Great Apps for Teachers

Great Apps for Teachers

 

'Teaching Made Easy, Child Observations'

Teaching Made Easy - Child Observations is a recording and reporting tool developed to assist educators in continuous documentation and assessment to meet the needs of individual learners.

*Features and Benefits*
- Spend more time with children and less time on recording and reporting.
- Build individual portfolios of photo observations, stored by date, for each child.
- Meet the requirements of National Quality Regulations by providing evidence of continuous recording, reporting and reflective teaching practices.
- Instantly add photographs, document and save a learning experience. Easily open, refine and add outcomes to your observation at the end of the day if you prefer.

- A selection of Curriculum Frameworks to choose from including
(AU) EYLF
(AU) QKLG
(AU) Australian Curriculum – Foundation Year (additional Year Levels to be added in future updates)
(AU) MTOP - School Age Care
(NZ) Te Whariki
(UK) EYFS and Developmental Matters
(USA) Common Core ELA and Mathematics Pre-K
(USA) Common Core ELA and Mathematics K
(USA) Common Core ELA and Mathematics Grades 1-8
(Universal) Developmental Milestones

- Email your child observation to your computer for printing and storage or forward directly to parents.
- Duplicate feature saves time in rewriting observations for multiple children when recording a pair/group experience.
- Double password protection ensures the privacy of children's confidential information.

'Teaching Made Easy - Child Observations' is the most user-friendly app available for documenting children's play and learning, with the added benefit no on-going subscription fees.

To learn more
~Join over 5,000 likers on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/TeachingMadeEasyandEYLFMadeEasy

~Watch our 'TME Child Observations App Tutorial'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH__owZZvgQ

 

~Here is the link to the iTunes Preview Page

https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/teaching-made-easy-child-observations/id627106726?mt=8

 

Record of Reading

Running records, developed by Marie M. Clay, are a method for observing and assessing a child’s oral reading. The Record of Reading app is designed to provide an electronic form for taking a running record. The app provides embedded formulas for the accuracy and self-correction rate (no need for a calculator!), but of course, the teacher does all the coding and analysis. Once the running record is complete, it can be saved in a file or emailed. In addition, the app records the student’s voice while the teacher simultaneously takes the record. When replaying the running record, the oral reading and the record are synced. For more information on taking running records, please see "An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement" (Clay, 2005).

 

~Here is the link to the iTunes Preview Page

https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/record-of-reading/id543574721?mt=8

 

Explain Everything

Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.

Create slides, draw in any color, add shapes, add text, and use a laser pointer. Rotate, move, scale, copy, paste, clone, and lock any object added to the stage.

Add new or existing photos and videos. Import PDF, PPT, DOC, XLS, Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and RTF files from Evernote, Dropbox, Box, GDrive, WebDAV, Email, iTunes, and any app that allows you to open these files types using "Open In…". Export MP4 movies, PDF documents, PNG images, or XPL project files directly from your iPad.

No account is necessary to use Explain Everything and share creations.

Explain Everything has been a top paid education app since its release in Australia, United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Finland.

~Here is the link to the iTunes Preview Page

https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/explain-everything/id431493086?mt=8

 

More to come ..........

 

 

Write a review, receive a FREE resource

'Teaching Made Easy, Child Observations' is the most user-friendly app on the market for completing photographic documentation and recording and reporting your students learning and play against current curriculum frameworks.

Here is just a few Testimonials from users -

'Just wanted to say I went and bought an iPad today after seeing just how simple you have made the documentation app. Thankyou, Thankyou, Thankyou for making life so simple and more about spending time with the children instead of on too much paper work. Just love it.' Deanne S

'I am loving the App. It is wonderful that you have listened to our feedback and reacted so quickly. Great job on a fantastic product.' Kirsty H

'This is such a great app! It is a bargain! I think every family day carer should have it.'  Clare A
'Thanks guys we bought profiles last week and started to play with it. Really love the look of the printouts on the updated version last week.' Sharyn V

'Thanks for all your help and thanks heaps for an awesome app. Now I can take obs ... and have fun doing it!' Belinda H

Could you please help us by writing a review for our app?

You can do this on your Mac or PC by
1.Opening iTunes.
2.Finding the TME app to review.
3.Click "Write a Review" in the Ratings and Reviews section.
4.Sign in with your Apple ID.
5.Enter a title, select a 5 star rating, and write your review.
6.Click Submit.

