Why You Should Avoid Sending Students To The Principal. Contrary to what many believe, the role of principal doesn’t include directly influencing behavior in your classroom.
It shouldn’t, anyway. Because the more personally involved your principal is, the harder it will be to manage your class. It seems counterintuitive. This chart can change your mindset and unlock new learning opportunities. Digital Pedagogy.
Response: Recover From Bad Days by Seeing 'Disasters as Opportunities' - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo. Creating Classrooms We Need: 8 Ways Into Inquiry Learning. If kids can access information from sources other than school, and if school is no longer the only place where information lives, what, then happens to the role of this institution?
Smithsonian Quests. Smithsonian Quests™ inspire students to explore their own ideas and interests online, in school, at home, and across the nation.
The quests connect and reward learners of different ages and in different regions as they learn through discovery and collaboration. Rewards include digital badges that students (and teachers) take with them for life! Tips and resources for supporting struggling readers SmartBlogs. The Common Core State Standards Initiative focuses on rigor and raising expectation in classrooms nationwide.
It calls for an increase in reading complexity for students of all ages. As principals and teachers work hard to ensure their curricula are standards aligned, are struggling readers at risk of being left behind? The 10th reading standard says that by the end of the year, students will read and comprehend texts at their respective grade level independently and proficiently. The first question to ask when familiarizing yourself with the standards: “What is grade level when it comes to reading?” This is a question that many special-education teachers and literacy coaches grapple with daily.
Anxious About Tests? Tips to Ease Angst. Big Ideas Teaching Strategies Flickr: ccarlstead As any parent or teacher knows, tests can create crippling anxiety in students–and anxious kids can perform below their true abilities.
But new research in cognitive science and psychology is giving us a clearer understanding of the link between stress and performance, and allowing experts to develop specific strategies for helping kids manage their fears. These potential solutions are reasonably simple, inexpensive and, as recent studies show, effective. Some work for a broad range of students, while others target specific groups.
HMH-howtoraiseacuriousreader. A Collection Of “The Best…” Lists On Writing. Graphic organizers.pdf. Take one sheet of paper and really get to know your pupils. A one-page profile is exactly what it says on the tin.
It's one page of information which has three questions. Response: Celebrating our Students' Good Writing - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo. {*style:<b> <i>(Note: This is the first post in a multi-part series on teaching writing) </i> </b>*}
Why “Googling It” Is Not Enough. Big Ideas Culture Teaching Strategies Thinkstock Has the Internet changed the way students conduct research?
Yes, and not always for the better, reports to a study released last week by the Pew Research Center, “How Teens Do Research in the Digital World.” According to a survey of more than 2,000 middle and high school teachers, “research” for today’s students means “Googling,” and as a result, doing research “has shifted from a relatively slow process of intellectual curiosity and discovery to a fast-paced, short-term exercise aimed at locating just enough information to complete an assignment.” While teachers in the survey acknowledge the benefits of the web for students—great depth and breadth of information, material presented in engaging multimedia formats, and the opportunity to become self-directed and self-reliant researchers—many of them express concern that easily-distracted students with short attention spans are not developing the skills required to do deep, original research.
Using digital tools to make a difference SmartBlogs. Quick question: If you wanted to make a difference in the world when you were a kid, how did you do it?
For me, “making a difference” meant setting up a lemonade stand at the end of the driveway and selling Dixie cups full of sweet goodness to raise money that I would send off to the causes that I cared about. And while I really enjoyed the entire process, I didn’t make significant change in the world. Response: Classroom Strategies to Foster a Growth Mindset - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo. 50 Useful Apps For Students With Reading Disabilities. Whether you’re the parent of a child with a reading disability or an educator that works with learning disabled students on a daily basis, you’re undoubtedly always looking for new tools to help these bright young kids meet their potential and work through their disability.
While there are numerous technologies out there that can help, perhaps one of the richest is the iPad, which offers dozens of applications designed to meet the needs of learning disabled kids and beginning readers alike. Here, we highlight just a few of the amazing apps out there that can help students with a reading disability improve their skills not only in reading, writing, and spelling, but also get a boost in confidence and learn to see school as a fun, engaging activity, not a struggle. Helpful Tools These tools are useful for both educators and students with reading disabilities alike, aiding in everything from looking up a correct spelling to reading text out loud.
