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Use assessment tools to conduct successful family-teacher conferences

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Overview

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  • Module 1: Educators learn the features of Microsoft Education Insights and how to leverage the tools to identify trends and inform decision making to best support students.

    In this module, you will:

    • Navigate your Insights dashboard to display data and identify trends.
    • Proactively monitor student activity.
    • Apply Insights metrics to support your students.

    ISTE Standards for Educators:

    • Educator - Analyst
    • Leaders - Empowering Leader
  • Module 2: Make learning more powerful and dynamic with Microsoft OneNote digital notebooks. Use OneNote to compile and organize information, research, and content; support research, collaboration, note taking, journaling, and reflection.

    In this module, you will:

    • Create personal a notebook
    • Create, add, and share pages and content
    • Identify how to organize OneNote effectively and quickly find materials within notebooks
    • Manage a range of notebook settings

    ISTE Standards for Educators:

    • Educator - Facilitator
    • Educator - Learner
    • Educator -Collaborator

    UNESCO Standards for Educators:

    • Application of Digital skills
    • Organization and Administration
    • Teacher Professional Learning
  • Module 3: Communicating student progress to parents creates a stronger home-school connection within the classroom. This course is designed to give educators an understanding of how to use Microsoft tools to plan and carry out a successful parent conference that is centered around the student. Modules are arranged within a sequential format to give educators proper techniques and tools to use before, during, and after meeting with parents. This course is meant for use within a face to face or a virtual setting.

    In this module, you will:

    • Design learning experiences through Teams that students can use to demonstrate mastery on a range of topics.
    • Use Microsoft evaluation tools such as Insights to help monitor student success and enable educators to intervene as individual student needs change.
    • Schedule conference times and conduct real-time translations with Microsoft tools for parents and guardians to better communicate student and family needs.
    • Produce a holistic view of student progress and co-create goals for future learning opportunities with Microsoft tools.

    ISTE Standards for Educators:

    • Educator - Designer
    • Educator - Leader
    • Educator - Learner
  • Module 4: This module expands upon the introduction module for hybrid learning, with a specific focus on creating a dynamic learning experience for students in primary grades. Primary grade educators will focus on the fundamentals of using Microsoft Teams as a centralized hub to create a comprehensive and collaborative hybrid classroom designed for primary-age learners.

    In this module, you will:

    • Create strategies for establishing community and collaboration in the hybrid-environment
    • Create strategies for making the most of synchronous instruction with primary students
    • Use Microsoft tools to assess learning and supply feedback
  • 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.

    In this module, you will:

    • 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: Microsoft Bookings helps educators save time and increase automation in their day-to-day tasks. Automate scheduling meetings and events—in person, online, one-to-one, and one-to-many. Bookings automates the back-and-forth communication needed for scheduling so time is given back to educators, staff, learners, and parents.

    In this module, you will:

    • Describe Microsoft Bookings and how it works in education
    • Set up Bookings in the school
    • Identify how Bookings can save time for educators and learners alike

Syllabus

  • Module 1: Module 1: Leverage data for action with Microsoft Education Insights
    • Introduction
    • Data is power
    • Enhance the learning cycle
    • Access key data points
    • Foster engagement in the digital learning space
    • Improve academic outcomes
    • Facilitate student reflection
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary
  • Module 2: Module 2: Get started with OneNote
    • Introduction
    • Get started with OneNote (Windows 10)
    • Add content to pages
    • Customize and manage your notebooks
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary
  • Module 3: Module 3: Countdown to successful family-teacher conferences
    • Introduction
    • Welcome
    • Four weeks prior to conferences
    • Three weeks prior to conferences
    • Two weeks prior to conferences
    • One week prior to conferences
    • During conferences
    • After conferences
    • Reimagine conferences
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary
  • Module 4: Module 4: Hybrid learning in the primary classroom
    • Overview
    • Introduction
    • Learning environment
    • Class community
    • Lesson design
    • Engagement and interactivity
    • Assessment and feedback
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary
  • Module 5: Module 5: Converse, collaborate, and build community in Teams
    • Introduction
    • Increase efficiency with Microsoft Class Teams 
    • Create an impact on learners
    • Work with a team in channels 
    • Stay connected with conversations
    • Build a content center with Class Notebook
    • Enhance family communication 
    • Let me count the ways: The many educational uses for Microsoft Teams 
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary
  • Module 6: Module 6: Automate scheduling with Microsoft Bookings
    • Introduction
    • Microsoft Bookings in Education
    • Get started with Microsoft Bookings
    • Create program calendars and add staff
    • Set up services in Microsoft Bookings
    • Customize the booking page
    • Book internal meetings
    • Multi-seat events
    • Use Bookings within Microsoft Teams
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary

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