by MTI: Professional Development Courses | Apr 13, 2020 | Teaching During a Crisis
By Jacqui Murray Teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic is challenging. We educators understand online learning, probably have taken classes this way, but we haven’t yet wrapped our brains around how to make it work in OUR classes. In fact, the biggest question I...
by MTI: Professional Development Courses | Apr 13, 2020 | Classroom Management & Behavior
By Jacqui Murray Every teacher knows that students do better with positive reinforcement. As tempting as “punishment” might sound when referring to that student who has scrambled your last nerve, to explain consequences of actions in positive terms goes...
by MTI: Professional Development Courses | Apr 13, 2020 | Classroom Management & Behavior
By Jacqui Murray I teach online grad school classes in how to integrate tech into education. One topic I always ask students is how they manage cell phone usage in their classes. Protocols for these mobile devices have little in common today with how they were...
by MTI: Professional Development Courses | Apr 13, 2020 | General Teaching
By Jacqui Murray Technology and the connected world put a fork in the old model of teaching–instructor in front of the class, sage on the stage, students madly taking notes, textbooks opened, homework as worksheets, and tests regurgitating facts. Did I miss anything?...
by MTI: Professional Development Courses | Apr 13, 2020 | General Teaching
By Jacqui Murray To meet state and national requirements (and receive critical funding), schools must be open a minimum number of days each year. When dramatic weather hits — be it snow or violent storms or another emergency — it becomes impossible to...
