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Makerspace Project Videos. Keyboard Shortcuts. Co-Teaching. Book Fairs. Rubrics. Book Reading Contest. S.O.S. for Information Literacy. Symbaloo. Writing Paragraphs. MakerSpace Project Ideas. Fiction vs. Nonfiction. Conflict Resolution. Parenting . education . marriage . food. March 30, 2014 This post is part of my series on How to Shape Children’s Behavior.

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“Say sorry to your brother.” “But he’s the one who–” “Say it!” You insist, an edge of warning in your voice. He huffs, rolls his eyes to the side and says flatly, “Sorry.” “Say it like you mean it,” you demand. “Sorrrrry,” he repeats, dragging out the word slowly with bulging eyes and dripping insincerity. You sigh in defeat and turn to #2, “Now tell him you forgive him.” “But he doesn’t even mean it!” “Just say it!” “iforgiveyou…” he mutters, looking down to the side dejectedly.

“Now be nice to each other.” Harumphy silence. This scenario might sound all too familiar– if not from your experiences as a parent, then at least your own experiences as a child. But what alternative do you have? Actually, you can. I’m sorry for…This is wrong because…In the future, I will… Will you forgive me? It made a lot of sense. 1) I’m sorry for…: Be specific. Now let’s practice using positive language.

Wrong: In the future, I won’t cut.

Procedures

Log In. Photo When I was in high school, I earned A’s in all my math classes — until I took calculus.

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In algebra and geometry, I could coast on memorizing formulas, but now I had to think for myself. It was disastrous, culminating in my getting a charity “C,” and I barely passed my college calculus class. The reason, I was convinced, was that I didn’t have a math mind. I have avoided the subject ever since. It turns out that I got it wrong. I’m not the only person convinced that he can’t like math.

This fatalistic equation can be altered. Consider these examples from three recent studies:

Curriculum

Rocks and Minerals. How to Turn Rubric Scores into Grades. I have written several posts about the different types of rubrics—especially my favorite, the single-point rubric—and over time, many teachers have asked me about the most effective way to convert the information on these rubrics into points.

How to Turn Rubric Scores into Grades

Even if you are moving toward a no grades classroom, as a growing number of educators are, you may still be required to supply points or letter grades for student assignments. Despite the title of this post, all I can really offer here is a description of my own process. It has been refined over years of trial and error, and the only evidence I have to back up its effectiveness is that in over 10 years of teaching middle school and college, I can only recall one or two times when a student or parent challenged a grade I gave based on a rubric.

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Blackboard Quiz Generator Documentation. This tool was developed to help you create quizzes for Blackboard.

Blackboard Quiz Generator Documentation

It allows you to type up the quiz offline in a program like Word or Notepad and not have to go through the trouble of making long quizzes via the Blackboard web interface. Simply type or paste your quiz in the text area and click the Create Quiz button. This will produce a zip file that you can import into the Pool Manager in Blackboard.

The CSI Blackboard Quiz Generator is available for the public to use free of charge. Please note that CSI transitioned from Blackboard to Canvas in 2016 and the Quiz Generator is no longer being updated.

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Free Stuff. Select any item in the list below.

Free Stuff

Click to follow link or download item. Handouts Presentations. Conversor do YouTube para MP3, MP4. GAfE. Hyperdocs. Citing Sources. Library Helpers. Animal Research Using a Database. I wanted my 2nd graders to start using a database and I have a subscription to World Book Online, which is a great tool, so I came up with this lesson.

Animal Research Using a Database

I use a lot of task cards in the library.

Book Classification Helps

Library k 12 03202014. 493041168C4723A7FA2FB025CC57E13D.googledriveschoologyguide. Share a Puzzle. How To Create Continuity Throughout Your K-2 Literacy Block With Skill Continuums - Learning at the Primary Pond. Let’s compare two scenarios – each one takes place in a first grade classroom, during the literacy block: Teacher A’s Classroom: Teacher A teaches a whole-group lesson on inferring character traits, using a familiar readaloud.Teacher A meets with a guided reading group.

