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12 Ways to Upgrade Your Classroom Design

…use the school library. Libraries are often designed for collaborative work and flexible usage. They typically have comfortable spaces for students to sit and read as well as computers and tables for group work. Check with your librarian, but they usually are happy to accommodate whole classes as well as small groups or individual students. It’s a great way to give students more flexibility. Paige Hi! Currently, I am a student teacher who is finishing up her Master’s in Secondary Ed/ ELA (went straight through school like a complete crazy person), so I am just starting to imagine different ways…

Buzzword Bling: Putting Substance Behind Our Big Words

…personal schema, like “You are the CEO of a company”or “You have just bought your first home.” This is not real to them. Situations like these are out of their world. In order to be authentically real-world, we must provide opportunities that are relevant to our students’ current world. The Glossary of Education Reform defines “authentic learning” as tasks where students learn by doing, that mirror life’s complexities, and where students contribute to communities. Furthermore, they promote the purpose of school as more than a test score, that we should be helping students obtain the skills necessary to be successful…

Episode 96: What Is the Point of a Makerspace?

…is free to use for teachers and students. To learn more visit cultofpedagogy.com/peergrade. Support for this episode also comes from Microsoft OneNote Class Notebook. OneNote Class Notebooks have a personal workspace for every student, a content library for handouts, and a collaboration space for lessons and creative activities. The collaboration space encourages students to work together as the teacher provides real-time feedback and coaching. Teachers can provide individualized support by typing, writing, or inserting audio or video directly into each student’s private notebook. OneNote is free and available on any platform. Learn more at http://onenote.com/classnotebook Now here’s my interview with…

Episode 3: The Montessori Method

…of glad she stood up for that student, you know? Just because there came a point where she felt that the teacher that was there was really focused on maintaining calm, order. Gonzalez: Yeah, which I think a lot of times comes from the fact that you are running the class so if you are attention is diverted to a student who is having trouble then the class can no longer go on because the materials and the set up is not meant for them to be independent, right? Bossut: Right. Exactly. Gonzalez: And that’s why you’re able if one…

The Art of Annotation: Teaching Readers To Process Texts

…grasp on what they should be noticing. Gather the class and project student work (in my class, students volunteer to share). Prompt students to compare annotations, note their peers’ insights, and offer feedback. Allow students to “borrow” snippets of each others’ annotations if they wish. This is intentionally a collaborative process that promotes the sharing of insights and ideas. Students can use the template as long as it’s needed. The cycle of discussion and feedback can continue indefinitely. At any point, the annotation look-fors can be edited for specific genres, content areas, or other purposes for reading. Click here to…

When You Get Nothing But Crickets

…is to collect the individual PearDeck answers and download them into a spreadsheet. I merge the spreadsheet with a mail merge and provide each student with an email that 1) gives the question, 2) gives the student answer, 3) provides the student a score and best of all 4) provides the student with the components that are expected with a fully correct answer. This feedback allows each student to see what they need to do the give a better answer — metacognition for everyone. Many of the formative assessment questions are used on the summative assessment — higher stakes of…

What Should Your Teacher Book Club Read?

…use technology to enhance and “Illuminate” learning, increase student engagement in their learning, and make learning memorable! Katharine Knott Talk less teaching An excellent book that provides usable strategies to encourage teachers to talk less and engage students more in their own learning. I’m not a big education book reader (prefer blogs etc from practitioners) but this was inspiring!I read it 5 years ago and have given it as gifts to student teachers I have mentored. Elaine Thanks so much for the list! Patterns of Power by Jeff Anderson for teaching grammar and conventions in a way that is contextualized…

Episode 15: A Teacher’s Coming Out Story

…walls between my students and myself. Gonzalez: Yeah. Lifshitz: So. Gonzalez: Did, did– During those years and this sounds like we’re talking about seven, eight years of teaching (..) about that. Lifshitz: Yeah, Gonzalez: Was there ever a time when a student or a — Well, let’s stick with the students for right now. Was there ever a time where a student kept pushing the questions to a point where you thought ‘Wow, they’re getting warmer.’ Lifshitz: Luckily, no. Gonzalez: Okay. Lifshitz: You know again, they’re ten and eleven and they sort of don’t get stuff, so you know —…

Episode 149: Nine Ways Online Teaching Should Be Different from Face-to-Face

…same, regardless of which space you’re teaching in. Let’s start with this community building and communication. What’s the first thing that should be a real difference when a person is teaching online? KITCHEN: The first few days and even weeks of school really need to be devoted to community building and attending to students’ social-emotional needs and really thinking about how we are communicating with students and parents. So we know that when we build the social-emotional skills of students that that will increase academics and it also helps with student behavior. We’ve been through some trauma, so trauma is…