A simple geometry lesson livens up the southern sky when three bright celestial bodies form a right triangle — defined as a triangle where one of the angles is 90 degrees.
Let’s see. How many different types of triangles are there? There are only six. You’ve got your:
1. right triangle,
2. equilateral,
3. scalene,
4. isosceles,
5. acute and ,
6. obtuse.
The most familiar — the right triangle will be put on display at dusk when the moon, Saturn and Spica, Virgo’s brightest star, gather together in the southern sky. Watch for it!
You could quibble that it’s not a perfect right triangle where the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two sides, but it’s a solid effort.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
beginning Algebra made easy!
1. An Equal Sign means that one side is equal to the other.
15 = 7 + 8
7 + 8 = 15
2. Numbers or variables - it doesn't make any difference.
w + 5 = 14
14 = w + 5
3. You can move the constant (number) from one side of the equal sign to the other as long as whatever you do to one side you do to the other. Using the below equation to practice.
w + 5 = 14 (you want the variable to be all alone so you need to subtract 5 from each side
-5 = - 5 (what you do to one of an equation you do to the other)
w = 9
and...
C - 3 = 7
+3 = 3
C = 10
Did you notice that once the equation was set up with the variables on one side and the numbers on the other, it was much easier to solve?
Do not get into the habit of solving the equations in your head - try and understand what is happening.
for more practical ideas on alebra made easy... go to
www.numberpower.org
15 = 7 + 8
7 + 8 = 15
2. Numbers or variables - it doesn't make any difference.
w + 5 = 14
14 = w + 5
3. You can move the constant (number) from one side of the equal sign to the other as long as whatever you do to one side you do to the other. Using the below equation to practice.
w + 5 = 14 (you want the variable to be all alone so you need to subtract 5 from each side
-5 = - 5 (what you do to one of an equation you do to the other)
w = 9
and...
C - 3 = 7
+3 = 3
C = 10
Did you notice that once the equation was set up with the variables on one side and the numbers on the other, it was much easier to solve?
Do not get into the habit of solving the equations in your head - try and understand what is happening.
for more practical ideas on alebra made easy... go to
www.numberpower.org
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Division is simply backwards multiplication !
Teaching Basic Division
Teaching long division is not difficult if your students already know their multiplication tables. Explain to your students that they are going to be practicing their multiplication facts backwards and write some examples on the board:
2 times what equals 8? 2 x ? = 8
2 x 4 = 8
Once you have answered several questions like this, tell the students that they have actually been solving division problems. 8 divided by 2= 4
and 8 divided by 4 = 2
Once students realize that division is simply backwards multiplication, it should not seem so scary to them.
When you get to bigger numbers, and for students who struggle with multiplication, get out some simple math manipulatives to teach the concept of division.
For example,if you have 8 pieces on your desk, how many equal groups of 2 can you make?
Divide the pieces into groups to find out, stressing that the groups must be equal and any that are left over are the remainder.
Teaching long division is not difficult if your students already know their multiplication tables. Explain to your students that they are going to be practicing their multiplication facts backwards and write some examples on the board:
2 times what equals 8? 2 x ? = 8
2 x 4 = 8
Once you have answered several questions like this, tell the students that they have actually been solving division problems. 8 divided by 2= 4
and 8 divided by 4 = 2
Once students realize that division is simply backwards multiplication, it should not seem so scary to them.
When you get to bigger numbers, and for students who struggle with multiplication, get out some simple math manipulatives to teach the concept of division.
For example,if you have 8 pieces on your desk, how many equal groups of 2 can you make?
Divide the pieces into groups to find out, stressing that the groups must be equal and any that are left over are the remainder.
4 Ways to Teach a Child to Read. . .
4 Ways to Teach a Child to Read
1. Teach the Alphabet
Learning the alphabet is the first step in learning to read. Children can start to recognize letters around the age of 2. Identifying the letters in child's name is a good start, as they probably have seen their names written repeatedly by that age. Learning the alphabet song is also age appropriate,but kids won't know what they are singing about unless you link each letter to a visual representation. Alphabet toys, including bath sponges, refrigerator magnets and blocks, can introduce different letters and let your child start to spell out simple words like "cat" and "dog." This teaches children that letters make up words, even if they cannot read the words yet.
2. Read Aloud Together
A daily reading routine with your child can teach the skills needed to learn to read. At the ages of 2-3 years old, your child will begin to associate words on the page with spoken words, even if they are more interested in the pictures. They will begin to understand the concept of reading through your modeling the behavior.
At ages 3-4 years old, children can start to comprehend the different elements of vocabulary: sentence structure and story elements. At this point, you should discuss the books you read together. Ask questions like, "This says that the girl was joyful?" What does joyful mean?
Choose books that relate to things your child is familiar with, such as having brothers & sisters,or visiting with the grandparents. Your child will understand more of a story to that they can personally connect. Character books are good because the child becomes attached to the character and more interested in the story.
3. Make the Reading and Writing Connection
Part of learning to read is learning to write. Children do not typically have the motor skills or intellect to write until around the age of 4. At that point, you can start teaching how to write the letters of the alphabet, beginning with the letters in your child's name. You can help the child write a letter to grandmaa. Write out the words as your child dictates. Afterwards, read back what was written to show the connection. You can even point to each word as you read to strengthen the relationship between written words and spoken words.
4.Identify Words With Objects
Labeling different objects with their words can teach the concept of reading to children. Around your house, you can label the television, the refrigerator, doors, stairs, bookshelves and walls. When children associate written words with objects,then they are almost reading.
A way to reinforce this is to lift the labels, then have your child replace them where they go. For older children, flashcards with pictures take this concept even further.
1. Teach the Alphabet
Learning the alphabet is the first step in learning to read. Children can start to recognize letters around the age of 2. Identifying the letters in child's name is a good start, as they probably have seen their names written repeatedly by that age. Learning the alphabet song is also age appropriate,but kids won't know what they are singing about unless you link each letter to a visual representation. Alphabet toys, including bath sponges, refrigerator magnets and blocks, can introduce different letters and let your child start to spell out simple words like "cat" and "dog." This teaches children that letters make up words, even if they cannot read the words yet.
2. Read Aloud Together
A daily reading routine with your child can teach the skills needed to learn to read. At the ages of 2-3 years old, your child will begin to associate words on the page with spoken words, even if they are more interested in the pictures. They will begin to understand the concept of reading through your modeling the behavior.