How To Create Continuity Throughout Your K-2 Literacy Block With Skill Continuums - Learning at the Primary Pond

The focus strategy is reading in smooth, fluent phrases.Teach A meets with another guided reading group.

Videos for teaching

Homeschool World - News - Narration. Library Media Tech Talk: Are We Future Ready Librarians? This week I had a wonderful opportunity to present to my teacher librarian friends on a TL Virtual Cafe webinar.

Library Media Tech Talk: Are We Future Ready Librarians?

I have to admit that I was both nervous and excited to speak to colleagues across the nation using this presentation format. The topic I was requested to present was Future Ready Librarians. To prepare, I researched the topic online. What Are Your "Favorite Things" For The Library And As An Librarian? The Reading Without Walls Challenge – Gene Luen Yang. So this crazy thing happened this past January.

The Reading Without Walls Challenge – Gene Luen Yang

The Library of Congress, Children’s Book Council, and Every Child A Reader appointed me the fifth National Ambassador of Young People’s Literature! Every National Ambassador picks a platform. Mine is Reading Without Walls. I want every kid — every reader, really — to explore the world through books. Books have played a vital role in getting me outside of my comfort zone.

How ‘Deprogramming’ Kids From How to ‘Do School’ Could Improve Learning. One day, Adam Holman decided he was fed up with trying to cram knowledge into the brains of the high school students he taught.

How ‘Deprogramming’ Kids From How to ‘Do School’ Could Improve Learning

They weren’t grasping the physics he was teaching at the level he knew they were capable of, so he decided to change up his teaching style. It wasn’t that his students didn’t care about achieving — he taught at high performing, affluent schools where students knew they needed high grades to get into good colleges. How ‘Deprogramming’ Kids From How to ‘Do School’ Could Improve Learning. Schema Maps - An Alternative to the KWL Chart - Adventures of a Schoolmarm. Activating schema, or prior knowledge, is the foundation to helping students understand what they are reading about any topic. One of the more popular graphic organizers to record students' prior knowledge on a topic is a KWL Chart or a KWL+ Chart.

I have used these charts many times to help my students record their thinking and learning about a new topic, but I've frequently run into a specific problem with them...What do you do when the kids think they know something, but as the teacher, you know it's totally wrong?! Do you correct the students right then? Top twenty principles. Being a School Librarian and Why I am Good at What I Do. I just started my 26th year as a school librarian. and lately, I have been reflecting on my work. I worked for 12 years with grades K-6 and the last 13 with grades 6-12. Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. Help Save The ENDANGERED From EXTINCTION! The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus Rare photo of the elusive tree octopus The Pacific Northwest tree octopus (Octopus paxarbolis) can be found in the temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula on the west coast of North America.

Over 100 Digital Tools and Apps To Share For The New School Year!

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Teacher Resources. We are grateful to all teachers, English teachers and literature professors from around the world who have taken up the challenge of teaching reading, writing, and critical thinking skills to the world's students. Please use the free resources at our website to awaken a life-long passion for literature and learning in your students. Tell your colleagues if you find them helpful. And thank you for choosing to teach! Pre-K Wordplay! Toddlers and children in pre-kindergarten have fun and build confidence playing with words.

Useful IdiomsA selection of popular idioms and their meaning, for students and English language learners.Poetry for the Well-Read StudentFifty great poems for middle school, high school, and beyond... American HistoryStudents will better understand historical context by reading works from authors who were there and shaped events of their day. A new look at orientation. AASL Forum, LM_NET, and other librarian ListServs were rife with orientation ideas this year; and all those great ideas got me thinking about changing up my orientation lessons. My usual tack is to use a scavenger hunt that asks questions such as: “How many pages are in the book 13 Reasons Why?” Five Reasons Why Teachers Should Write About Their Practice. Differentiated Instruction: Resource Roundup. Understanding Differentiated Instruction.

