- Module 1: Besides the people, what makes up a team in Microsoft Teams? We examine the structure and components of a team that make Teams such an efficient place for Class, Staff and PLC Teams.
- Determine the ideal structure for each Team
- Understand how to create and share new Teams
- Explain how to customize Teams with tabs like apps
- Module 2: Education colleagues collaborate using Microsoft Teams PLC Teams and Staff Teams. PLC Teams are for Personal Learning Communities to engage in professional and personal growth. Staff Teams are designed for school faculties, departments, and district offices.
- Select and create the right type of team for specific use cases
- Understand how to make the most of the OneNote Notebook in each type of team
- Identify features to optimize collaboration and accessibility in Teams
- Module 3: Staff Teams and PLC Teams in Microsoft Teams facilitate collaboration between professional colleagues and incorporate file sharing and organization.
- Recognize the differences between Staff Teams and PLC Teams
- Describe use cases for each type of team
- Understand how to organize people, files, and communications in Teams
- Module 4: Class Teams have all the tools educators need from course curriculum, down to daily lesson content, right to the details of the assignment workflow. Put another way, from introducing a topic to assessing it, everything has a place in Microsoft Teams. This module will demonstrate creating, distributing, collecting, and grading assignments. Microsoft Forms offers assessments built right into a Class Team. The feedback process in Teams is efficient for educators and meaningful for students. The grade book in Teams can integrate with many external grade book apps. Teams also offers Insights to track trends in students’ work and online behaviors. Those trends can include SEL components thanks to the Reflect app that can be added to Class Teams as well.
- Create, distribute, collect, and grade assignments in Microsoft Teams
- Create and embed polls, quizzes, and surveys with Microsoft Forms
- Analyze data collected with Insights
- Module 5: Microsoft Teams in educational settings is a hub for content and the centerpiece for collaboration. Teams facilitates communication between educators and students, families, colleagues, and the larger school community.
- Identify ways to build a class community using Microsoft Teams
- Explain how Teams facilitates conversations and collaboration
- Describe how to use the Class Notebook as a central location for course content
- Module 6: Discover new ways to create and share Microsoft Teams meetings that facilitate sharing different types of content from various sources. Explore the granular controls educators need while meeting students.
- Identify ways to create, share, and launch virtual meetings in Microsoft Teams
- Define multiple purposes and uses of virtual meetings
- Describe Microsoft Teams features for security and sharing content
- Module 7: Did your school see radical shifts in technology implementation during the pandemic? Are you wondering how to take the best of the tools and techniques from pandemic learning and create sustainable practices that increase student engagement and instructional personalization? Blended learning is not a new concept, but it is an instructional innovation that we are now uniquely positioned to adopt in our classrooms across the board in ways we may have previously found impractical. The influx of new technologies and incredible capacity for innovation that has been honed is ripe for transition into a classroom with the intentional flexibility of blended learning. Blended learning combines the best of whole-group instruction, independent learning, small group work, and assessment aided by authentic technology integration. This course walks you through the arc of blended learning models and offers specific technology tool examples to inspire your own plans.
- Identify multiple models of blended learning and how they support studentlearning.
- Determine which technology tools best match the learning goals for differentparts of the blended learning model.
- Develop a plan for reflection, assessment, and refining your blended learningmodel.
- Module 8: Blending learning environments offers students the best of all worlds of learning. Blended learning incorporates direct instruction in a face-to-face setting, indirect online instruction, collaborative teaching, and individualized computer-assisted learning to ensure students grow along their own learning paths. This module is designed to help school leaders assess, implement, navigate, and sustain a blended learning environment in their schools in a quest to improve every student’s learning outcomes and ensure high student agency.
- Assess current learning environments through a blended learning lens.
- Communicate with and involve multiple stakeholders in transition to blendedlearning environment.
- Explain why continuous improvement is important in sustaining blended learningfor the future.
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