You can do this on your iOS device by
1.Tapping on iTunes or App Store.
2.Finding the item you want to review.
3.Tapping "Write a Review" in the Reviews section.
4.Signing in with your Apple ID.
5.Select a 5 star rating, enter a title, and write your review.
6.Tap Submit.

After you have written your review send us an email titled 'App Review' to info@teachingmadeeasyprint.com.au with the username you used to write the review. When it appears on the review page we will send you a FREE copy of our new 'Problem Meter' by return email for you to print for your classroom. The Problem Meter assists children in recognising their overreaction to a situation and in discussing appropriate reactions and solutions when a problem occurs.
Thank you for your time, it is appreciated. From Andrea, for Teaching Made Easy

Child Observations, Myths and Realities

I received a really interesting email enquiry this morning that went something like this,

'I have the Teaching Made Easy Obs App on my iPad. I am wondering how I can add the Principles and Practices to the Obs which needs to be on them.'

 

My response follows ...

I am wondering who told you that the Principles and Practices must be included on a Child Observation? Neither the EYLF nor the NQS prescribe how many observations are required or what format a Child Observation must take.

Why aren’t the Principles and Practices of the EYLF included on the ‘Teaching Made Easy – Child Observations’ iPad App?

It is the outcomes which refer to what you see children doing/saying/learning and therefore you record and report a child's progress against the outcomes in a Child Observation. The principles of the EYLF are essentially our beliefs as early year’s educators, for example,

through your observation you are building reciprocal relationships, showing your commitment to reflective practices as you use what you observed to plan possible next steps etc. The practices are what you do as an educator. Through the learning story that you write about the experience of the child as you observed it (the observation), you are likely to refer to aspects of your teaching practice such as your responsiveness to the child (what you said or did), how the child has learned through play and any intentional teaching you did or plan to do as a result. You can show evidence of the principles and practices of the EYLF in your service simply by choosing ‘Teaching Made Easy, Child Observations’ for continuous documentation of learning.

The National Quality Standards Professional Learning Program have identified many myths and assumptions made by educators implementing the NQS and EYLF. Following is their information regarding the Myths and Realities around Child Observations.

More Myths and Realities can be found here

 

If this is an issue in your service I hope this information assists you in your professional dialogue regarding Child Observations.

 

Andrea :-)

 

Teaching Made Easy - Child Observations iPad App Tutorial

'How to' Tutorial for Teaching Made Easy

Well, I downloaded the most amazing app yesterday, called 'Explain Everything'. What a wonderful teaching tool. It's so cool to use that I was up 'til 2am working on the new 'How to' Tutorial for the 'Teaching Made Easy, Child Observations' iPad App. The tutorial also demonstrates a quick navigation of our Teaching Made Easy Print website and gives a little background on Teaching Made Easy, do you know when and how it all began? You'll have to watch to find out!

I look forward to uploading and sharing the tutorial with you later today. Be sure to come back and check it out.

It's a labour of love, Andrea x

Welcome to our new Teaching Made Easy Blogger Page

WELCOME!

WELCOME to our very first Teaching Made Easy blog space. I am very, very excited. This is a place to talk about 'Teaching Made Easy' resources, our NEW Child Observations iPad app, the popular 'EYLF Made Easy' programming and planning package and over 100 essential preschool/primary resources that can be downloaded on our subscription site at www.teachingmadeeasy.com.au

I will use this page to notify our subscribers and users of updates and new resources and to request your feedback and suggestions in relation to these. I have added a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page for users of our 'Teaching Made Easy, Child Observations' app, I am finding this more and more necessary to save both your sanity and mine! In honesty, I am enjoying a stronger connection with many of our customers and I love the conversations and excited feedback I have received when chatting to some of you on the phone, however, writing answers to the same questions on the facebook page over and over would drive anybody a little crazy; especially when sometimes I have answered the same question further up the page on the same post!!

I will be posting a 'how to' tutorial to talk you through some basic functions of the iPad app and to provide a simple navigation tour of our website.

This blog is also a place for general discussions about current trends in education, a place to share your concerns and also to share the wonderful teaching and learning that I know occurs in your educational sites and services.

Please add your email address to be notified of new posts. I look forward to regularly 'blogging' with you all!