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Instructional scaffolding to improve learning. 9780941355728ch1.pdf. Denver Fellow Resources. Mrs. Lockett on Pinterest. Newsletters / Math Empowers Newsletters. Blogs and LInks. Fake Concert Ticket Generator. Three Ways Student Data Can Inform Your Teaching. The job of a teacher is to be faithful to authentic student learning. Currently, our profession is fixated on results from one test, from one day, given near the end of the school year.

And, yes, that is data that can be useful, however, we teachers spend the entire year collecting all sorts of immediate and valuable information about students that informs and influences how we teach, as well as where and what we review, re-adjust, and re-teach. So when we speak about student data, here's how teachers collect it and some of the ways we use it. #1 From the Classroom Formative Assessments Checking for understanding with low-stakes assessments are really the most important and useful of student data.

Observations The beauty of having a constructivist, student-directed classroom? Projects, Essays, Exams Summative assessments, such as a literary analysis essay or an end-of-unit science exam, allow us to measure the growth of individual and whole-group learning. . #2 From Cumulative Files. Deeper Learning: Why Cross-Curricular Teaching is Essential. It is time that teachers and administrators realize that public education has reached a dam in the river. We have gone about as far as we can go with isolated instruction and learning. While it may have served the purpose for the older generations, it does not meet the deeper learning needs of students today and tomorrow. Fortunately, deeper learning can be accelerated by consolidating teacher efforts and combining relevant contents, in effect, opening new spillways of knowledge.

Deep learning is like taking a long drought from a well of knowledge as opposed to only sipping from many different wells. Deep learning implies that students will follow a particular stream of inquiry to the headwaters, rather than simply sampling all the possible streams. Teachers know all too well the outside forces that pressure them to limit how deeply their students can drink from any single well.

Requirements 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Cross-Curricular Teams Aligned Cooperative Conceptual Aligned Collaboration. Anchor Charts as an Effective Teacher/Student Tool. Special Education: Promoting More Inclusion at Your School | Edutopia. It is all too rare for discussions of school culture and climate and SEL to focus explicitly on students with disabilities. A shining exception is the Inclusive Schools Climate Initiative (ISCI), a pilot project at Rutgers University, developed through a partnership with the Office of Special Education Programs at the NJ Department of Education.

Eighteen schools are involved in the pilot project, and each one carries out an inclusion-focused assessment of school climate, the formulation of an ISCI leadership team, and the development and implementation of a School Climate Improvement Plan (SCIP). SCIP's are unique to each school and include goals and a range of activities that are designed to promote changes or to sustain aspects of school climate that best support inclusion.

I am pleased to be able to share what I have learned through conversations with Dr. Lerman, who is the director of ISCI. Maurice Elias: Why was it important to develop inclusive schools? Dr. Here are other ideas: Teaching Students with Special Needs: Advice for Teachers. Page 1 of 2 It is inevitable that you will have the opportunity (and pleasure) of working with special needs students in your classroom. You may need to make accommodations for some and modifications for others. Providing for the needs of special education students will certainly be one of your greatest challenges as a professional educator. Consider these tips and strategies. Jabberwocky When working with special needs students, two terms you are sure to encounter are accommodation and modification.

Students with Learning Disabilities Learning disabled students are those who demonstrate a significant discrepancy, which is not the result of some other handicap, between academic achievement and intellectual abilities in one or more of the areas of oral expression, listening comprehension, written expression, basic reading skills, reading comprehension, mathematical calculation, mathematics reasoning, or spelling. Has poor auditory memory—both short term and long term. It's Elementary. 6 Steps to Successful Co-Teaching. By Natalie Marston, elementary special educator, Charles County, Maryland Found In: teaching strategies Are you wondering how you can co-teach effectively and make it a successful year for both teachers and students?

As co-teachers - a regular and a special education teacher - you will plan lessons and teach a subject together to a class of special and regular education students. Your co-teaching will support academic diversity in the regular classroom and provide all students with access to the county and state curriculum. Co-teaching can be a wonderful experience when planning and communication are in place beginning day one.

Here are six steps I've found very helpful when preparing for a co-teaching experience. 1. The first step that you (the regular classroom teacher and the special education teacher) need to take is to establish a relationship -- even before the students enter the building. 2. How do you manage behaviors? 3. 4. 5. Consider the following items in your plan of action: 6. Teaching With a Mountain View: Anchor Chart Tips & Tricks. It's no secret that I have a "thing" for anchor charts. My readers know it, my students know it, my colleagues know it, my husband knows it...

