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What Advice Would You Give a Student Teacher?

…Jessica! Here’s a link to the app: http://dayoneapp.com/ Jennifer Gonzalez Thanks. 🙂 Ami This is such great advice! I would add one more thing — Don’t be afraid to try out new ideas! I’ve been a cooperating teacher, and I would love it when student teachers would try out ideas they learned in their teacher prep classes. It made me super excited for them, and sometimes I learned something new. Jonathan This is a great list, Jennifer. I think the number one thing is never being afraid of asking questions. I would also add that love every student and get…

The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Teaching Job Mid-Year

…how to be practical, and not overshoot, gave me such relief. THANK YOU! E. Farnsworth I was hired a month into the school year last year and they socked me with five preps. That’s right — five different math classes. Some classes were intact, but most were formed by teachers kicking out the students that were causing them the biggest headaches. Keeping order in several of them wasn’t possible for veterans at this lower-level school and it wasn’t possible for me either. I began to succeed when I realized that the 80% of two classes would end up dropping out…

How Pineapple Charts Revolutionize Professional Development

…teachers on staff for our school. We all have the same prep period. The students are in their specials during that time. I don’t see how this would work. 😟 Debbie Sachs That certainly sounds like a different situation. Wondering if anyone would be available to cover your classes for just a little bit while you got to visit each other? Alice Davila Hi there Jessie, I am wanting to launch the pineapple chart here at my campus next month. We are on a 90-minute block with rotating A and B days. Can you share what worked or didn’t work…

Episode 174 Transcript

…I’ve done sometimes full episodes of This American Life that I’ve listened to with my kids, usually over the course of like a week. So you take a 60-minute story that you sort of break up into several different parts, but then there are other shorter podcasts that are more like just for a five-minute interval in classroom activity. So Pamela Rogers, who’s a school librarian and the creator of Buttons & Figs, has developed a playlist of five-minute interactive word play challenges for the classroom. There’s something called What Will She Do Next which is a women’s history podcast…

Episode 79: Retrieval Practice with Pooja Agarwal

…I like to call a brain dump. And there’s again research we’ve done on the benefits of this type of retrieval where you could simply again, in one minute or less or a few minutes, is just ask students to brain dump—to retrieve or pull out everything they know about that American history lesson. GONZALEZ: Right. AGARWAL: Or everything they know about King Tut. And a lot of students. we find, especially in elementary students, are just so surprised at the amount of knowledge they have. GONZALEZ: Yeah. AGARWAL: Because they may not be retrieving it until they do this…

How to Personalize Instruction with Seminars

…to, you’ve got your 20 minutes of independent writing time, during which time you have the opportunity to teach kids as small groups or teach kids individually. I like to challenge the teachers that I work with to think about having in those 20 minutes one small group and one conference, at least. “So if you can fit those in in those 20 minutes, then you’re doing a good job being efficient, because after that 20 minutes, you’ll do a quick interruption. You might highlight something that you saw. You might have an additional teaching point, you might ask somebody…

Your Top 10 Genius Hour Questions Answered

…our day and really enjoyed learning how A.J. had suggested fitting it in a packed schedule Thank you for your help! Toni cecelia my teacher’s making me look for projects on this but i don’t know what it is or what to do. i’m a freshman. this kinda helped so thank you :))))) Rachel Hello Jennifer! I absolutely love yours idea and would really like to implement it. However, I am teaching MS World History at a university model school and only have three 60 minute classes per week. Any suggestions on how to do genius hour under these time…

Episode 98: Improving the Way We Teach About Slavery

…moved on. It was treated as a period of bad behavior in our country’s history, behavior that the “good guys” ultimately put a stop to, and since then, things have been much better. The end. In the years that followed, I built a kind of patchwork understanding of slavery through books, college classes, and films. While every new piece has refined and expanded my understanding of the massive role slavery has played in our history and our contemporary life, the pieces still feel discrete, never stitched together into a cohesive whole. I feel like I’m still lacking a lot of…

What to Do on Lame Duck School Days

…Thank you, Jennifer! I love all your podcasts. I just wanted to let you know that I think the online page for the “list of games” played on the T.V. show Whose Line Is It Anyway? got deleted. Jennifer Gonzalez Thanks for letting me know, Celine! Debbie Sachs Kat, I’m a Customer Experience Manager with Cult of Pedagogy. Thanks so much for sharing — we’ll check it out! Shiloh Minute Earth, Minute Physics, Smarter Every Day, and connection circles are good too. Sharee Hebert For math teachers, a Desmos activity is a great way to get kids engaged. They have…