How to Promote Effective Feedback in Your School and Spur Student Growth

Have you heard this “training is just wasted time” complaint from learners and leaders? Sadly yes. Most training and learning programs are time-wasters. They suck the life out of learners’ energies, time and enthusiasm - consequently, we cause them to fail in their work. The single biggest reason is our compulsion to “force train” or “force feed” ALL of the content we feel they must learn.

The library makerspace is emerging as a powerful vehicle for increasing library visibility and value to the student community. In this session, Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair, and Donna Burns, Technology Integrator, of New Canaan High School in Connecticut, feature how reorganization and materials selection helped one learning community fully embrace “making” across disciplines and grade levels.Participants can expect to learn strategies that will grow maker culture. This session is of particular benefit to K-12 librarians, teachers, and administrators, and is designed to empower educators to lead transformational learning through making regardless of where they are on the maker continuum.

Microlearning is quite the rage in the training world right now. However, its songs of glory are overshadowed by myths that dilute the use of microlearning in corporate training.While many think it’s just a fad that’s bound to fizzle out soon, many other L&D practitioners are making it out to be the panacea for all training requirements. While both arguments hold little water, organizations looking to implement microlearning in their training strategy need to strike the right balance by incorporating microlearning assets at strategic places in their training framework.

If you are running IT in a K-12 district then you know how challenging help desk services for your K-12 constituents can be—between resource constraints, increased demand for technology, and higher expectations for service—the struggle is real.