Interactive Review: How Dearborn Social Studies Teachers are Changing the Game
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Interactive Review: How Dearborn Social Studies Teachers are Changing the Game

Over the past two weeks, I have been working with a team of outstanding high school social studies teachers, including Mr. Hussein Beydoun, Mr. Marc Golles, Mr. William Harrison, Mr. Pete Kotsogiannis, Mrs. Katie Meyers, Mr. Jamie Nack, Ms. Fatmeh Rida, and Mrs. Colleen Schumm to create a comprehensive review course on Moodle (iLearn) for the High School Social Studies M-Step. The result…

Radical Learning Transformations in Mrs. Maynor’s Algebra 2A Class
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Radical Learning Transformations in Mrs. Maynor’s Algebra 2A Class

Edsel Ford Math teacher Mrs. Angela Maynor recently created a virtual lesson using Moodle (iLearn). Her lesson consisted of several content pages that introduced the concept of radical equations. Her lesson is expertly organized, modeling sequences used by effective teachers. In the early pages of the lesson, Mrs. Maynor introduces the concept of radical equations…

Toward a More Consistently-Enacted Curriculum

Toward a More Consistently-Enacted Curriculum

First year teacher Ahmad Charara was assigned to teach Computer Applications at Lowrey Middle School this year.  Fortunately, over the past several years, the Computer Applications course has been built on iLearn, Dearborn’s Moodle courseware–largely due to the work of former Lowrey teacher Denise Elliott. The course Ms. Elliott built is now being used across the…

Differentiating Instruction Using iLearn

Differentiating Instruction Using iLearn

Yesterday, teachers Gihan Fradi and Christina West, who co-teach a chemistry class at Edsel Ford used a short, 4-question iLearn quiz to gather data on student understanding, which they then used to break the class into groups to work on their progress, since all students were at different points in their understanding.  This is just…

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