Empowering Students to Curb Bullying Bullying among school-age children is on the decline. This is a promising trend; however, 28 percent of all young people in the U.S. experience online bullying, and almost one in four experience bullying in person. Bullying often takes place where there are no adults around, in transitional spaces like hallways and stairwells. Obviously, schools and school staff need to do their part to prevent and address bullying, including establishing policies that reflect district/state guidelines, assessing bullying at their school, monitoring hot spots, encouraging reporting, and educating the school community. But another approach is to empower students to prevent and interrupt bullying by teaching them how to act as allies. What It Means to Be an Ally When we think of the word ally, we often picture someone who directly challenges the person doing the bullying. Young people need to learn specific actions they feel they can realistically take when faced with bullying. Support the target.
Teaching with Superburguesas – My generation of polyglots On this page I provide information about the TPRS novel that I published and links to the free resources I use to teach the novel. An overview of how I teach this novel Word clouds that preview the vocabulary of each chapter. Comprehension questions for each chapter. Crossword puzzle games to use as a post-reading activity for chapters 1-10.
K-W-L (Know, Want to Know, Learned) Description K-W-L (Ogle, 1986) is an instructional reading strategy that is used to guide students through a text. Students begin by brainstorming everything they Know about a topic. This information is recorded in the K column of a K-W-L chart. Purpose The K-W-L strategy serves several purposes: Elicits students’ prior knowledge of the topic of the text. How to use the K-W-L strategy Choose a text. Ogle, D.M. 1986. Example Following is an example of a completed K-W-L chart that students might complete if they were reading a text about gravity. Topic: GRAVITY * The students’ question about Newton was not answered in the text. Reading Comprehension Fix-Up Skills: A Classroom Toolkit Good readers continuously monitor their understanding of informational text. When necessary, they also take steps to improve their understanding of text through use of reading comprehension ‘fix-up’ skills. Presented here are a series of fix-up skill strategies that can help struggling students to better understand difficult reading assignments. [Core Instruction] Providing Main Idea Practice through ‘Partner Retell’ (Carnine & Carnine, 2004). References Boardman, A. Carnine, L., & Carnine, D. (2004). Davey, B., & McBride, S. (1986). Harris, J. (1990). Hedin, L. Kamil, M. Klingner, J. Rosenshine, B., Meister, C., & Chapman, S. (1996). Sarkisian V., Toscano, M., Tomkins-Tinch, K., & Casey, K. (2003). Texas Reading Initiative. (2002).
3 Fun Strategies for Note Taking There are few things my students hate more than taking notes—and I don’t blame them. Hardly anyone enjoys taking notes. No matter the energy of the teacher or the diligence of the student, it’s extraordinarily easy to lose focus while listening to long, uninterrupted lectures. And lectures are often as boring for teachers as they are for students. Taking notes is a necessary component of many classroom curriculums, as lecturing is arguably the most effective way to get information to students quickly, but we can try to enhance the activity. 1. Many teachers, myself included, rely heavily on PowerPoint or Google Slides for displaying notes while lecturing. This strategy is an easy way to incorporate more physical activity into the classroom, especially during a usually sedentary activity like note taking. Another benefit of this strategy is that students can work at their own pace. 2. 3. This technique for note taking requires teamwork, evaluation skills, and common sense.
Brandon Brown Smash Doodle assignment Tiny Texts | Read, listen & learn a littleEnglish readingminilessons - home Technology Teaching Resources with Brittany Washburn: Digital Breakout Challenges for Tech Class You've probably heard about "room escapes" by now. People working together to solve several problems to unlock locks and break out of a locked room. Digital breakouts move this process to the computer. No need to set locks, buy expensive kits, prep clues, or manage materials. The codes and clues are all set on a web page or in a Google Slides file and the locks are a locked Google Form. Using Digital Breakouts in the Tech Lab Most tech labs don't have a lot of room for group work. Students could certainly complete the challenges independently, but this is also a great opportunity for group work. When I design the challenges for my digital breakouts I create them in layers. If you're using Google Classroom, these digital breakouts are a breeze. Do you want to try a Digital Breakout with your students? You can check out the ones I have already created here: Creating your own Digital Breakouts Be forewarned, this is a monumental task the first few times. Brittany Hi, I'm Brittany.
Monsieur SHORTY Teaching Resources 15 years I mix it up depending on the unit and emotional state of the student, as well as their current proficiency level. Comprehensible Input, TPRS, i+1, B=(p,E), Multiple Intelligences. Yet to be added B.A. - Paul Sabatier B.A. - UCLA M.A. Feel free to message me with any questions or suggestions :) PreK, Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool, Staff, Not Grade Specific English Language Arts, Grammar, Specialty, Social Studies - History, World History, World Language, French, Spanish, Arts & Music, Graphic Arts, Music, Vocal Music, Physical Education, Drama, Health, Film, Linguistics, Nutritional Sciences, Physical Education, Life Skills, Classroom Management, Cooking, Short Stories, en Français, Holidays/Seasonal, Thanksgiving, Halloween, For All Subjects, Coaching 15 years I mix it up depending on the unit and emotional state of the student, as well as their current proficiency level. Yet to be added
6 Exceptional Online News Article Resources for ESL Students This just in: The news is about to become your favorite new classroom tool. ESL students quickly evolve and grow into eager, news-thirsty knowledge seekers. Thanks to their language classes, the world has become a little smaller. Your students are taking interest in those popular stories popping up on their social media feeds. They want to know more about the world around them, and they want to use their new English skills to fuel their insatiable desire to learn. Your ESL students may be developing in-depth questions and may start to ask you about local and global news. Give them the knowledge they yearn for. Which ESL News Articles Should I Choose for My Students? There are thousands of online news resources out there to choose from, often making the selection process seem difficult. You can type in a few key words relating to a trending news story and find multiple articles, online news resources and broadcast clips with a click of the mouse. What level are my students? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
A Free Solution to all your PDF Problems The Big CI Book, World Language: Teacher's Discovery How and Why to TCI: Teaching with Comprehensible Input Ben Slavic shows you step by step how to implement CI practices in your classroom, right away. Educators say they saw a 75–80% increase in engagement, found it easy and enjoyable to immediately implement CI practices, and that the book has made teaching meaningful for them again. See the reviews section for more, or read Jenny's experience below: "After 10 years of trying to implement CI/TPRS methods into my teaching, I changed school districts and was told that I had to use traditional methods to teach. I hated going to work the entire year. The Big CI Book Contains: Fourteen Skills that form the foundation of TPRS/CI, including how to circle, the speed at which to move, how to clarify, and how to read students and know if the input is really getting in. Twenty-seven Strategies to keep your channels of delivery varied and satisfy students' cravings for novelty. ©2015. Book Download: PDF. Print Book: Spiral-bound. 8.5 x 11 inches. A gem
How to Use Toony Tool to Create Educational Cartoons, Posters or Memes | The Techie Teacher® Toony Tool is a free web tool that works on any device with a web browser and allows students to express their creativity by making their own educational cartoon scenes, comic scenes, posters or memes. I like this creation website because it does not require a login and students can download a jpeg of their creations. This is one of the tools that I include in both my Word Study/Spelling Digital Choice Board and Vocabulary Digital Choice Board since it is so easy to use. When you launch the website you will first choose from one of Toony Tool's backgrounds or upload your own. Students can add a background, characters (they have a bank of characters or you can upload your own), quote/thought bubbles, props or meme text. Here is an example of a poster that was created with options available within this website: This one was made with options available within the website. This poster was created with a Toony Tool background and an Egyptian character that was found on PhotosforClass. Welcome!