At ages 3-4 years old, children can start to comprehend the different elements of vocabulary: sentence structure and story elements. At this point, you should discuss the books you read together. Ask questions like, "This says that the girl was joyful?" What does joyful mean?
Choose books that relate to things your child is familiar with, such as having brothers & sisters,or visiting with the grandparents. Your child will understand more of a story to that they can personally connect. Character books are good because the child becomes attached to the character and more interested in the story.
3. Make the Reading and Writing Connection
Part of learning to read is learning to write. Children do not typically have the motor skills or intellect to write until around the age of 4. At that point, you can start teaching how to write the letters of the alphabet, beginning with the letters in your child's name. You can help the child write a letter to grandmaa. Write out the words as your child dictates. Afterwards, read back what was written to show the connection. You can even point to each word as you read to strengthen the relationship between written words and spoken words.
4.Identify Words With Objects
Labeling different objects with their words can teach the concept of reading to children. Around your house, you can label the television, the refrigerator, doors, stairs, bookshelves and walls. When children associate written words with objects,then they are almost reading.
A way to reinforce this is to lift the labels, then have your child replace them where they go. For older children, flashcards with pictures take this concept even further.
Friday, March 18, 2011
How to Create a Podcast in 3 Simple Steps . . .
go to http://www.podbean.com
a. Once on their site,join (the 'basic' is free!)
b. After you've joined,the link will take you to where
you can begin the 'set-up' to podcast.
c. It is very simple, but be sure to follow the directions,step-by-step
a. Once on their site,join (the 'basic' is free!)
b. After you've joined,the link will take you to where
you can begin the 'set-up' to podcast.
c. It is very simple, but be sure to follow the directions,step-by-step
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Resources for Educators
Resources for Educators:
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
http://www.flags.net/
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/
http://www.jps.net/hatzi/awesomeauthors.htm#D
http://www.eric-carle.com/
http://www.janbrett.com/
http://lincoln.midcoast.com/~wps/jackson/alphabet.htm
http://daniel.calpoly.edu/~dfrc/Robin (math lesson plans)
http://www.kids-learn.org/pumpkins/welcome.html (a 2nd grade teacher’s project)
http://www.sikids.com/halloween/index.html (Sports Illustrated)
http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html (virtual Trick or Treating)
http://users.erols.com/ouremail/Halloween%20site/Halloween_Fun_Page.htm
http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/K_12/Teaching/Lesson_Plans/
http://www.yahooligans.com (kids search engine)
http://www.bconnex.net/~mbuchana/realms/page7/index.html#thanks (electronic coloring book)
http://www.kate.net/holidays
http://www.benjerry.com
http://www.kidsdomain.com
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/50.html
http://teachertidbytes.com/
http://www.teachers.net/
http://www.EnchantedLearning.com
http://eduplace.com/ (Houghton-Mifflin)
http://teacherpathfinder.org/
http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/staffpages/shirk/k12.music.html
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
http://www.flags.net/
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/
http://www.jps.net/hatzi/awesomeauthors.htm#D
http://www.eric-carle.com/
http://www.janbrett.com/
http://lincoln.midcoast.com/~wps/jackson/alphabet.htm
http://daniel.calpoly.edu/~dfrc/Robin (math lesson plans)
http://www.kids-learn.org/pumpkins/welcome.html (a 2nd grade teacher’s project)
http://www.sikids.com/halloween/index.html (Sports Illustrated)
http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html (virtual Trick or Treating)
http://users.erols.com/ouremail/Halloween%20site/Halloween_Fun_Page.htm
http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/K_12/Teaching/Lesson_Plans/
http://www.yahooligans.com (kids search engine)
http://www.bconnex.net/~mbuchana/realms/page7/index.html#thanks (electronic coloring book)
http://www.kate.net/holidays
http://www.benjerry.com
http://www.kidsdomain.com
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/50.html
http://teachertidbytes.com/
http://www.teachers.net/
http://www.EnchantedLearning.com
http://eduplace.com/ (Houghton-Mifflin)
http://teacherpathfinder.org/
http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/staffpages/shirk/k12.music.html
Internet Sites for Teachers
WEB SITE: The Education Place
URL: http://eduplace.com/
DESCRIPTION: Links and activities in four subject areas for grades K-8. Many choices.
WEB SITE: Education World
URL: http://www.education-world.com/
DESCRIPTION: All subject areas. Many options and links. Grades K-8.
WEB SITE: DearKidInfo/Dear Teacher Tidbytes
URL: http://teachertidbytes.com/
DESCRIPTION: Easy to use. Explore many subjects from grammar to current events. Bits of information in science, history, art, music, etc. K-5
WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
DESCRIPTION: Designed for children. Includes a pictionary, foreign language dictionaries, puzzles, games, activities, crafts, as well as information. Designed to develop creativity in children, ages 5-10, puzzles & coloring sheets can be copied.
WEB SITE: Parents Page
URL: http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/50.html
DESCRIPTION: Many sites recommended by librarians. Activities and lesson plans for art, music, creative writing, math, science, health, etc., K-2
WEB SITE: Teacher
URL: http://www.teachers.net/
DESCRIPTION: Links and activities for all subject areas for all grade levels on cute poems/songs
WEB SITE: Lesson Plans
URL: http://www.kids-learn.org/pumpkins/welcome.html
DESCRIPTION: Many subject area lesson plans from experienced teachers. Poems, creative writing and art ideas are presented and can be easily printed out for classroom use in all grades
WEB SITE: Education World
URL: http://www.education-world.com/index.shtml
DESCRIPTION: This is a very good site for finding information about a variety of events and subjects in class. This is good for K –6 teachers, all areas of curriculum & all months. The site changes to coincide with the months. Has link to Museum with skill sheet
to go with it.
WEB SITE: Teacher Tidbytes
URL: http://www.teachertidbytes.com/
DESCRIPTION: This is a very good site for finding a variety of information about different subjects. There are teacher sites and parent/student sites. You can be connected to different museums, encyclopedias, etc. There are many links to holidays, and special events, science, math, etc. There is a connection to clip art sites.
WEBSITE: Kid’s Search Engine
URL: http://www.yahooligans.com/
DESCRIPTION: This is an excellent site for kids AND teachers. The school bell section has many suggestions for teaching ideas and learning. There is a section to look up info on authors and books. There is a list of all holidays found on the calendar and sites to go to. There is a kid’s almanac. Site is used for research for both teachers & students. Good for all age
WEB SITE: Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
URL: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide
DESCRIPTION: This site covers just about every subject that would be covered in school.
