Enhancing Teacher Communication with Technology

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Teachers communicate with and about our students constantly. We face some challenges in making that communication effective and efficient. We need to communicate differentiated instructions and tasks to groups and individuals and ensure every student understands those instructions and remains focused. We have to assess not only our students’ knowledge but also their understanding and their learning strengths and needs. We need to record and share evidence of the process and the products of student learning in terms of knowledge, understanding, and skills across the curriculum. All of this can be hard to do in a busy learning environment, especially when we need to find ways of doing it meaningfully, consistently, and sustainably. As our schools and classrooms become more diverse and the pressures on teachers and students continue to grow, traditional approaches of teacher communication will become less and less effective. Technology has the power to enhance and streamline how we communicate with students, parents, and colleagues and to mitigate some of the difficulties involved.

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