Brittany Miller

Teachers are tasked with effectively balancing a standards-based curriculum with students' individual needs. Some strategies that can be used for balancing standards and individual needs are differentiated instruction to meet the needs of individual students, formative assessments to help teachers regularly monitor students’ understanding and progress, and flexible grouping based on students’ understanding of the current topic or lesson.  Several tools can be used for balancing standards and individual needs such as learning management systems (LMS) like Google Classroom or Canvas, educational software such as Khan Academy or IXL, and personalized learning systems, “or computer-based instructional and management programs, that (1) assess individual student learning needs using complex algorithms and collections of data across students and (2) provide a customized instructional experience matched to each student, often via software offered on mobile computing devices” (Hughes & ...

My name is Brittany Miller and I live in Milton, FL. Milton is in the "Panhandle", which is northwest Florida. I am 30 minutes from Pensacola and 30 minutes from Navarre. I have been teaching for ten years and two of those years have been in the virtual setting, which is where I teach now. I am a special education teacher, but have taught health and science in previous years. The types of technology that I enjoy using are two monitors, Nearpod, and YouTube.  I enjoy using two monitors because it helps in having multiple tabs open, especially when teaching a virtual class. I enjoy using Nearpod because it allows the students and teachers to interact during lessons in real-time and has lots of premade lessons available for teacher use. I enjoy using YouTube when teaching because it is very relevant to today's students and can be used to reinforce skills and make a mundane lesson enjoyable. I also like to play music or a short video at the beginning of my class and allow the...