Become a Professional Learning MVP! Welcome to Plano ISD’s Trade Learning Saturday! All sessions qualify for 2024-2025 trade hours. Stay for both sessions, and you’ll take home 3 hours of credit.
Please bring your district device as some of the sessions may require the use of technology.
Do your students struggle with time management, task initiation, organization, and other Executive Functions? Increase your knowledge of Executive Functions, the air traffic controller of the brain. Leave with practical, implementable strategies across classroom settings to promote development of students’ executive functions for academic, social, and behavioral success!
Break free from the constraints of the traditional classroom setup and learn how to harness the power of your iPad and Apple TV for untethered teaching. This session will guide you through seamless presentation techniques using Google Slides, Pear Deck, and dedicated iPad apps. You’ll discover how to annotate and record directly from your iPad using Explain Everything, adding dynamic engagement to your lessons. Gain the freedom to move, interact, and teach with enhanced mobility, making your classroom a more interactive and responsive learning environment.
Unleash the power of three-dimensional learning! Educators will discover how to transform abstract concepts into tangible, hands-on experiences in this session. Encourage comparison, collaboration, and a deeper understanding of complex ideas by guiding students to create their own three-dimensional cubes representing these concepts. This session is designed to cater to visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and reading/writing learners, and the instructor is ready to help customize the lesson to fit your specific content. Bring your creativity, be prepared to collaborate, and get ready to bring abstract ideas to life in 3D!
Do your students struggle with time management, task initiation, organization, and other Executive Functions? Increase your knowledge of Executive Functions, the air traffic controller of the brain. Leave with practical, implementable strategies across classroom settings to promote development of students’ executive functions for academic, social, and behavioral success!
Want to learn the best keyboard shortcuts, Chrome extensions and other cool moves to save time and do more? In this session, we’ll reveal some of the most popular tips and tricks that will help you navigate like a Boss the various Google tools we love and use so much such as Docs, Slides, Drive, Chrome, and more! Walk in as an everyday educator, walk out as a Google Guru.
