soulpancake So what? You failed your finals. You gained some weight. So what? You’re single again. You lost your job. Design Thinking: Lessons for the Classroom The Design Thinking Process While design thinking has its roots in the innovation/design sector, the process itself can be used anywhere. Indeed, it is a great tool for teaching 21st century skills, as participants must solve problems by finding and sorting through information, collaborating with others, and iterating their solutions based on real world, authentic experience and feedback. (It is also a great tool to develop and run a school, but that's a different post for a different day.) I had the good fortune to participate in a collaborative workshop at the Big Ideas Fest, where we practiced design thinking with about 12 other educators over a three-day period. The idea was to give us a first-hand experience with design thinking, and to demonstrate how the model could work within the classroom.
IB Spanish B Teaching Materials This IB Spanish B Materials page contains a collection authentic teaching materials and resources for the IB Spanish B curriculum. You will also find ideas and materials for all Spanish B assessments: Paper 1, Paper 2, Written Assignment & Oral Assessments (Interactive Oral and Individual Oral/IA). IB Spanish B Specific Materials: Approaches to Learning Poster in Spanish ATLs / IB Approaches to Learning poster in Spanish. Here is an article on how to print full size posters for your classroom. Design Thinking for Educators Workshop Schedule Weekly assignments, posted on Monday mornings, can be done at any time during the week. Each Monday we will post a new assignment. Participants will use Edutopia.org and a Ning site to complete the assignments at any time during the week. The workshop exercises are designed to take roughly 2-5 hours/week. Registrants will receive a weekly email which covers that week's assignment with all the necessary links to resources.
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Using dictation In fact, it hardly seems to merit a mention in most of the introductory texts for ELT trainees. Is it really as outdated and uncommunicative as it first appears? Dictation has numerous uses in the ELT classroom, often involving very little preparation and a lot of creativity and interest. Used imaginatively, it can be an effective tool for working on accuracy and fluency in all four skills. In this article I will answer the following questions and at the same time provide some practical ideas for activities. What is dictation? How To Create An Effective Classroom Website No doubt you have already have a classroom website or will be required to create one in the very near future. Virtually every classroom teacher around the globe is being caught up in the development of this essential communication tool. Most of the early birds to this challenge went out and used providers such as Teacher Web. Now, more and more districts are implementing a provider that the entire district will use that provides continuity and uniformity. This obviously will have its benefits for staff development but may stifle creativity. I started about 8 years ago with a variety of services, but about two years ago my district settled on one software host for us all to use.
Winchester Thurston School That's a Really Good Question!"Is slime a liquid or a solid?" "How did Morewood Avenue get its name?" "Who is the top goal scorer in the NHL and what factors should be considered?" Students in this elective will use the internet and other resources to find answers to some really good questions. Anyone in the Middle School community can submit a question, and the elective team will go to work. Category: Authentic Texts - The Authentic Spanish Teacher AP THEME: Beauty and AestheticsCONTEXT: Visual and Performing ArtsDuring a unit on Entertainment and Media in Level 2, I was striving to make vocabulary assessment more meaningful (I didn't want to just give them a rote memorization quiz). I thought about how they would use the vocabulary, adjectives to describe movies, in real life, and decided the most authentic use of this set of vocabulary would be done when looking at movies and which movies you would like to see/not see after reading about the movie. I developed an Interpretive Reading activity for students using movie synopses. The vocabulary is given to them, but they have to use a variety of the vocabulary correctly in context to talk about their thoughts on the movies. After students completed the activity we watched the trailers to each of the movies - we did this after and not before because I wanted students to base their vocabulary use on what they were reading, not viewing. Download File