WEB SITE: Teacher Tidbytes
URL: http://teachertidbytes.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site contains different sites that teachers could use for their professional purposes.
WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves for Kids
URL: http://www.ajkids.com/
DESCRIPTION: Ask any question, and this site will provide you with an answer from science to social studies to any academic area.
WEB SITE: Houghton-Mifflin Social Studies Center
URL: http://www.eduplace.com/ss
DESCRIPTION: This web site compliments the social studies program in the Houghton Mifflin series; a good cross-reference site.This is a good site for the social studies curriculum. It includes current events that are updated monthly.
WEB: SITE: Yahoo Lesson Plans
URL: http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/K_12/Teaching/Lesson_Plans/
DESCRIPTION: This program is a part of Yahoo that addresses educational topics in all areas of the curriculum, including science, social studies, literature and many more topics.
WEB SITE: Fun Brain
URL: http://www.funbrain.com/
DESCRIPTION: Interactive educational games categorized by age (6 and under, 7-10, 11-15, 15 and up). Each game has a brief description and level of difficulty.
WEB SITE: Reach Every Child
URL: http://www.reacheverychild.com/index.html
DESCRIPTION: The Horace Mann Companies has teamed up with National Teacher's Hall of Fame inductee, Alan Haskvitz, to produce a web site full of resources for teachers and students. Alan has collected these resources over the years and used them in his classroom. Included in this site are over 5,000 resources. It is updated often
WEB SITE: Teachers Net
URL: http://www.teachers.net/
DESCRIPTION: A teachers’ resource, including living chats, and grade/subject specific mail-rings. A good resource to find out what other teachers are teaching.
WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves
URL: http://www.ajkids.com/
DESCRIPTION: This web site will provide an answer to any questions a student may have, a great tool for answering any question very quickly!
WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
Description: A web site that provides many different topics for children to explore. It even includes Spanish, it provides excellent illustrations, information – an illustrated dictionary, and Classroom activities are suggested as well, K-5.
WEB SITE: Teacher Tidbytes
URL: http://www.teachertidbytes.com/
DESCRIPTION: This web site is packed with information on all topics. There are many links to other sites.
WEB SITE: Education Index
URL: http://www.educationindex.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site helps you locate the best education sites for all subject areas and ages. An interesting aspect to this site is that it includes a "Virtual Refrigerator Door" for parents to scan their child’s artwork onto the Internet. Their name and the picture they’ve drawn appear on the site.
WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
DESCRIPTION: Links to different activities for primary grades, K-3 for studying animals
WEB SITE: Teacher Resources
URL: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide
DESCRIPTION: Information and resources in school areas from a-z
WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
DESCRIPTION: lesson ideas for Spanish-English
WEB SITE: Teachers
URL: http://www.teachers.net/
DESCRIPTION: teachers chat rooms, resources, lessons, etc. section for substitute teachers.
WEB SITE: For teachers: lessons
URL: http://www.teachers.net/lessons/
DESCRIPTION: lesson plans, and added ideas for lesson plans
WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves for Kids
URL: http://www.ajkids.com/
DESCRIPTION: Search engine for children to use (The adult version is http://askjeeves.com/). Children type in their question, and Jeeves directs them to the answer.
WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves for Teachers
URL: http://www.ajkids.com/teachers/TeachersMR.asp
DESCRIPTION: Listing of links for teachers addressing a variety of topics. A question can be typed in directly and "Jeeves" will answer it.
WEB SITE: Ask Eric Lesson Plans
URL: http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Science/Physical/index.html
DESCRIPTION: This web site has great science lesson plans for grades K-12. The experiments are arranged alphabetically, primary-intermediate- differenty types of science
WEB SITE: Halloween
URL: http://kate.net/holiday/halloween
DESCRIPTION: Various activities, crafts, ghoulish sounds, games, recipes and information with regards to Halloween.
WEB SITE: Thanksgiving
URL: http://kidsdomain.com/holiday/thanks/
DESCRIPTION: Thanksgiving resource- mazes, word searches, books to read
WEB SITE: An American Thanksgiving
URL: http://www.night.net/thanksgiving/
DESCRIPTION: Great activities for Thanksgiving, grades 3-6; correlates with Social Studies
WEB SITE: Ben and Jerry’s
URL: http://www.benjerry.com/
DESCRIPTION: Fun Stuff. Games, riddles, mazes, and puzzles for holidays.Easy, medium and hard levels for games and puzzles.
WEB SITE: Sports Illustrated Kids
URL: http://www.sikids.com/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: All sports related activities for fun such as a haunted house, horrors, and trick -or-treating and sports trivia
URL: http://www.kate.net/holidays/halloween
DESCRIPTION: Excellent site for holiday ideas with a wide variety of activities for all holidays. Site includes sound with songs to correlate with holidays. It also has clip art
WEB SITE: Holidays
URL: http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/thanks/word
DESCRIPTION: Four crossword puzzles and word finds for Thanksgiving. Answer sheets provided, K-3 activities.
WEB SITE: Holidays
URL: http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: This is an excellent site for educators. It has many colorful graphics and stories that can be printed for classroom use. Many other links for other teaching activities are available.
WEB SITE: Ben & Jerry’s Thanksgiving
URL: http://www.benjerry.com/thanksgiving/
DESCRIPTION: This site has a list of different ideas for Thanksgiving. There are recipes, info on Indians, coloring pages
WEB SITE: Magic Rainbow
URL: http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: This was an excellent web site with lots of fun activities and graphics. There was even virtual trick-or-treating for kids! You can also find general information if you’re not looking for holiday information.
WEB SITE: Kids Domain
URL: http://www.kidsdomain.com/
DESCRIPTION: This was another excellent site. There was plenty of information for children, parents and educators. There are primary crafts, recipes and activities.
WEB SITE: Halloween/Holidays Site
URL: http://www.kate.net/holidays/halloween
DESCRIPTION: Large number of Halloween activities at various levels. Books, history of, recipes, puzzle and lot more!
