I think there are a plethora of teacher task software that can help teachers manage their classroom, but I can think of three that were vital in my time in the classroom last year. The first is Google Slides/PowerPoint. I used Google Slides in some capacity nearly every day in my classroom. I had a smart board in the front of the room, so I would display the bell ringer, lesson, practice problems, instructions for an assignment, etc. One useful aspect of google slides is that I could log into my google account on my laptop at home and make any additions or changes, and I would not have to worry about copying it over to a thumb drive or anything like that. Since Google Slides are saved to the cloud, it would make the changes and when I would login at school, the changes would be there. I could also cast my Ipad screen onto the board and still have google slides pulled up. This helped me move through the classroom during class, which helped with classroom management quite a bit.
The second software is School Status. This is a software our district uses to communicate to parents. It can also be used to look at discipline for students, absences, and it had previous state test results. This is the primary way that I would communicate with parents. There are options for a large blast to send out before a quiz or test, or you can send individual messages to parents. I used this almost daily to communicate with my parents. I also used it a the beginning of the school year to look into the state test scores from the previous year. The third software that was vital to my success last year was an ExamView Test Generator. I used this to create some worksheets and every quiz/test we took last year. This had a question bank based on standards that you could choose from. It also gave you the option to reorder/recalculate the questions. I would use this to create the study guide, then reorder and recalculate the values to use for the test. This also made it easy to make multiple forms of a test to try and reduce cheating(although some still tried despite my multiple warnings). Other software that I used that was super useful was Plickers, I-Ready, Kahoot, Quiziz, IXL, Google Docs, Google Sheets, and more. While most of mine are Math related, I believe most of these could be useful for other subject areas as well.
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6/21/2020 05:38:26 am
Hello again Luke,
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6/21/2020 07:25:31 am
Hello, Luke
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6/21/2020 09:44:31 am
It sounds like we used very similar technology in the classroom last year. My school used SchoolStatus as well, and it was a life saver most days. Having phone conversations recorded was wonderful, as I could simply listen to the conversation again when I forgot what a parent said.
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