Category: Empowered Learner
Teacher Feature: Seesaw Practice Boards with Reyna and Maureen
Looking to cut down on the amount of Seesaw activities you are assigning, collecting, and responding to? Consider creating Seesaw practice boards to streamline your class work and create meaningful independent practice activities for students in a predictable structure. In this teacher feature, we highlight two Issaquah School District elementary teachers who are using Seesaw practice boards to promote student independence, improve teacher workflow, ...
Student Agency: Use Seesaw to Plan for Conferences
While we still have weeks until parent conferences, we know that teachers are already busy preparing to make these as positive and productive as possible. Many of our students are already using Seesaw to submit work and track their own learning, so why not take advantage of this platform when meeting with families? If you’ve ...
ISTE Empowered Learner: Student Learning in Action
The ISTE standards are perhaps more important now than ever as we are all diving into the technology world of education. This year, your Building Tech Series will highlight an ISTE standard each month and we are kicking off with Empowered Learner. Empowered Learner sets a goal for “Students [to] leverage technology to take an ...
Canvas Learning Mastery Paths
Differentiation in Canvas is not as easy as we hoped. We can easily adjust due dates, but what is the best way of offering differentiated content? One way is through Learning Mastery Paths. Erin Kwok at Pacific Cascade Middle School has taken the initiative in understanding more about this feature in Canvas and its connection ...
Engage Students through Seesaw Choice Boards
Are you looking to offer students choice in how to engage with content, demonstrate their learning, and liven up routines? Try creating a “Choice Board” in Seesaw! Choice boards are essentially graphic organizers comprised of images or other shapes that offer students choice in how to complete an instructional activity. Choice boards have many powerful ...
Giving Feedback to Students in Seesaw
In this time of distance learning, giving feedback to students has become a bit different because much of it has to be done remotely. There is no one-to-one personal conferencing. And families may be having a challenging time at home navigating all the online assignments. It has become vital to give quick but meaningful feedback ...
Supports For Using Seesaw at School And at Home
Seesaw is an Issaquah School District (ISD) supported tool available to teachers and students. Elementary teachers and students at school can access Seesaw for Schools (Seesaw's paid school service) through their Clever accounts or by using the class QR code in the Class App and at web.seesaw.me. Secondary teachers and students can access Seesaw's free ...
Take Seesaw To The Next “Level”
So you have been using Seesaw since the beginning of the year. You have gotten your parents connected and they are able to see some of the wonderful learning that is going on in your classroom. But maybe you as the teacher have been doing all the posting. You have been really good at taking ...
Using Seesaw to Showcase Student Learning During Conferences
Hey, Elementary Teachers. You may not want to hear this yet, but... CONFERENCES ARE COMING! It will be here before you know it and you may be trying to think of some ways to show parents all the great things your students have learned so far since the beginning of the school year. Last year, ...
Seesaw Gets Drafty
Seesaw seems to always be looking for ways to help students show their learning. They are also really good at listening to feedback from teachers, students, and parents when they have ideas for improving an already awesome tool. One of the most often requested feature over the last few years is Drafts. This featuer would ...