Use assessment tools to conduct successful family-teacher conferences
Offered By: Microsoft via Microsoft Learn
Course Description
Overview
- Module 1: Educators learn the features of Microsoft Education Insights and how to leverage the tools to identify trends and inform decision making to best support students.
In this module, you will:
- Navigate your Insights dashboard to display data and identify trends.
- Proactively monitor student activity.
- Apply Insights metrics to support your students.
ISTE Standards for Educators:
- Educator - Analyst
- Leaders - Empowering Leader
- Module 2: Make learning more powerful and dynamic with Microsoft OneNote digital notebooks. Use OneNote to compile and organize information, research, and content; support research, collaboration, note taking, journaling, and reflection.
In this module, you will:
- Create personal a notebook
- Create, add, and share pages and content
- Identify how to organize OneNote effectively and quickly find materials within notebooks
- Manage a range of notebook settings
ISTE Standards for Educators:
- Educator - Facilitator
- Educator - Learner
- Educator -Collaborator
UNESCO Standards for Educators:
- Application of Digital skills
- Organization and Administration
- Teacher Professional Learning
- Module 3: Communicating student progress to parents creates a stronger home-school connection within the classroom. This course is designed to give educators an understanding of how to use Microsoft tools to plan and carry out a successful parent conference that is centered around the student. Modules are arranged within a sequential format to give educators proper techniques and tools to use before, during, and after meeting with parents. This course is meant for use within a face to face or a virtual setting.
In this module, you will:
- Design learning experiences through Teams that students can use to demonstrate mastery on a range of topics.
- Use Microsoft evaluation tools such as Insights to help monitor student success and enable educators to intervene as individual student needs change.
- Schedule conference times and conduct real-time translations with Microsoft tools for parents and guardians to better communicate student and family needs.
- Produce a holistic view of student progress and co-create goals for future learning opportunities with Microsoft tools.
ISTE Standards for Educators:
- Educator - Designer
- Educator - Leader
- Educator - Learner
- Module 4: This module expands upon the introduction module for hybrid learning, with a specific focus on creating a dynamic learning experience for students in primary grades. Primary grade educators will focus on the fundamentals of using Microsoft Teams as a centralized hub to create a comprehensive and collaborative hybrid classroom designed for primary-age learners.
In this module, you will:
- Create strategies for establishing community and collaboration in the hybrid-environment
- Create strategies for making the most of synchronous instruction with primary students
- Use Microsoft tools to assess learning and supply feedback
- Module 5: Microsoft Teams in educational settings is a hub for content and the centerpiece for collaboration. Teams facilitates communication between educators and students, families, colleagues, and the larger school community.
In this module, you will:
- Identify ways to build a class community using Microsoft Teams
- Explain how Teams facilitates conversations and collaboration
- Describe how to use the Class Notebook as a central location for course content
- Module 6: Microsoft Bookings helps educators save time and increase automation in their day-to-day tasks. Automate scheduling meetings and events—in person, online, one-to-one, and one-to-many. Bookings automates the back-and-forth communication needed for scheduling so time is given back to educators, staff, learners, and parents.
In this module, you will:
- Describe Microsoft Bookings and how it works in education
- Set up Bookings in the school
- Identify how Bookings can save time for educators and learners alike
Syllabus
- Module 1: Module 1: Leverage data for action with Microsoft Education Insights
- Introduction
- Data is power
- Enhance the learning cycle
- Access key data points
- Foster engagement in the digital learning space
- Improve academic outcomes
- Facilitate student reflection
- Knowledge check
- Summary
- Module 2: Module 2: Get started with OneNote
- Introduction
- Get started with OneNote (Windows 10)
- Add content to pages
- Customize and manage your notebooks
- Knowledge check
- Summary
- Module 3: Module 3: Countdown to successful family-teacher conferences
- Introduction
- Welcome
- Four weeks prior to conferences
- Three weeks prior to conferences
- Two weeks prior to conferences
- One week prior to conferences
- During conferences
- After conferences
- Reimagine conferences
- Knowledge check
- Summary
- Module 4: Module 4: Hybrid learning in the primary classroom
- Overview
- Introduction
- Learning environment
- Class community
- Lesson design
- Engagement and interactivity
- Assessment and feedback
- Knowledge check
- Summary
- Module 5: Module 5: Converse, collaborate, and build community in Teams
- Introduction
- Increase efficiency with Microsoft Class Teams
- Create an impact on learners
- Work with a team in channels
- Stay connected with conversations
- Build a content center with Class Notebook
- Enhance family communication
- Let me count the ways: The many educational uses for Microsoft Teams
- Knowledge check
- Summary
- Module 6: Module 6: Automate scheduling with Microsoft Bookings
- Introduction
- Microsoft Bookings in Education
- Get started with Microsoft Bookings
- Create program calendars and add staff
- Set up services in Microsoft Bookings
- Customize the booking page
- Book internal meetings
- Multi-seat events
- Use Bookings within Microsoft Teams
- Knowledge check
- Summary
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