Tuesday, August 26, 2014
On being wrong
I really don't know what to write. I mean it happened once before, but it was so long ago that I hardly remember.
Friday, August 22, 2014
Teacher Websites
This website provides whole lesson plans (some of which cover multiple days) that teach Common Core standards conceptually and typically with hands-on and real-world problems. These lessons are high quality and tend to lead to high student engagement. They also include pre- and post- assessments that allow you to tailor the material to meet the needs of your students and also help you students to see the progress they made over the course of the lesson.
This website has fun timers for using in the classroom like a candle burning down, a rocket launching, or runners racing.
This website is not as fun as the above website, but it has a nice, large timer that can be easily displayed.
Class dojo is a behavior management tool that many teachers use. It allows you to create an avatar for each student and then keep track of their positive and negative behavior. It can be displayed during class or you can use it to send home weekly reports to parents about their child's behavioral progress. I tried this for about a week in my classroom during my first year of teaching, but did not like it. Other teachers at my school, however, swear by it.
This is the website that has New York's common core curriculum. It is a great resource that can help you as a teacher know how to best teach the material to your students (e.g., how to break down standards into daily objectives). It also has handouts that you can give to students.
http://www.illustrativemathematics.org
This website has tasks that help students apply math in real-world settings and often combine multiple objectives into rich problems. These are great for building problem-solving skills in students and can be modified for exploration activities.
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/student-opinion/
The New York Times Student Opinion blog is a good resource to use to build relationships with your students and to get them thinking about the world around them. It is also a good resource to get your students to develop critical thinking skills as they critically consume new media resources. I used it to help my students with their writing skills because they would write a short paragraph as a response to the questions from this blog each day.
http://www.learnzillion.com
This website has videos that are aligned to common core standards. If students watch the videos that align with our lessons and take notes following Learn Zillion's note-taking template, I give them extra credit. I also use this videos to help me break down standards into daily objectives. Occasionally I give students time to watch videos on the iPads or laptops during class and practice taking independent notes.
This website allows you to give students assignments and then the website grades the material and gives you a report on student scores.
This is the website that I told you about where teachers upload lesson plans and lesson materials.
You've probably heard of this website, but a new feature they have is practice exercises that students can complete on laptops or iPads in class if you have them.
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