WEB SITE: An American Thanksgiving
URL: http://www.night.net/thanksgiving/
DESCRIPTION: Terrific varied activities
Web Site: Pumpkin Patch
URL: http://www.kids-learn.org/pumpkins/welcome.html
DESCRIPTION: A collection of pumpkin poetry in varied styles; useful in teaching poetry
WEB SITE: Holidays
URL: http://www.kate.net/holidays/halloween
DESCRIPTION: nice Halloween activities, fun to do, ages 7-12
WEB SITE: Halloween (Sports Illustrated)
URL: http://www.sikids.com/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: fun writing & reading activities correlating sports and Halloween
WEB SITE: Ben & Jerry’s Thanksgiving
URL: http://www2.benjerry.com/thanksgiving/index.html
DESCRIPTION: Thanksgiving poems, songs, ideas and word finds- Nov. activities
WEB SITE: Chantessy’s Place of Frightful Fun
URL: http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: Interactive Halloween activities for children
WEB SITE: Eric Carle
URL: http://www.eric-carle.com/
DESCRIPTION: Links and activities for kdg-2nd grade. Lesson plans included. E-mail to author available; K-2, reading, math & science
WEB SITE: Awesome Authors
URL: http://www.jps.net/hatzi/awesomeauthors.htm
DESCRIPTION: Excellent description of books by famous authors. Biography, pictures of authors are also given. Many selected activities using the books-puzzles, games, word finds can be printed for classroom use; K-12
WEBSITE: Jan Brett
URL: http://www.janbrett.com/
DESCRIPTION: This is a site that lets you learn everything you wanted to know about Jan Brett and were afraid to ask. Well, ask no more! There are activities that refer to each of the Jan Brett books. Excellent site, K-3
WEB SITE: Mrs. Jackson’s Morris Farm Alphabet Book Site
URL: http://lincoln.midcoast.com/~wps/jackson/alphabet.htm
DESCRIPTION: This site teaches the alphabet by using the Morris Farm.
WEB SITE: Eric Carle
URL: http://www.eric-carle.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site refers to the author, Eric Carle, who writes children literature on the primary level. His site covers his books
WEB SITE: Exploring Native Americans Across the Curriculum
URL: http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson038.shtml#sites
DESCRIPTION: Information on the different native American Nations
WEB SITE: Flags
URL: http://www.flags.net/
DESCRIPTION: This site provides statistics for each country, its location, and all of the flags of that country.
WEB SITE: Flags
URL: http://www.flags.net/
DESCRIPTION: This site is about flags of countries. This site is an excellent site for finding the origins of flags and what the different flags of the countries look like.
WEB SITE: Color Landform Atlas of the United States
URL: http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
DESCRITION: This site covers the fifty states of the nation.
WEB SITE: Endangered Species
URS: http://www.teachertidbytes.com/Web_Lesson_Plans/A_Hotlist_on_Endangered_An.html
DESCRIPTION: Links to projects and Internet Resources, facts about endangered species, includes an online coloring book.
WEB SITE: On Line coloring book for endangered species
URL: http://biology.usgs.gov/features/kidscorner/index.html
DESCRIPTION: Coloring pages for individual endangered animals. It gives a picture and short description of many endangered animals. Ideal for a research project, K-5
WEB SITE: Chemistry for Kids
URL: http://www.chem4kids.com/
DESCRIPTION: This science web site focuses on chemistry for grades 5 and up. It deals with matter, atoms, molecules, and chemical reactions; Intermediate Science
WEB SITE: The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
URL: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
DESCRIPTION: This site lists books on the subject of the planets. An annotated bibliography is provided with the price of each book.
URL: http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: Various Halloween activities including Trick or Treating for PreK- K
URL: http://www.school.discovery.com/schrockguide
DESCRIPTION: This is a great web site for educators. It links to many different subject areas across all grade levels. If you are looking for a lesson, you will probably be able to find it here.
URL: http://www.puzzlemaker.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site allows you to create customized puzzles to use in the classroom. Although some of the puzzles worked fine and were great, a few did not work properly. This was a bit disappointing! There were some great puzzles and it’s wonderful to be able to just print out the work, rather than creating the puzzle by hand. All you do is plug in the information. For all grade levels.
URL: http://www.theideabox.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site is great for finding early elementary & quick ideas and projects for the classroom. It mainly focuses on crafts, recipes, songs and seasonal projects. It does list an idea of the day or for the week & it links to great sites like The Busy Teacher.
URL: http://www.google.com/
DESCRIPTION: a no-frills search engine, Google uses sophisticated next-generation technology to produce the right results fast with every query.
URL: http://www.teacherpathfinder.org/
Description: This is an excellent site for a variety of subject matter. There is a list of the typical subjects and links to different sites on the subjects. This site is a good reference site for teachers to find information on subjects.
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/WEB SITE: Holiday ActivitiesWEB SITE: HolidaysWEB SITE: School DiscoveryWEB SITE: The Puzzle MakerWEB SITE: The Idea BoxWEB SITE: Google (Search Engine)WEBSITE: Teacher PathfinderWEB SITE: Games
URL: http://eduplace.com/
DESCRIPTION: Links and activities in four subject areas for grades K-8. Many choices.
WEB SITE: Education World
URL: http://www.education-world.com/
DESCRIPTION: All subject areas. Many options and links. Grades K-8.
WEB SITE: DearKidInfo/Dear Teacher Tidbytes
URL: http://teachertidbytes.com/
DESCRIPTION: Easy to use. Explore many subjects from grammar to current events. Bits of information in science, history, art, music, etc. K-5
WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
DESCRIPTION: Designed for children. Includes a pictionary, foreign language dictionaries, puzzles, games, activities, crafts, as well as information. Designed to develop creativity in children, ages 5-10, puzzles & coloring sheets can be copied.
WEB SITE: Parents Page
URL: http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/50.html
DESCRIPTION: Many sites recommended by librarians. Activities and lesson plans for art, music, creative writing, math, science, health, etc., K-2
WEB SITE: Teacher
URL: http://www.teachers.net/
DESCRIPTION: Links and activities for all subject areas for all grade levels on cute poems/songs
WEB SITE: Lesson Plans
URL: http://www.kids-learn.org/pumpkins/welcome.html
DESCRIPTION: Many subject area lesson plans from experienced teachers. Poems, creative writing and art ideas are presented and can be easily printed out for classroom use in all grades
WEB SITE: Education World
URL: http://www.education-world.com/index.shtml
DESCRIPTION: This is a very good site for finding information about a variety of events and subjects in class. This is good for K –6 teachers, all areas of curriculum & all months. The site changes to coincide with the months. Has link to Museum with skill sheet
to go with it.