Speak It! Fundamentals Reading Writing. 7 Ways to Transform Your Classroom. Background: This is a blog post I originally wrote for a presentation on Classroom 2.0 Live! It is based on some ideas sparked in another post, Transformative or just flashy educational tools? , which only had 6 suggestions, but David Warlick inspired the 7th in his comment. 7 Steps To Effective Feedback. Cc licensed image shared by flikr user HikingArtist.com Last week, our educoach chat (a twitter chat dedicated to instructional coaching and professional learning) focused on the topic of giving feedback.
We shared our own experiences giving and receiving feedback and reacted to articles from the most recent issue of Educational Leadership (September, 2012, Vol. 70, No.1). Feedback is a topic we delved into in depth this summer as part of our book discussion chat on John Hattie’s . Synthesizing more than 900 educational meta-analyses, researcher John Hattie has found that effective feedback is among the most powerful influences on how people learn. (John Hattie, , Educational Leadership September 2012, Vol. 70, No. 1) Feedback matters.
I’ve recently come to embrace the idea that great principals and great teachers have at least three important habits in common. They offer feedback effectively. Eight Ways to Use Video With English Language Learners. This blog was co-authored by Katie Hull Sypnieski. This post is excerpted from their new book, The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English Language Learners of All Levels. "I like the way you use videos with us -- you get us moving, talking, writing and speaking. The problem is you make us think too much. " -- "John," one of our English-Language Learner students We can think of far worse things a student might say to us, and John's comment demonstrates our perspective on using video with English-Language Learners (and, for that matter, with all students) -- research and our experience show that it can be a very effective learning tool, but it has to be used as an active one.
The word "active" comes from the Latin "actus," which means "a doing, a driving. " Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. 1. Response: Teaching Science By "Becoming A Learner" - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo. (Note: This is the third post in a four-part series on teaching science. Technology Integration for Math Engagement » Math Stations and Screencasting on the iPad. We started our math station activities today. Teachers' Expectations Can Influence How Students Perform : Shots - Health Blog. Rules Rethink. With the combination of knowing that educators in our own division are opening their classrooms to students tomorrow, and reading Joan Young’s post on expectations, it made me really think about this process that we go through every year.
There are still many educators that simply tell students the “rules” of the classroom, yet more teachers are talking about how students are helping develop these expectations and have “ownership” over the process. Response: Ways to Include Students in the Formative Assessment Process - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo. Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement. A while back, I was asked, "What engages students?
" Sure, I could respond, sharing anecdotes about what I believed to be engaging, but I thought it would be so much better to lob that question to my own eighth graders. 10 books to help boost young boys' reading. On Tuesday, the government announced its plan to get more children reading. Resources and Downloads for Differentiated Instruction.
The Power of the Positive Phone Call Home. When I first started teaching and was overwhelmed by the demands and complexity of the job, my survival strategy was simply to take all the advice that came my way and implement it. So when my wise mentor suggested that after the first day of school I call all of my second grader's parents, I did so. Goal: 12 Resources for Giving Constructive Feedback. Posted by Shelly Terrell on Saturday, January 23rd 2010 Part of the Goals 2010 Challenge Series, Goal 22 and the Cool Sites series.
Free Classroom Guides and Educational Downloads for 2012. The Teacher’s Survival Kit for Lesson Planning! Tips & 1000s of Free Lesson Plans. Posted by Shelly Terrell on Saturday, August 18th 2012 Goal 16: Plan An Engaging Lesson of The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators. It’s Not a Pipe: Teaching Kids to Read the Media. Personalization vs Differentiation vs Individualization. Have High Expectations? Provide High Support. Adam Saenz: From Jail to Harvard: Why Teachers Change the World. Coach G's Teaching Tips. Greece Athena Staff Blog. Object(ive) Writing: A Creative Exercise for the Composition Classroom. Education Update:Quality Feedback:Quality Feedback.