Have I mentioned how thankful I am to work in a district that invests in resources to support teaching and learning? Our district level purchases are one thing, but after this month I truly believe that this mindset at central services has had a ripple effect.
I work closely with four of our district's schools. One of them - a high school - made the decision to purchase Pear Deck Premium for the staff. Spearheaded by the English department, this purchase will benefit all! I do love what this platform can do - especially to enhance remote learning - and was thrilled to partner with the English department chair to offer professional development to the entire staff. In recent weeks, I have had 1:1 sessions with teachers of all content areas at the school to share the love of the Pear. In this more formal session, we took teachers through a lesson taking care to utilize the powerful tools Pear Deck offers during the session. We demonstrated how to go back and forth between teacher and student paced mode. We showed participants the different features of the teacher dashboards - showing responses during delivery with no names (even overlapping the draggable/drawing answers to show all responses at once) and them and using the teacher dashboard in a separate window with names and the ability to send comments! Their minds were blown! The ultimate end to this session had them creating items they could use the next day - everyone left with a lesson ready for class! Pear Deck is hands-down one of the best investments a school can make if they truly value the work of learning. Money well spent. Can't wait to see the return on this investment!
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AuthorJeannie Timken Archives
March 2023
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