FUN Critical Thinking Activities For Students in Any Subject The experts on STAAR, such as the Texas Education Agency, the Lead4Ward team and Regional Service Centers tell us that there are some very specific things that we need to do, and other things we should let go of in order to prepare our students for the state assessment. In addition, these strategies can also deepen and broaden their knowledge. The following are ideas for activities that you can use in conjunction with our curriculum in order to help meet some of these criteria, as it is necessary to adjust our mindset from TAKS driven packets to STAAR rich conversations and activities. Talking Chips 1. Pair - Square - Share Informal Response ActivityTeacher poses a question to the classYes = StandNo = SitDepends = Sit and Raise Your Hand 3 Facts and a Fib This helps with distinguishing between multiple choice answers. 1. FACT or FIB Slam Down 1. Differentiation and Multiple Representations Pass and Play Menus Students work from a 2x2 or 3x3 grid in a tic-tac-toe format
Strategies for Helping Students Motivate Themselves Editor's Note: This piece was adapted from Building a Community of Self-Motivated Learners: Strategies to Help Students Thrive in School and Beyond by Larry Ferlazzo, available March 21, 2015 from Routledge. My previous post reviewed research on extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, and described the four qualities that have been identified as critical to helping students motivate themselves: autonomy, competence, relatedness, and relevance. In this post, I'll discuss practical classroom strategies to reinforce each of these four qualities. Autonomy Providing students with freedom of choice is one strategy for promoting learner autonomy. Some researchers, however, believe that a third option, cognitive choice, is a more effective way to promote longer-lasting student autonomy. Competence Feedback, done well, is ranked by education researcher John Hattie as number 10 out of 150 influences on student achievement. But how do you handle providing critical feedback to students when it's necessary?
Soaring Through Second Grade: My Daily 5-ish I'm so excited to share a quick overview of my version of Daily 5{ish} with you today! It's taken me awhile because {I think} I've finally figured out (and it's only the end of the year, right), what works for me and my kids {right now!}. It's been an ever changing system, as I tweaked and figured out with the kids what works best, what keeps the flow going, and is simple for us all to manage! I start our reading block off with a fluency read. Then we head off to our rotations... I should also tell you, I don't (usually) see all of the groups in one day. Each station has "Must Dos" and "May Dos". The teacher table is where our guided reading groups happen. (I made them pose for this picture- that's what it should look like. Read to self is where the kids get to read independently. Listen & word word are combined because I just couldn't fit it all in. (Using iPads for listening!) Here's a picture of us ALL on task! I'd love to hear about your reading block!
6 Scaffolding Strategies to Use With Your Students What's the opposite of scaffolding a lesson? It would be saying to students something like, "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, no scaffolding -- just left blowing in the wind. 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 then providing a tool, or structure, with each chunk. Simply put, scaffolding is what you do first with kids, then for those students who are still struggling, you may need to differentiate by modifying an assignment and/or making accommodations for a student (for example, choose more accessible text and/or assign an alternative project). Scaffolding and differentiation do have something in common though. 1. How many of us say that we learn best by seeing something rather than hearing about it? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Trying Something New
Skolcoacherna Science Games for 1st Grade & 2nd Grade . Science . Education Try some of these free science games for grades 1 and 2 featuring PBS KIDS characters to boost your child’s early development of science skills and interest in science. Sid the Science Kid: Super Fab Lab Help Sid, May, Gabriela and Gerald play a series of games all about weather, temperature and more!Muscle Memory Learn how to follow directions by clicking on the body part that Sid’s dad tells you to move.Vegetable Patterns Use the vegetables in the baskets to complete the pattern of vegetables on the counter.Super Duper Antibodies! Help Sid use antibodies to fight off the flu virus.I want to be a Scientist! Curious George: The Cat in the Hat: Dinosaur Train: Hungry Hungry herbivore Guide Tank the Triceratops to find yummy plants to eat while keeping him safe with his herd! Sesame Street: A Twiddlebug Tool Adventure Use different tools to help Timmy the bug get home. Arthur: FETCH! Water We Doing? Caillou: Caillou the Paleontologist Help Caillou uncover and rebuild a dinosaur skeleton.
Stop The False Generalizations About Personalized Learning In March, Tom Loveless, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, took an outdated swipe at the logic behind moving toward a student-centered learning system. He in essence suggested that because the curriculum wars have been decided more or less empirically, that people bent on disrupting the classroom and the factory-model education system were doing so under faulty assumptions about how students learn. In his piece, he attacked the logic of teaching around multiple intelligences and pointed to some of the research that shows that tailoring learning opportunities to common assumptions around visual, auditory, and other such supposed learning styles are not good ways of teaching different students. Today’s factory-model education system, which was built to standardize the way we teach, falls short in educating successfully each child for the simple reason that just because two children are the same age, it does not mean they learn at the same pace or should follow the same pathway.
