Model Teaching Spotlight Webinars

In this Model Teaching Spotlight webinar, you will explore Think-Pair-Share as a research-backed collaborative learning model and learn how to implement it effectively in any classroom. You will consider some elements that determine whether a collaboration activity produces strong learning, evaluate the kind of prompts you might build to promote higher-order thinking and peer discourse, and consider how you might use the think-pair-share collaborative structure to engage your students.

Learn about the benefits of brain breaks and explore simple brain break strategies you can implement through your lessons. You will have the opportunity to plan to implement brain breaks, leave the course with ideas and strategies to immediately add these ideas to your next lesson.

Explore guidelines for teaching testing behaviors, testing strategies, and a process for students to justify their answer choices on assessments. You will learn specific behaviors or strategies to identify in students, as well as simple methods to explicitly teach appropriate testing behaviors.

In this webinar, you will learn how using AI prompting can save you time on many different teaching tasks, including differentiation and lesson planning. You will learn the concept of the mega prompt and how to use AI specifically to help train other AI tools to produce a better result. You will also look at two specific examples and be provided with 2 dozen additional examples of how AI can help increase your productivity.

Student engagement is essential for meaningful learning, yet it is often misunderstood or reduced to compliance or simple participation. In this focused 30-minute webinar, you will explore the Five Levels of Engagement and consider what it means to intentionally design instruction that moves students from passive involvement to authentic engagement with classroom content. You’ll leave with three simple strategies you can use right away to begin shifting student engagement in your classroom.