WEB SITE: Teacher Tidbytes
URL: http://www.teachertidbytes.com/
DESCRIPTION: This is a very good site for finding a variety of information about different subjects. There are teacher sites and parent/student sites. You can be connected to different museums, encyclopedias, etc. There are many links to holidays, and special events, science, math, etc. There is a connection to clip art sites.
WEBSITE: Kid’s Search Engine
URL: http://www.yahooligans.com/
DESCRIPTION: This is an excellent site for kids AND teachers. The school bell section has many suggestions for teaching ideas and learning. There is a section to look up info on authors and books. There is a list of all holidays found on the calendar and sites to go to. There is a kid’s almanac. Site is used for research for both teachers & students. Good for all age
WEB SITE: Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
URL: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide
DESCRIPTION: This site covers just about every subject that would be covered in school.
WEB SITE: Teacher Tidbytes
URL: http://teachertidbytes.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site contains different sites that teachers could use for their professional purposes.
WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves for Kids
URL: http://www.ajkids.com/
DESCRIPTION: Ask any question, and this site will provide you with an answer from science to social studies to any academic area.
WEB SITE: Houghton-Mifflin Social Studies Center
URL: http://www.eduplace.com/ss
DESCRIPTION: This web site compliments the social studies program in the Houghton Mifflin series; a good cross-reference site.This is a good site for the social studies curriculum. It includes current events that are updated monthly.
WEB: SITE: Yahoo Lesson Plans
URL: http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/K_12/Teaching/Lesson_Plans/
DESCRIPTION: This program is a part of Yahoo that addresses educational topics in all areas of the curriculum, including science, social studies, literature and many more topics.
WEB SITE: Fun Brain
URL: http://www.funbrain.com/
DESCRIPTION: Interactive educational games categorized by age (6 and under, 7-10, 11-15, 15 and up). Each game has a brief description and level of difficulty.
WEB SITE: Reach Every Child
URL: http://www.reacheverychild.com/index.html
DESCRIPTION: The Horace Mann Companies has teamed up with National Teacher's Hall of Fame inductee, Alan Haskvitz, to produce a web site full of resources for teachers and students. Alan has collected these resources over the years and used them in his classroom. Included in this site are over 5,000 resources. It is updated often
WEB SITE: Teachers Net
URL: http://www.teachers.net/
DESCRIPTION: A teachers’ resource, including living chats, and grade/subject specific mail-rings. A good resource to find out what other teachers are teaching.
WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves
URL: http://www.ajkids.com/
DESCRIPTION: This web site will provide an answer to any questions a student may have, a great tool for answering any question very quickly!
WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
Description: A web site that provides many different topics for children to explore. It even includes Spanish, it provides excellent illustrations, information – an illustrated dictionary, and Classroom activities are suggested as well, K-5.
WEB SITE: Teacher Tidbytes
URL: http://www.teachertidbytes.com/
DESCRIPTION: This web site is packed with information on all topics. There are many links to other sites.
WEB SITE: Education Index
URL: http://www.educationindex.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site helps you locate the best education sites for all subject areas and ages. An interesting aspect to this site is that it includes a "Virtual Refrigerator Door" for parents to scan their child’s artwork onto the Internet. Their name and the picture they’ve drawn appear on the site.
WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
DESCRIPTION: Links to different activities for primary grades, K-3 for studying animals
WEB SITE: Teacher Resources
URL: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide
DESCRIPTION: Information and resources in school areas from a-z
WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
DESCRIPTION: lesson ideas for Spanish-English
WEB SITE: Teachers
URL: http://www.teachers.net/
DESCRIPTION: teachers chat rooms, resources, lessons, etc. section for substitute teachers.
WEB SITE: For teachers: lessons
URL: http://www.teachers.net/lessons/
DESCRIPTION: lesson plans, and added ideas for lesson plans
WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves for Kids
URL: http://www.ajkids.com/
DESCRIPTION: Search engine for children to use (The adult version is http://askjeeves.com/). Children type in their question, and Jeeves directs them to the answer.
WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves for Teachers
URL: http://www.ajkids.com/teachers/TeachersMR.asp
DESCRIPTION: Listing of links for teachers addressing a variety of topics. A question can be typed in directly and "Jeeves" will answer it.
WEB SITE: Ask Eric Lesson Plans
URL: http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Science/Physical/index.html
DESCRIPTION: This web site has great science lesson plans for grades K-12. The experiments are arranged alphabetically, primary-intermediate- differenty types of science
WEB SITE: Halloween
URL: http://kate.net/holiday/halloween
DESCRIPTION: Various activities, crafts, ghoulish sounds, games, recipes and information with regards to Halloween.
WEB SITE: Thanksgiving
URL: http://kidsdomain.com/holiday/thanks/
DESCRIPTION: Thanksgiving resource- mazes, word searches, books to read
WEB SITE: An American Thanksgiving
URL: http://www.night.net/thanksgiving/
DESCRIPTION: Great activities for Thanksgiving, grades 3-6; correlates with Social Studies
WEB SITE: Ben and Jerry’s
URL: http://www.benjerry.com/
DESCRIPTION: Fun Stuff. Games, riddles, mazes, and puzzles for holidays.Easy, medium and hard levels for games and puzzles.
WEB SITE: Sports Illustrated Kids
URL: http://www.sikids.com/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: All sports related activities for fun such as a haunted house, horrors, and trick -or-treating and sports trivia
URL: http://www.kate.net/holidays/halloween
DESCRIPTION: Excellent site for holiday ideas with a wide variety of activities for all holidays. Site includes sound with songs to correlate with holidays. It also has clip art
WEB SITE: Holidays
URL: http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/thanks/word
DESCRIPTION: Four crossword puzzles and word finds for Thanksgiving. Answer sheets provided, K-3 activities.
WEB SITE: Holidays
URL: http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: This is an excellent site for educators. It has many colorful graphics and stories that can be printed for classroom use. Many other links for other teaching activities are available.
WEB SITE: Ben & Jerry’s Thanksgiving
URL: http://www.benjerry.com/thanksgiving/
DESCRIPTION: This site has a list of different ideas for Thanksgiving. There are recipes, info on Indians, coloring pages
WEB SITE: Magic Rainbow
URL: http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: This was an excellent web site with lots of fun activities and graphics. There was even virtual trick-or-treating for kids! You can also find general information if you’re not looking for holiday information.
WEB SITE: Kids Domain
URL: http://www.kidsdomain.com/
DESCRIPTION: This was another excellent site. There was plenty of information for children, parents and educators. There are primary crafts, recipes and activities.
