progression (narrative to argument) help students move from details to ideas? From concrete to abstract?
- Why is it important for students to respond to non-fiction texts?
MATHEMATICS
- How does this strategy encourage independence?
- How could this strategy be used to help students critique the work of others?
- How do real-world scenarios increase engagement and retention of concepts?
- Why is it important to give students a chance to apply their learning?
- How does this lesson address auditory, kinesthetic and visual learners?
- How does student discovery of angle relationships aid retention more than being told the angle relationship?
- How does the U-P-S process foster productive collaboration?
- How can you encourage writing in the math classroom?
- How does the teacher help students learn skills for success?