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Its August! Which means its back to school time. I would like to do my book a month for my students this year. Please consider giving any amount to help put books in kids' hands. They love being surprised every month with a book! 😍
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A4: bringing in someone who creates games, tests them or something in that field to talk to students about the importance of what they are doing #PBLChat

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A3: kids applied their learning to something they could use and have fun with. Some kids even went home and made a second game. #pblchat

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A2: students created a design, list of materials needed, built the game and tested it out. If it didn't work they had to revise the game. #PBLChat

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A1: kids had to create an arcade game using at least one type of motion after learning about motion during that unit of study. #PBLChat

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I'm Alaina and I'm a 1st grade teacher in Newport News, VA #PBLChat

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A7: I would take away standardized tests in its current form and also eliminate all of the "extras" put on teachers and just let them love on kids and teach. #learnlap

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Q5: being the go to person for so many people can sometimes take away from me having time to work on something new for my own class #learnlap

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A4: I want to get our guidance department to give a PD to help our team understand strategies they teach our students when they come to them with their problems so that we can also help them in the classroom. #learnlap

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Q3: it's actually spending more time with students emotional needs and connecting with them outside of school. #learnlap

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A2: of course there were many failures. My biggest one is time management for our STEM challenges our school does. It was all about giving the kids enough time to do them. #learnlap

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A1: I introduced a new way to get my first graders to understand what they were learning (the learning target). They actually were intrigued to find out about what we were learning about. #learnlap

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#learnlap I'm Alaina. I'm a first grade teacher in VA. I'm from Ohio and loved going to the Outer Banks as a kid.

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A3: it would be helpful if there were on the job training. Show novice teachers in the classroom with teachers how it works and what it can do for their students. #formativechat

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Q2: for me it's just providing hands on learning time to figure it out and how to use it with my students. #formativechat

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Q1: to some educators AI is very new and they don't know much about it. Also because AI is evolving so quickly it's hard for the education field to keep up. #formativechat

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Hello. #formativechat I'm a 1st grade teacher in Newport News, VA

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Bubbles has us off to a good start this summer. Some gardening and a water fight. #dsaluckyduck

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@ScottRRocco One thing I want to work on for next year is to keep learning engaging so that there are less disruptions from students who have a difficult time focusing and staying in the lesson.

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@gtchatmod Final thought: I have learned about some new titles to introduce with my gifted kiddos that they may be able to connect with. Thank you for sharing.