Next-Level Digital Tools and Teaching: Solving Six Major Instructional Challenges, K-12

The book Next-Level Digital Tools and Teaching provides teachers with practical strategies and tools to enhance their technology-integrated instruction in K–12 classrooms, covering topics such as digital tools, planning, community building, and differentiation. It includes examples, checklists, and templates to support effective implementation and is applicable to face-to-face, online, or hybrid classroom settings.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 144 pages
Publication date: 30 April 2022
Publisher: Teachers' College Press

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented numerous challenges in online teaching and learning, and this authoritative resource aims to address these issues. Featuring teachers' experiences and classroom examples, the authors examine what is needed and what works to help educators improve current models of technology-integrated instruction in their schools and districts. With a focus on digital tools and planning for any setting, the text provides ready-to-use help for designing technology-integrated lessons, building and managing community, selecting the best digital tools for particular tasks, increasing student engagement, and differentiating instruction. The text also includes a final chapter that looks at how leaders can support schoolwide coordination and infrastructure. Action items at the end of each chapter address the specific needs of individuals, teams, and schools to help them shift from reflection to actual implementation, encouraging collaboration and accountability. Next-Level Digital Tools and Teaching is applicable to teaching and learning in face-to-face, online, or hybrid K–12 classroom settings.

Book Features:

Focuses on problems related to online teaching, specifically critical issues identified during the 2020–2021 school year.

Models how to design instruction that leverages technology tools designed to engage students with content in multiple ways.

Includes examples of lesson plans, digital tool applications, and ideas for assessing student knowledge in K–12 digital environments.

Provides ready-to-download checklists and templates.

Offers guidance that will continue to be valuable long after the world recovers from COVID-19 and students return to physical classrooms.

Weight: 209g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780807766545