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What are best teaching practices? How can you differentiate to meet the needs of your students? Answers to these questions and others can be found at The Literacy Circle. Join the Literacy Support Teachers in our never-ending exploration of language, reading, and writing. Elementary Literacy Support Teachers Do you want to become more reflective, refine your current teaching methods, set goals for teaching, and be part of a professional learning community? Graphic Organizers. The 2 Sisters. 5th Grade Teaching Blogs. Do You Do Data Binders? See How I Do & Freebie! One day, during collaboration, our principal told our team about how her son's teacher was using data binders with her class.
She told us all about them and the benefits of them . . . I think she knows that if she mentions it to me, I will go out and try it right away! (Sometimes I try to close my ears when people share an idea!) A week after our collaboration, I had 22 binders from my WONDERFUL parents, and was ready to rock 'n roll! I put a parent signature in the front of the binder.I put a parent letter in the binder to explain what the data binder is all about. I wrote each child's name on the spine labels and put them down the spine. After the binder is set up, I use a 3 hole punch to punch any assessment pieces (graded papers) and then print a graph to go along with it.Each Monday (or the first day of the week), after we pass out papers, the kids record their scores on their graphs.
I originally made my graphs with the number of items on a page. Fifth Grade Flock.
Baronreading / Status of the Class - Period 1. Vocabulary. Cooperative Grouping. Related Classroom Examples Guiding Cooperation Teacher turns to technology to guide cooperative learning in a blended fourth-fifth science class.
Collaborative Writing Middle school students polish skills for writing, reflection, and collaboration. 52 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers. Being an effective teacher largely boils down to being able to diagnose problems early, roll with changes, and straddle a line between being a ruler and being a leader.
Whether you’ve been in the industry for years or are just now studying education at an online university, these habits will help you focus your teaching and have a bigger impact on your students. Some are about attitude, while others are basic approaches to class structure, but they’re all helpful. Take a look: Habits for Communicating These habits will help you build better avenues of communication between you and your students. Build a student’s confidence: Low self-esteem is a problem for many students, which is why effective teachers work to build that confidence through reinforcement and encouragement. Habits for Building Relationships These tips will help you strengthen your relationships with your students. McREL Blog: Classroom Instruction that Works.
McREL has long maintained that technology, when used thoughtfully and intentionally, enhances good instruction.
But it’s not about the technology itself; it’s about technology working together with a well-designed lesson or project focused on clear learning targets and differentiated by student needs and learning styles. I just read a blog post by Krista Moroder, an educator in Wisconsin, and it really resonated with me. Krista’s reflections, posted at EdTechCoaching, help us remember that good teaching isn’t something new, created by modern technology tools. Many of us got into education because of great teachers in our own past. Technology can, however, make good instruction even better. With her permission, I've reposted Krista’s column below. -Howard Pitler. Finland Schools' Success Story: Lessons Shared At California Forum. STANFORD, Calif. -- Finland is this decade's shiny icon of classroom success, the repeat winner of top results in a global ranking of national school systems.
That's why academics, teachers and government officials gathered at Stanford University last week to talk about what makes the Scandinavian country's schools so good. And what lessons might Americans have learned at the Empowerment Through Learning in a Global World Conference, a gathering organized by Stanford and the Finnish Consulate? That the Finns emphasize equality, collaboration and a wellness-oriented public school system -- but that their standardized exams can be high-stakes, too. "A lot of our own experiences were initially American ideas," said Pasi Sahlberg, a Finnish education official and author of the new book "Finnish Lessons," who spoke at the conference. "I want to tell everyone that to make schools work, you have to run all the time," she said to The Huffington Post.
But few Finnish policies have stuck here. Melissajulian.wikispaces. Melissa Julian - educatorI'm an eLearning leader and classroom teacher and have set up this wiki as a space to share my ideas, resources and reflections as I integrate eLearning into the education context.
October 2011:Presentation at the ULearn11 Conference2nd December 2010: Time to reflect on how eLearning has evolved for me during 2010.23rd September 2010: Today my year 1-2 students became the teachers! They invited their parents along to learn about a range of eLearning tools that they use regularly in their learning. To ensure they presented what the adults wanted to learn, the parents added their requests/ideas to a wallwisher on our class Wiki. Workshops for Parents. Here's a brief account of what the students presented. Mister Norris.