I can't help it--they have changed my classroom! They have made my walls interactive instead of stagnant. I just LOVE anchor charts. I remember seeing anchor charts begin to pop up on Pinterest and looking at mine in shame. 1) Scour Pinterest for Ideas: Nobody says that all of your anchor charts have to be your 100% original creation, and there are a TON of anchor charts out there already, and more are added every day as teachers create them for their classrooms. 2) Create them WITH your class: Remember in tip number one how I said I don't usually find one that's perfect for my class? *REMEMBER: The purpose of anchor charts is to anchor the learning happening in YOUR classroom. 3) Plan Ahead: Just because I make the charts with my class certainly doesn't mean I don't have a plan of action before I start. 5) Invest in some Mr.

Pencils of Promise. Math Practice Standards - Debbie Waggoner. Standards for Mathematical Practices Math Practice Standards Posters Secondary full page posters for each of the K-12 math practice standards written in language for secondary grades from the Jordan School district in Utah Math Practice Standards Posters grade 6 full page posters for each of the K-12 math practice standards written in language for grade 6 from the Jordan School district in Utah Math Practice Standards Posters grades 4-5 full page posters for each of the K-12 math practice standards written in language for 4th & 5th grades - from the Jordan School district in Utah Math Practice Standards Posters grades 2-3 full page posters for each of the K-12 math practice standards written in language for 2nd & 3rd grades - from the Jordan School district in Utah Math Practice Standards Posters grades K-1 full page posters for each of the K-12 math practice standards written in language for Kindergarten & 1st grade - from the Jordan School district in Utah Math Practice standards Look fors...

PBS Teachers (pbsteachers) WeAreTeachers - Get Lesson Plans - Teacher Grants - Teaching Resources and More. National Science Teachers Association. 6 Scaffolding Strategies to Use With Your Students. What’s the opposite of scaffolding a lesson?

Saying to students, “Read this nine-page science article, write a detailed essay on the topic it explores, and turn it in by Wednesday.” Yikes! No safety net, no parachute—they’re just left to their own devices. Let’s start by agreeing that scaffolding a lesson and differentiating instruction are two different things. Scaffolding is breaking up the learning into chunks and providing a tool, or structure, with each chunk. When scaffolding reading, for example, you might preview the text and discuss key vocabulary, or chunk the text and then read and discuss as you go.

With differentiation, you might give a child an entirely different piece of text to read, or shorten the text or alter it, or modify the writing assignment that follows. Simply put, scaffolding is what you do first with kids. Scaffolding and differentiation do have something in common, though. So let’s get to some scaffolding strategies you may or may not have tried yet. 1. 2. 3.

Math in Real Life Series. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The Digital Divide: Resource Roundup. Digital Access and Equity Is Your School #FutureReady? By Suzie Boss (2014) Two recent events have the potential to help schools nationwide get up to speed when it comes to internet access and equity. How Teachers Use Technology: The Latest Research, by Mary Beth Hertz (2013) Hertz considers the implications of a study by Pew Research about how teachers are using technology at home and in their classrooms and what it can tell us about the digital divide. Also consider reading her earlier post from 2011, "A New Understanding of the Digital Divide," for a discussion of earlier studies and what they said about differences in types of access among groups of students. Back to Top Supporting All Digital Learners Why Reading Mattters: An Interview With a School Leader, by Bob Lenz (2014) An instructional development director from a charter schools network in the San Francisco area shares his plan for acquiring 300 donated digital reading devices for students.

International Comparisons. Strategies for Successful Co-Teaching. All Things Considered Other topics to discuss with your co-teacher before the first school bell rings: • When is our common planning time? • Should we set aside other time (early-morning coffee, lunchtime walks) for additional planning? • What are your pet peeves? • How will we introduce ourselves to the students? • How will we arrange the classroom for flexible grouping? • What is our grading policy? • How will we evaluate our own co-teaching practice? Fill in the blank: The marriage between co-teachers is like ______. For the past 20 years, I have worked with schools on their co-teaching initiatives. No matter co-teachers’ respective expertise, some relationships work smoothly, while others are rocky. Choose a Model Early The beginning of the school year, or even prior to the start of school, is the key time to decide which co-teaching models you want to use. The Lead and Support Model works well when a specialist is assigned to co-teach with multiple classroom teachers.

Zaption - Interact & Learn with Video Lessons. Kahoot! | Game-based blended learning & classroom response system. Mrs. Lockett on Pinterest. Math Academic Support Instructor. Grades 4-8 Links - Eric Milou. Grades K-3 Links - Eric Milou. National Library of Virtual Manipulatives. Melissa N. Lockett. Wonderopolis | Where the Wonders of Learning Never Cease. Newsela | Nonfiction Literacy and Current Events. Illuminations. Illustrative Mathematics.

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