WEB SITE: Halloween/Holidays Site
URL: http://www.kate.net/holidays/halloween
DESCRIPTION: Large number of Halloween activities at various levels. Books, history of, recipes, puzzle and lot more!
WEB SITE: An American Thanksgiving
URL: http://www.night.net/thanksgiving/
DESCRIPTION: Terrific varied activities
Web Site: Pumpkin Patch
URL: http://www.kids-learn.org/pumpkins/welcome.html
DESCRIPTION: A collection of pumpkin poetry in varied styles; useful in teaching poetry
WEB SITE: Holidays
URL: http://www.kate.net/holidays/halloween
DESCRIPTION: nice Halloween activities, fun to do, ages 7-12
WEB SITE: Halloween (Sports Illustrated)
URL: http://www.sikids.com/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: fun writing & reading activities correlating sports and Halloween
WEB SITE: Ben & Jerry’s Thanksgiving
URL: http://www2.benjerry.com/thanksgiving/index.html
DESCRIPTION: Thanksgiving poems, songs, ideas and word finds- Nov. activities
WEB SITE: Chantessy’s Place of Frightful Fun
URL: http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: Interactive Halloween activities for children
WEB SITE: Eric Carle
URL: http://www.eric-carle.com/
DESCRIPTION: Links and activities for kdg-2nd grade. Lesson plans included. E-mail to author available; K-2, reading, math & science
WEB SITE: Awesome Authors
URL: http://www.jps.net/hatzi/awesomeauthors.htm
DESCRIPTION: Excellent description of books by famous authors. Biography, pictures of authors are also given. Many selected activities using the books-puzzles, games, word finds can be printed for classroom use; K-12
WEBSITE: Jan Brett
URL: http://www.janbrett.com/
DESCRIPTION: This is a site that lets you learn everything you wanted to know about Jan Brett and were afraid to ask. Well, ask no more! There are activities that refer to each of the Jan Brett books. Excellent site, K-3
WEB SITE: Mrs. Jackson’s Morris Farm Alphabet Book Site
URL: http://lincoln.midcoast.com/~wps/jackson/alphabet.htm
DESCRIPTION: This site teaches the alphabet by using the Morris Farm.
WEB SITE: Eric Carle
URL: http://www.eric-carle.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site refers to the author, Eric Carle, who writes children literature on the primary level. His site covers his books
WEB SITE: Exploring Native Americans Across the Curriculum
URL: http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson038.shtml#sites
DESCRIPTION: Information on the different native American Nations
WEB SITE: Flags
URL: http://www.flags.net/
DESCRIPTION: This site provides statistics for each country, its location, and all of the flags of that country.
WEB SITE: Flags
URL: http://www.flags.net/
DESCRIPTION: This site is about flags of countries. This site is an excellent site for finding the origins of flags and what the different flags of the countries look like.
WEB SITE: Color Landform Atlas of the United States
URL: http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
DESCRITION: This site covers the fifty states of the nation.
WEB SITE: Endangered Species
URS: http://www.teachertidbytes.com/Web_Lesson_Plans/A_Hotlist_on_Endangered_An.html
DESCRIPTION: Links to projects and Internet Resources, facts about endangered species, includes an online coloring book.
WEB SITE: On Line coloring book for endangered species
URL: http://biology.usgs.gov/features/kidscorner/index.html
DESCRIPTION: Coloring pages for individual endangered animals. It gives a picture and short description of many endangered animals. Ideal for a research project, K-5
WEB SITE: Chemistry for Kids
URL: http://www.chem4kids.com/
DESCRIPTION: This science web site focuses on chemistry for grades 5 and up. It deals with matter, atoms, molecules, and chemical reactions; Intermediate Science
WEB SITE: The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
URL: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
DESCRIPTION: This site lists books on the subject of the planets. An annotated bibliography is provided with the price of each book.
URL: http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: Various Halloween activities including Trick or Treating for PreK- K
URL: http://www.school.discovery.com/schrockguide
DESCRIPTION: This is a great web site for educators. It links to many different subject areas across all grade levels. If you are looking for a lesson, you will probably be able to find it here.
URL: http://www.puzzlemaker.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site allows you to create customized puzzles to use in the classroom. Although some of the puzzles worked fine and were great, a few did not work properly. This was a bit disappointing! There were some great puzzles and it’s wonderful to be able to just print out the work, rather than creating the puzzle by hand. All you do is plug in the information. For all grade levels.
URL: http://www.theideabox.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site is great for finding early elementary & quick ideas and projects for the classroom. It mainly focuses on crafts, recipes, songs and seasonal projects. It does list an idea of the day or for the week & it links to great sites like The Busy Teacher.
URL: http://www.google.com/
DESCRIPTION: a no-frills search engine, Google uses sophisticated next-generation technology to produce the right results fast with every query.
URL: http://www.teacherpathfinder.org/
Description: This is an excellent site for a variety of subject matter. There is a list of the typical subjects and links to different sites on the subjects. This site is a good reference site for teachers to find information on subjects.
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/WEB SITE: Holiday ActivitiesWEB SITE: HolidaysWEB SITE: School DiscoveryWEB SITE: The Puzzle MakerWEB SITE: The Idea BoxWEB SITE: Google (Search Engine)WEBSITE: Teacher PathfinderWEB SITE: Games
Friday, February 25, 2011
Top 10 Ways to Get Fired from Your Teaching Job...
Most teachers get into education thinking it can be a really secure job, right? Depends. Teachers have to follow rules, too. And these ten actions can get you fired faster than you think.
