2024VSTE Annual Conference

Come be inspired by innovative lesson ideas for elementary aged students utilizing a iPads within the curriculum and new SOLs. We will give many examples and tools of how students can ?justify? their answers using their iPads! You?ll walk away with ideas on how to use iPads as a tool to transform and innovate lessons as well as how to engage students with simple lesson tweaks! All ideas will be related to the free Apple Apps as well as features already on the iPad itself. No subscriptions or paid apps required! Come be inspired to transform your lessons, get your students justifying their answers and walk away with ideas to use tomorrow!

This session will highlight success stories from a classroom partnership between the instructional technology coach and the classroom support specialist in a 4th grade classroom. The collaboration illustrates students thriving in challenging situations such as national competition entries.

Considering bringing robotics into your classroom? This is your year! Join this Robot Open House as we venture through the full school day, getting hands-on robotics and programming in every subject. Bring all of your biggest questions, from academic integration to budget concerns and everything in between. Leave this session with new confidence and hands-on experience with robotics. Plus a toolkit of concrete ideas and materials from real teachers around the world, ready to use in your classroom on day one and beyond!

This presentation provides a synthesis of emerging trends, technologies, and strategies for designing, developing, and implementing curricular and instructional goals to optimize learning for multilingual students in K-12 education, particularly in STEM subjects. Attendees will learn about emerging technological tools and approaches that have the potential to inform their teaching practices and instructional strategies.