”Ta in en coach – och släpp kontrollbehovet” De är båda lärare i botten, men för ett antal år sedan upplevde de att de kört fast i sin lärarroll. Grundskoleläraren Anna-Karin Arenius kände sig ensam i klassrummet och hade svårt att sätta upp egna mål för sin undervisning. Gymnasieläraren Helena Isakson ville bli bättre på att stötta sina elever att nå målen. Deras lösning blev en coachutbildning. – Många ekonomiska ämnen handlar om entreprenörskap och här kände jag att jag saknade något som lärare. Jag hade ett kontrollbehov och behövde lära mig att släppa taget och förlita mig på att eleverna kan hitta sina egna lösningar och svar, säger Helena Isakson, som tidigare var biträdande rektor och gymnasielärare i ekonomiska ämnen. Nu driver de tillsammans Skolcoacherna, som ansvarar för individuell coachning i Skolverkets treårsprojekt ”Handledning för lärande”. – Det övergripande målet för coachning är alltid högre elevresultat, men det går att använda till så mycket i skolan. Hur hjälper ni dem som tappat lusten? Källa: Skolcoacherna
Behavior Management and Self Regulation - Take... by Teaching in Progress BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT Students are stressed more than ever. Sometimes that stress is manifested in the form of impulsive outbursts, anger, meltdowns, crying, yelling, arguing, or other types of emotional release. Kids don't always know what to do with all of that strong emotion and teachers and parents can not always drop everything to help. Kids must learn to recognize and regulate their own emotions, particularly strong emotions. This file contains directions and printables to create a behavior management area "Take A Break" station which encourages children to manage and regulate their own emotions and behavior. 1. You might also like: Bubblegum Praise and Goal Setting Classroom Procedures: Journal Pages, Prompts, and Minibook behavior, behavior clip chart, behavior management, behavior alternatives, behavior system, behavior intervention, behavior strategies, behavior chart, classroom management
Inre motivation positiv för elevers utveckling och lärande: Venue: Lärarutbildning: Linköpings universitet Tomas Jungert, Linköpings universitet Har yttre belöningar (exempelvis guldstjärnor i kanten av skrivboken) en negativ inverkan på elevers inre motivation? Minskar intresset för människor att engagera sig i eller prestera väl i en uppgift när yttre belöningar erbjuds? Flera meta-analyser har visat att så är fallet. n av de mest utmanande och kritiska uppgifterna i undervisningssituationer är att motivera elever. Yttre motivation är instrumentell till sin natur och refererar till att elever engagerar sig i en skoluppgift på grund av yttre krav eller för att nå ett yttre resultat, såsom ett högt betyg eller att undvika hot om att bli bestraffad, exempelvis att få underkänt. Self-determination theory (SDT) är en teori som såväl teoretiskt som praktiskt belyser hur lärare kan stödja elever för att öka deras inre motivation (Deci & Ryan, 2000). Inre motivation Olika grader av motivation Internalisering och grundläggande behov Att tillgodose de grundläggande behoven Avslutningsvis Referenser
Behavior Management in the Classroom! Behavior Management Tips for New Teachers! Behavior Management is a challenge that every new teacher faces. Unfortunately, teachers cannot be 100% prepared on how to effectively manage an entire classroom in their credential program alone. It is something that we have to put into practice and figure out as we go! It involves trial and error, and every teacher has to discover what works for them in their own classroom. So often first year teachers are overwhelmed and feel unprepared for managing classroom behavior. So for elementary teachers that would like a little extra guidance, here are my various tips and methods for maintaining control of the classroom. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 13. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 14. Those are my quick tips for first year teachers or teachers who need a little extra with behavior management in the elementary classroom.
Läraren är ingen trollkarl I samhället finns en tilltagande anda att personer med någon form av makt finns till för åtgärda livets friktion. Journalistiken, politiken och den offentliga diskursen opererar helt utifrån denna föreställning. Det har lett till många humana reformer, men i skoldebatten blir en sådan instinkt närmast vilseledande, eftersom det inte går att ställa någon till svars för hur hjärnans kognitiva funktioner är beskaffade. Jag gick in på OECD:s hemsida och gjorde matematikövningarna från Pisatestet. Var och en inser att snickaren blir skickligare endast av att snickra med sina egna händer, att mästaren förevisar och instruerar gesällen, men han snickrar inte åt honom. Så komplicerat kan det inte vara. All kunskap och inlärning är praktisk. Det gör förstås läroböckernas kvalitet avgörande. Det är böckerna man till sist måste ner i om man ska lära sig något teoretiskt. Att människor har rätt till kunskap betyder att ingen har rätt att hindra någon från att studera.
Building Student Responsibility: Classroom Jobs This week has been full of meetings and I am absolutely wiped out! There is still a lot to be done in my classroom, but I am anxious to share my newest addition: Classroom Jobs (in chevron, of course!): I am in love with these guys! This year, I am really looking forward to having each student have a job and stay responsible for it for around two weeks. In the past, I would switch jobs every week and I felt that was a bit too fast for my students. In the past, I have also only had a few jobs and only a few kids helping each week. Here's the finished board on the side whiteboard in my class: You can see number magnets to represent my students. Now, every two weeks, I can switch magnets to their new jobs-- there are 32 possible jobs, but I am only going to be using 22, so there will be a few kids "On Vacation" each week. Here is the list of the jobs, as well as the three choices of headers: I am very excited about this system, which brings me to how each student will choose a job.
7 Ways to Increase Student Engagement in the Classroom Infographic K12 Infographics Why do we want learners of all ages to be engaged during instruction? Because involved students learn more efficiently and are more successful at remembering what they learned. In addition, students who are engaged in learning are more likely to become passionate about learning in general. Student engagement is one byproduct of effective instruction that has major pay offs. Do you have any other suggestions? Via: www.readinghorizons.com Embed This Education Infographic on your Site or Blog!