The Princess and the Golden Shoes - Lesson Plan Back to the Cinderella Stories Page The Princess and the Golden Shoes A Scottish Cinderella Variant Lesson Plan for Elementary, Intermediate, Junior high by Jean D. Objectives Students will listen and respond to Scottish music locate Scotland and identify a few characteristics of the country read and/or listen to the Scottish tale, "The Princess and the Golden Shoes" interact with the text using a variety of strategies create graphic responses to the characters create a newspaper/magazine/journal which reports on various episodes create names for the characters engage in post-reading values-clarification activities/writing prompts dramatize the story by making a play Note to teacher: there are more activities below than you will want to use. Materials needed A copy of The Princess and the Golden Shoes, a Scottish Tale, available from the Tales of Wonder site, which provides seven other tales from Scotland. Paper, pencil, pen for creating a script. Pre-reading strategies Options 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Blogging in The Classroom: How to Get Started It’s no secret that blogging is more than just a hobby. For many people around the world, it’s also a career, but could it be even more than that? What about blogging in the classroom, is that an option? In a word? As bloggers, we grow our knowledge and learn new things each and every day. Blogging stretches all kinds of mental muscles, and it affords limitless opportunities to expand your knowledge. It’s incredible how much potential blogging has as a tool for education, so teachers, let’s find out how to get this into your classrooms. Here’s what we’ll discuss today: Ways to bring blogging into your classroom and daily lesson plansThe litany of benefits blogging brings to educationDeciding the purpose and goals of your blogSetting up your classroom’s blogEasy ways to promote and grow your classroom blog As teachers, you are always challenged with finding new innovations that make your subjects interesting and engaging for your students. 1. Check out some sample blogs here. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3.
Why You Should Start Classroom Blogging (and How to Do It) There are plenty of reasons to begin classroom blogging with your learners. Aside from being a perfect way to exercise crucial writing and communication skills, it also promotes critical thinking. With classroom blogging conversation on your class content becomes broader since it provides your kids with an excellent peer-to-peer contact platform. It's liberating to share ideas and opinions that awaken your learners' passions. In addition to this, it also builds research and organizational skills. Here are a few other reasons why classroom blogging is good for learning in general: It's a great learning tool when you get feedbackThere's opportunity for teaching digital citizenshipIt's good for building student-teacher communityIt attracts PLN opportunities for teachers Classroom blogging is hard work, but it's fun work. Blogging also helps to get the class outside of the classroom and expand the learning space. Considerations for Starting Out Is SEO Necessary?
A to Z Teacher Stuff :: Folktale Unit: The Princess and the Golden Shoes Folktale Unit: The Princess and the Golden Shoes Grade Level(s): 1-2, 3-5 By: Debbie Haren, Preschool Teacher Language Arts activities to go with the story The Princess and the Golden Shoes. Objectives: To help students learn variations to classic folktales.
Teacher's Guide on The Use of Podcasting in Education What is a Podcast ? According to the New Oxford American Dictionary a podcast is a " digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the internet for downloading to a personal audio payer." in other words, it is a digital audio file that is created, shared and heard. Podcast can also be in the form of videos streamlined online, however, video podcast is known as vidcast or vodcast. Educational Uses of Podcasts Podcasts can be used for several educational purposes. Here are some of them : 1- Recording for this you will need a microphone and an audio recording software like the ones mentioned below. 2- Test your Podcast Always make sure you listen to your podcasts and redo the parts that you dont like until you finally get the vesrion you want then move on to the next step 3- Publish your podcast You can use online platforms for publishing your podcasts. Tools to create your podcast Here are some of the softwares you might start with to create your podcasts .