These actions are:
1. Lie on Your Application or Resume- most states have teacher credentials/qualifications.
2. Job Hunt at Work- while at work, focus on your students.
3. Gossip- Don't gossip about a student's abilities or another teacher's skills.
4. Taking Too Many Personal Calls- return calls before or after school hours, unless an emergency.
5. Surf the Web Excessively- use computers for lesson plans,recording grades,searching learning web sites
6. Alienate Your Coworkers- Teaching is a team sport. Don't be difficult with faculty members.
7. Forget to Double Check Grades- grades are serious business, they are recorded evidence of graded work
8. Mixing Personal and Professional Life- be friendly with parents,but not too extremely social.
9. Unbecoming Behavior- States have Professional Code of Ethics for Teachers; find out what they are.
10. Too Many Missed Days of Work- if you are sick, make sure you get a Drs. note.
These actions are:
1. Lie on Your Application or Resume- most states have teacher credentials/qualifications.
2. Job Hunt at Work- while at work, focus on your students.
3. Gossip- Don't gossip about a student's abilities or another teacher's skills.
4. Taking Too Many Personal Calls- return calls before or after school hours, unless an emergency.
5. Surf the Web Excessively- use computers for lesson plans,recording grades,searching learning web sites
6. Alienate Your Coworkers- Teaching is a team sport. Don't be difficult with faculty members.
7. Forget to Double Check Grades- grades are serious business, they are recorded evidence of graded work
8. Mixing Personal and Professional Life- be friendly with parents,but not too extremely social.
9. Unbecoming Behavior- States have Professional Code of Ethics for Teachers; find out what they are.
10. Too Many Missed Days of Work- if you are sick, make sure you get a Drs. note.
Scoring Rubric
Scoring Rubric | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Focus/Ideas | Excellent, focused description; well elaborated with quality details. | Good, focused description; elaborated with telling details | Generally focused description; some supporting details | Sometimes unfocused description; needs more supporting details | Rambling description; lacks development and details |
Organization/Paragraphs | Compelling ideas enhanced by order, structure, and transitions | Appealing order, structure, and transitions | Adequate order, structure, and some transitions to guide reader | Little direction from beginning to end; few transitions | Lacks direction, and identifiable structure; no transitions |
Voice | Writer closely involved; engaging personality | Reveals personality | Sincere voice but not fully engaged | Little writer involvement, personality | Careless writing with no feeling |
Word Choice | Vivid, precise words that create memorable pictures | Clear, interesting words to bring description to life | Language adequate; appeals to the senses | Generally limited or redundant language | Vague, dull, or misused words |
Sentences | Excellent variety of sentences; natural rhythm | Varied lengths, styles; generally smooth | Correctly constructed sentences; some variety | May have simple, awkward, or wordy sentences; little variety | Choppy; many incomplete or run-on sentences |
Rules | Excellent control; few or no errors | No serious errors to affect understanding | Reasonable control; few distracting errors | Weak Control; enough errors to affect understanding | Many errors that prevent understanding |
Distributive Property Group Work Rubric
Distributive Property Group Work Rubric
3 (A) | Student applied themselves to understanding the concept, working with the group and followed all directions. |
2 (B) | Student struggled with following directions or working with the group, but applied themselves to learning the concept. |
1 (C) | Student did not try to understand concept, but participated in group work. |
0 (F) | Student would not participate in group work, or did not follow directions and did not complete any work. |
Sunday, February 13, 2011
An example of an excellent Unit Plan (outline)
Unit Plan
Name of Unit: Investigating Joints
A. Goal or Purpose of Unit (Guiding Question):
What makes us able to move our body in many different directions?
B. Objectives to be covered in Unit (Curriculum Connection):
TLW be able accurately identify locations of joints, label joints, and list more than three uses for joints.
C. Outline of content and time placement (length of lesson, what is discussed):
Each lesson lasts approximately 45 min.
Day 1 - 45min. Joints PI
Day 2 - 45 min. (may last 2 days) Joints PV
Day 3 - 45 min. Joints PIII
Day 4 - 45 min. Joints PIV
Day 5 - 45 min. Closure
D. Activities Summary:
1. Introduction to Unit (motivation)
"Look at the bones of the squirrel or rat you found in your owl pellets? How do you think the animal was able to move? What made it possible for the animal to bend its paws or move its arms?"
2. Developmental activities listed (strategies)
Day 1
TLW participate in activity 1 of Investigating Joints. TLW have their thumb taped to their index finger. TLW attempt to complete activities without use of opposable thumb. TLW discuss experiences of activities.
Day 2
TLW participate in activity 2 of Investigating Joints. TLW have either their thumb braced or their index with the middle finger braced. TLW attempt to complete activities. TLW discuss experiences of activities while observing Prezi..
Day 3
TLW participate in activity 3 of Investigation Joints. TLW identify the types of joints found in the body. TLW color bones worksheet according to joint. TLW discuss the importance of different types of joints. TLW observe Prezi of the types of joints.
Day 4
TLW participate in activity 4 of Investigating Joints. TLW compare bones use chicken bones and some rodent bones. TLW complete Bones Observation sheet. TLW discuss their findings.
Day 5 (closure)
TLW review Investigating Joints. TLW list activities they do on a daily basis. TLW write what their life would be like if they lacked certain joints. TLW present descriptions to their group then will summarize for the class. TLW watch video on osteoarthritis if available.
3. Culminating activity for Unit (closure)
TLW describe their life with little use of our joints. "Imagine if you didn't have any
TLW describe their life with little use of our joints. "Imagine if you didn't have any
joints. Imagine if you couldn't throw a ball or run. What would your life be like?"
4. Alternative activities for ESL, SPED, Remedial, etc. (instruction, extend & refine)
TLW cut pictures from newspapers and magazines that show people in motion.
TLW cut pictures from newspapers and magazines that show people in motion.
TLW place picture in correct column of the type of joint being used
TLW create their skeleton from paper and place pins only at specific types of joints.
TLW create their skeleton from paper and place pins only at specific types of joints.
5. Supplemental activities for advanced learner (intervention, extend & refine
TLW research joint diseases and report them to the class.
TLW research joint diseases and report them to the class.
E. List of materials to be used
Day 1 - masking tape, activity sheet #9
Day 2 - masking tape, 7 in. sticks, pop-sicle sticks, sheets of newspaper, rubber bands,
plastic bags, sheets of writing paper, envelopes, removable dots, scissors, index
cards, thumb tacks, large vials with caps, popcorn, screw-cap bottles, 1 liter zip
bags, pennies, 100cm cord, jumbo paper clips, transparent tape, computer
Day 3 - Student sheets 3 and 12, hinge, bones sheet, computer
Day 4 - Student sheets 13 and 8, chicken bones, rodent bones
Day 5 - osteoarthritis video http://www.youtube.com/watch?
F. Summary of Assessment/Evaluation Activities
(Rubric attached-assessments)
Observations, activity sheets, discussions, closure activity, rubric
Observations, activity sheets, discussions, closure activity, rubric
Saturday, February 12, 2011
tweeking a lesson plan . . .
10-Instructional “mini-domains” that will tweek your Lesson Plan
and assist with classroom management:
a. SPI ‘s and Objectives “must match the lessons”
b. Motivation: 2-3 min. saying/doing something eye catching-
“BLING- BLING”… gotta get their attention!!
b. Motivation: 2-3 min. saying/doing something eye catching-
“BLING- BLING”… gotta get their attention!!