Banned Books Week

How to customize YouCanBook.me to replace Google Calendar Appointment slots – Jack Dougherty. Updated on March 23, 2016: Here’s the new link to request an education account, which no longer appears to be automatic for users who log in with an .edu email address: Updated on February 26, 2015: The friendly folks at YouCanBook.Me tell me that the “On Duty” feature (which displays my office hours, as described below) now requires a paid premium-level subscription OR a free non-profit account. Tommy Thumbs. Evaluating Sources - Use the C.R.A.P. Test! — Mercer University Libraries. C.R.A.P. Test Currency: Is the information recent enough for your topic/field of research? Was it published in the last __ years or around the time of an original event? Chester Comix - SAVE UP TO 54% for Homeschoolers - Homeschool Buyers Co-op. Bring History Alive with Chester the Crab! Sit back and enjoy the fun as hat-wearing Chester the Crab takes your child on a colorful and witty romp through U.S. history in these graphic novels from the creative pen of Bentley Boyd.

10 MUST Read Books for Teachers - The Applicious Teacher. BuiLD YouR WiLD SeLF. Imogene's Antlers by David Small. Writing books for children & follow-up activities for teachers. A visual documentation of America in our time. Library Games: Resources for FUNbrarians! 5 Perfect Plants for the Classroom – Really Good Teachers. Spider plants? Ferns? Which plants are best for the classroom? Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Shelf Elf News: Lesson Plans: 8/25/16 - 8/31/16. The Techie Teacher: 5 Techie Ideas for Lesson Closure. Closure is one of the most important components to a quality lesson. It is also the one lesson component that many of us tend to leave out since we are constantly racing the clock.

How to Run a Library Volunteer Program that Students Love. Dartmout Middle school students Payton and Aidan delete and recatalog old reference books. For The Love Of Reading - Debbie Ridpath Ohi (Twitter: @inkyelbows)

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5 Steps to Subject-based Library Classification. SteedReads - Hands Go Up storytime song.m4v - Detail. Hands Go Up storytime song. Best Free Reference Web Sites 2015 17th Annual List RUSA Emerging Technologies Section (ETS) Welcome to the seventeenth annual “Best Free Reference Websites” list. It is hard to believe that this project has been around since the late 1990’s.

In 1998, the Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of RUSA appointed an ad hoc task force to develop a method of recognizing outstanding reference websites. The task force became a formal committee at the 2001 ALA Annual Conference, and is appropriately named the MARS Best Free Reference Websites Committee. Best Websites for Teaching & Learning. 5 Books That Teach Kids What It Means to Be a Kind Person. Cb copyright. Library Shelfie Orientation. Color Code and Organize Your Google Drive - Ladybug's Teacher Files. My favorite Children’s Picture Books. The Learning Backpack: About. Model Curriculum » Pennsylvania School Librarians Association. Doug Johnson Website - Articles. Here is a video introducing Biblionasium. I'm interested in comparing it to… Free School Library Rules Resources - Elementary Librarian. 35 ways to introduce your lesson topic.

HCA Library - Library. 23 ways to create a non-reading school – Suffolk Libraries. PPT Animation Trick: Making Objects Appear and Disappear On-Click with Animations. 5 Ways to Advocate without Being in Your Face. Bitsy Griffin, Librarian. ON LIBRARIES: ESSA and You – Hilda K. Weisburg. How to Run a Library Volunteer Program that Students Love. Simplify Your Life With an All-in-One Teacher Organizer. Book Donation Application : Kids Need To Read – Giving Children's Books to Libraries in Need.

Freebie friday and good character bingo - More Than a Worksheet. Problem Solving Fun for Kids- Busy Water App - STEM Activities for Kids. How to (Easily!) Integrate Science Into Reading and Writing. Model Curriculum » Pennsylvania School Librarians Association.

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