What Meaningful Writing Means for Students Folks: The posting below looks at the results from the Meaningful Writing Project a study with over seven hundred seniors at three universities. It is by Michele Eodice, Anne Ellen Geller and Neal Lerner, and is from Peer Review, Winter, 2017, Vol. 19, No. 1. Peer Review is a publication of the Association of American Colleges and Universities [ Regards, Rick Reis reis@stanford.edu UP NEXT: Simple Strategies to Develop Rapport with Students and Build a Positive Classroom Climate Tomorrow’s Teaching and Learning ---------- 2,540 words ---------- What Meaningful Writing Means for Students What makes a writing assignment meaningful for undergraduates? First, we asked seniors from the class of 2012, “What was your most meaningful writing project and why was it meaningful to you?” • tap into the power of personal connection; • immerse themselves in what they are thinking, writing, and researching; • imagine their future selves. Figure 1. Acknowledgment References
Short Stories for Children Does your family or class have a favorite short story in the public domain? Please send your suggestions to amlit.editor@gmail.com Looking for chapter books like The Wizard of Oz and Treasure Island? Enjoy our collection of chapter Books for Young Readers You might also like our whimsical Children's Poems, Yummy Stories and for learn-to-read fun, Pre-K Wordplay! Return to American Literature Home Page Does your family or class have a favorite short story in the public domain? Looking for chapter books like The Wizard of Oz and Treasure Island? You might also like our whimsical Children's Poems, Yummy Stories and for learn-to-read fun, Pre-K Wordplay! Return to American Literature Home Page
How to Use Animoto in the Classroom: Create Stunning Student Slideshows Creating Your First Video Once logged in to the site, you are ready to create your first video slide show. This is a simple 3-step process: Step 1: Select your pictures and/or video. You can upload images and videos of you own, select from the Animoto stock gallery, or import them from sites like Facebook, Smugmug, Flickr, Picasa, and Photobucket. Step 2: Choose your slide show music. Step 3: Finalize your video. 7 Steps to a Great Writing Workshop Would you like to make your classroom a stimulating community of writers and learners? Set up a writing workshop! This instructional approach truly engages students by letting them write, read, interact, mentor, and take risks—all at their own pace. Follow these simple steps to create a writing workshop in your classroom. Step 1: Set up a writing workshop framework. A typical writing workshop session has four parts. Step 2: Be a writer! Teach by example, showing not only how you write, but also how to collaborate, respond to other writers, and make improvements based on responses. Step 3: Create a writing community. Help your students work side by side, learning from each other in much the same way that artists do in studios or cooks do in the kitchen. Step 4: Provide many models and topic choices. Models help students see how other writers have shaped their ideas in essays and stories. Your students need to write about topics that interest them. Step 5: Let students work at their own pace.
17 Fun Games to Play in Spanish Class! 1. ARROZ CON PAN: Game of elimination played in a circle where the students chant “Arroz con pan (3x) y sal” then a number is called out and counted around the circle. 2. CIERTO - FALSO: A person (often the teacher) stands between the stands of the trees and calls out phrases related to the class's latest vocabulary. If the statement is true about the student, they must try to run to the other side without being tagged. (Example phrases: “Si te gusta comer helado. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. For example: Mano a mano –they put together their hands. Make it more fun by calling different body parts Codo a rodilla-they put together their elbow and knee. Variation: You can also use flash cards for this game. 10. A student uncovers two cards. 11. “Pesca, pesca, pescador, Pesca un pez, ¿De qué color?” The student who is fishing must say the color. Variation: Write questions on the fish, and instead of saying the color, the student will have to answer the question. 12. 13. 14.A LINE OF NUMBERS:. Carolina
How to Use Social Media as a Learning Tool Social media is an ingrained part of today’s society. Our students are constantly on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and likely many sites we’re not hip enough to know about, and by reading this blog, you’re interacting with social media at this very moment. If you want to bring the “real world” into the classroom, consider integrating social media into your lessons. No Longer a Distraction Image via Flickr by Sean MacEntee When used carefully, social media can be a useful tool rather than a distraction. Education-based sites such as Edmodo, Edublog, and Kidblog provide alternative social media sites for posting status updates and announcements, blogging, and microblogging. Create a Class Facebook Group Facebook is known as a place to post status updates, announcements, photos, and video — all things that we likely use in our classes anyway. A Facebook group also creates a space for students to ask and answer questions. Start a Topical Twitter Feed Require Students to Blog In Short
Proegresados: EXPRESIONES INCORRECTAS VS EXPRESIONES CORRECTAS. MEJORA TU LENGUAJE Expresiones incorrectas. Tomado de: A continuación presentamos algunas expresiones incorrectas que son utilizadas con mucha frecuencia. Fuente: Catalina Jaramillo Aguilar. Docente. Facultad de Comunicación, Universidad de Medellín. Correo electrónico: cjaramillo@udem.edu.co