** The guiding question is NOT the Motivation **
c. Closure: it is about the student, but 1st U must ask questions
about the lesson to elicit responses from students & they in
return can tell you & each other what they’ve learned. This prompts
discussion.
d. Closure is just as important as Motivation. Have to have it!
e. Technology: implement in the instruction such as a power point
and as an extended activity: Remedial, Enrichment, and ELL- these
students whose 1st lang. in the home is not English; technology
levels the playing field for ELL learners.
f. Assessments: Teacher Observation is o.k. some of the time,
Thumbs-up is a quick assessment to use during instruction, but
You need to use something “tangible”for an assessment most
of the time. This could be a skill sheet, project, drawing, test,
Journals, writing, etc; The assessment needs to be something
that can be measured … & when it can’t be measured, that’s
where a “Rubric” comes in ☺
g. The Rubric needs to have some sort of scale where the
teacher can assess a grade or a number/points value.
h. “Item Analysis”- a way to assess which students need
additional instruction on a specific skill(s). Kindergarten uses a
Checklist which is perfect for them. However, in 1-6, you need
to make a conscious effort to do this-item analysis- with all
student assignments, (do this after completion of task).
With experienced teachers, this is a skill that comes naturally.
Ex: U give a test to the class. After students complete it, U
look over their answers and notice that 2-3 of the students
have missed items # 1, 3, 7. You look back at those items to
determine what specific skill those test items were assessing
And then you, the teacher, pulls those students aside and
RETEACHES.
This “WHOLE PROCESS” is called “item analysis”.
i. Differentiation has many facets. However, look back at the
Extended learning on (e.)Technology where you see an
explanation of having different activities for Remedial, Enrichment,
or English Language Learner- ELL. Whether you have any ELL or not,
go ahead & create lessons anyway. Why? because one day you will.
Differentiation is an activity that is different than, not necessarily part
the instruction, but compliments the lesson by addressing the different
learning styles of all students.
j. Classroom Management can be fun! Just try to implement
these suggestions EVERY DAY & see what happens.
1. Review Class Rules, Consequences, & Rewards every morning.
2. Tell the class that U R going to “catch them” being GOOD!
3. The High 5: when a class is being too talkative, start counting backwards,
from 5 (5,4,3,2,1) & by the time you get to #2, they have self-corrected
d. Closure is just as important as Motivation. Have to have it!
e. Technology: implement in the instruction such as a power point
and as an extended activity: Remedial, Enrichment, and ELL- these
students whose 1st lang. in the home is not English; technology
levels the playing field for ELL learners.
f. Assessments: Teacher Observation is o.k. some of the time,
Thumbs-up is a quick assessment to use during instruction, but
You need to use something “tangible”for an assessment most
of the time. This could be a skill sheet, project, drawing, test,
Journals, writing, etc; The assessment needs to be something
that can be measured … & when it can’t be measured, that’s
where a “Rubric” comes in ☺
g. The Rubric needs to have some sort of scale where the
teacher can assess a grade or a number/points value.
h. “Item Analysis”- a way to assess which students need
additional instruction on a specific skill(s). Kindergarten uses a
Checklist which is perfect for them. However, in 1-6, you need
to make a conscious effort to do this-item analysis- with all
student assignments, (do this after completion of task).
With experienced teachers, this is a skill that comes naturally.
Ex: U give a test to the class. After students complete it, U
look over their answers and notice that 2-3 of the students
have missed items # 1, 3, 7. You look back at those items to
determine what specific skill those test items were assessing
And then you, the teacher, pulls those students aside and
RETEACHES.
This “WHOLE PROCESS” is called “item analysis”.
i. Differentiation has many facets. However, look back at the
Extended learning on (e.)Technology where you see an
explanation of having different activities for Remedial, Enrichment,
or English Language Learner- ELL. Whether you have any ELL or not,
go ahead & create lessons anyway. Why? because one day you will.
Differentiation is an activity that is different than, not necessarily part
the instruction, but compliments the lesson by addressing the different
learning styles of all students.
j. Classroom Management can be fun! Just try to implement
these suggestions EVERY DAY & see what happens.
1. Review Class Rules, Consequences, & Rewards every morning.
2. Tell the class that U R going to “catch them” being GOOD!
3. The High 5: when a class is being too talkative, start counting backwards,
from 5 (5,4,3,2,1) & by the time you get to #2, they have self-corrected
their own behavior.
4. Magic 1,2,3- used a lot, similar to above, but shorter time.
If a student does not comply by the time I say # 2, then
When I say #3, it’s too late & the consequences begin.
5. You will find success with #3 holding up High-5 & counting
6. With grades K-2, use “ 1,2,3.…all eyes on Me !”
4. Magic 1,2,3- used a lot, similar to above, but shorter time.
If a student does not comply by the time I say # 2, then
When I say #3, it’s too late & the consequences begin.
5. You will find success with #3 holding up High-5 & counting
6. With grades K-2, use “ 1,2,3.…all eyes on Me !”
Friday, February 11, 2011
10 things to know "before" you begin your student teaching...
1. Be on time- if your school starts at 8:00 o'clock, be there at
7:30.
2. When you leave, do not be the first one out the door at 3:00
o'clock, leave at 3:30.
3. If your Mentor Teacher arrives earlier, you arrive earlier.
4. If your Mentor Teacher stays later, you stay later.
5. Give 100 % every day, the students deserve nothing less.
6. On your first day, introduce yourself to the Principal.
7. Ask your Mentor Teacher if there's anything you can do
before class begins.
8. Do NOT sit down, but monitor the perimeter of the classroom.
9. You are a role model for impressionable students. Dress
accordingly.
10. Enjoy the first day, but know you will be exhausted!
7:30.
2. When you leave, do not be the first one out the door at 3:00
o'clock, leave at 3:30.
3. If your Mentor Teacher arrives earlier, you arrive earlier.
4. If your Mentor Teacher stays later, you stay later.
5. Give 100 % every day, the students deserve nothing less.
6. On your first day, introduce yourself to the Principal.
7. Ask your Mentor Teacher if there's anything you can do
before class begins.
8. Do NOT sit down, but monitor the perimeter of the classroom.
9. You are a role model for impressionable students. Dress
accordingly.
10. Enjoy the first day, but know you will be exhausted!
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