How My-eCoach Can Help Meet My Classroom Needs

Marcelo Leal

BAFLP Team MemberMy-eCoach Trainer

To introduce My-eCoach as a tool for:

• Helping teachers plan / organize• Engaging students

• Helping teachers professionally

Purpose:

Essential Questions:

What are the expectations for the 21st century educator?

What are the tools that are going to get you there?

Outcomes:

Identify the benefits of My-Ecoach to support web-based lesson and unit plan development.

Introduce the My-Ecoach library and its free teacher resources.

Invite and review how participants can sign up for the Team Technology using My-eCoach .

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STEP #2

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STEP #3

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STEP #4

Group ActivityWith a partner discuss the following in a Pair Share:

Introduce yourself, the school where you teach, and what you teach.Discuss: How technology has or can improve collaboration and make it easier to share lessons and units.

How do you organize or store your units, lessons, student work, and resources etc ?

What do you think are the obstacles to collaborate and sharing ideas with other colleagues?

How do you manage working on units together with a colleague?

What do you think are the obstacles to collaborate and sharing ideas with other colleagues?

How many times have you tried to get together to work on units after a conference or in the summer to work together with a colleague?

IS THIS YOU?

I’m preparing a

unit andI needHELP!

Why can’t our department collaborate

more effectively?

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STEP #1

STEP #2

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What is My- Ecoach?

An educators’ website created by teachers who want a one-stop-shop to create on-line units and lessons with easy to use templates with no web experience needed.

A site to store student work, find peer reviewed resources, and improve your tech savvy with tools like blogs, podcasts, webquests, e-quizzes etc

How will it help me in the classroom

Build units lessons no need for binders and file cabinets

Unit sample

How will it help my students

Student’s work, on-line quizzes review, webquests

My class website

How will it help me professionally?

Professional looking, e-portfolio, mobility, transparency

Migrant Ed program

My E-Portfolio

Pair Share

Which of the features of My-eCoach did you find the most helpful?

•Classroom uses•Student uses•Professional aspects

Communication

Why use My-Ecoach

Sharing best practicesCommunity

Units matchedwith standards

Collaboration

Mentoring

Online organizer for lessons/Units

Access to the My-Ecoach Library- which includes teacher’s lessons as well as

Handouts

Images

Templates

Videos

Audio files

Podcasts

Finally

PLEASE GO TO YOUR EMAIL

Becoming a part of the

TECH TEAM

http://my-ecoach.com/

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What does the TEAM PAGE look like?

Post resources to help the team. BTW TODAY’S HW

(part1)

A forum serves as way to communicate and keep in touch (Part

2 HW)

Team activities, project review, calendar,tech support,etc.

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Other e-coachesand teachers

online

Everyone’s

projects

Let’s explore My-Ecoach’s library

Click on Language

Arts

How are you rethinking teaching in the 21st century?

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