Teacher productivity tool

Definition[edit | edit source]

Tools to make a busy teacher's life more manageable.

(this is very provisional. I just made this entry to remind me to investigate this - Daniel K. Schneider 20:07, 3 May 2007 (MEST))

See also:

• Various tools
• Various

Provisional categories[edit | edit source]

Lesson planning

• lesson planners

Organizing class work, monitoring and grading

• Learner assessment tools (including evaluation rubrics)
• Grade management tools, see Gradebook
• Student monitoring tools (e.g. tracing activities in a LMS)
• Learning analytics tools

Course preparation

• Content tools (see various authoring tools
• Project management
• Presentation software
• Activity creators (puzzles, tests, webquests, etc.)

Templates

• Various paper-based forms that either students or learners can fill in
• Worksheet generators

Real-time presentation tools

• Some presentation tools allow for some sort of annotation
• On-screen annotation tools
• Electronic whiteboards or shared whiteboards.

Integrated software

• Integrated course book/course/manual grade book tools like TeacherTool
• Any sort of flexible CMS (e.g. a blog, wiki, a LMS) can be used for this

Physical teacher tools

• Time tracker tools
• Classroom response systems aka selector tools / clickers / audience response systems.
• Interactive whiteboards

Links[edit | edit source]

• A Productive School Year (WebQuest)
• The Laptops for Learning Report, includes things like Florida Educator Accomplished Practice #12: Technology or or Software
• Internet Based Teacher Productivity Tools (rather good list)
• ICT as a personal productivity tool in a teacher's professional work and career
• Teacher Tools: Create – Print – Use, TheCanadianTeacher.com

Software[edit | edit source]

• LehrerOffice Swiss German commercial product.
• Teacher Productivity Tools Classroom Software Collection
• Quiz & Test Creation Tools Assessment Authoring Tools Collection
• TeacherTool, “an iOS-App that effectively supports and simplifies your administrative and organizational work as a teacher; it is an electronic teacher’s calendar, grade book and course register” , retrieved 12:37, 10 October 2012 (CEST). As of oct. 2012, there are two versions: TeacherTool One and TeacherTool Flex. The latter allows to adapt TeacherTool to your own personal requirements and to only pay for what you really need.