Leadership Styles
Six leadership styles—Transformational, Delegative, Authoritative, Transactional, Participative, and Servant—are outlined, emphasizing their distinct approaches to change, delegation, vision-building, reward systems, collaborative decision-making, and people-first ethics, respectively. Leaders often blend these styles, with one typically being predominant. Understanding personal leadership style is crucial for leaders, as it influences team dynamics, motivation, and organizational success.
Adding a Drawing Tablet to Improve Grading and Feedback
This past calendar year, I have been working to improve my grading and assessment processes. I want to make these processes transparent, streamlined, and provides students with information they can use to grow. The first part of this process was…
Google Sheets: How to Make a QR Code
QR codes are a very convenient way to create a link to information or get someone to a specific web destination. Most people using either an android or apple phone can easily get to QR code read in their phones…
Creating Handouts & Worksheets for Print and Digital Use
Over the past decade education at all levels has been moving to digital content delivery through the use of various learning management systems (LMS). However, most of the content that teachers post for there students to use is primarily created…
Building Online Glossaries to Support Student Learning
Terminology and vocabulary is a critical component of information context, it allows students to build meaning about larger pieces of information and to connect pieces of information together which builds bigger meaning. These are some of the reasons that most…
Using Lotus Diagrams to Facilitate Brainstorming
In my classroom I am often using brainstorming activates to my students generate new ideas especially when I they say “I can’t think of anything”. This is often the student’s initial reaction because of barriers to the brainstorming process, a…
Giving Feedback in the Digital Classroom
Whether you are in math, ELA, science, design, art or a multitude of other subjects most share a learning process of input, process, output, feedback. In education we have often lacked the feedback portion of this loop. We give students…
Creating an Image Caption in Google Docs
Google Docs doesn’t directly have a way to create image captions in their program, however there are several ways to create this effect fairly easily with the tools available already in Google Docs.
Going Fully Paperless in my Classes
This school year, I went paperless in my classroom. I was super tired of having assignments cluttering up my desk and looming at me as if to say “GRADE ME”. I learned a lot when we had to do remote…