Wearing masks is likely going to be in our lives for a tad longer. Learn how students can sharpen their emotional literacy skills by identifying different feelings—even when faces are behind masks.
Great start to the week: @JonGordon11 chats with EASD students in grades 5-6 today. His answers to students' questions are met with ongoing applause as he encourages students to, "Do the work. Produce great things. Give your best, and as you do over time, you will build success!"
"In moments when students are not understanding, we often find ourselves trying to explain more clearly...Instead of jumping in to show the way, provide the tools and time to encourage cognitive struggle to get students doing more..." (via @edutopia) https://t.co/nxCFQKnN6p
This image shows how we need to help make the shift from "school learning" to "actual learning"! Goal Setting -- make your classroom a place that students can't wait to get to. @gcouros#InnovateInsidetheBox
The final product should always be their best work and thinking. Meaningful, timely feedback along the way encourages student ownership of their learning.
"I recognized that instead of putting 90 percent of my energy into assessing and giving #feedback on a finished product, I need to put that 90 percent of my energy into giving them feedback as they work." -- @Catlin_Tucker#edchat#NCTE19 https://t.co/LVi73HFEBS @callmeKi
“The real teaching is not in the grading, it’s in the feedback.” “The problems in education are solvable but we are focused on the wrong things.” Pedro Noguera is amazing. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #iNACOL19#aurora19
Modern Tech Tools to build students' critical thinking and metacognition skills leads to a powerful way for students to demonstrate their evidence of learning.
📖 Have you heard about the #FirstChapterFriday literacy initiative? Here’s how it (briefly) works:
1⃣ teacher reads the first chapter of a book to their students
2⃣ students want to know what happens next
3⃣ students borrow the book + finish reading it
4⃣ repeat every Friday
Teachers continuously look for ways to improve their practice - They never stop learning. No two years are ever the same. That's the best thing about this profession!
Challenge Accepted! Can you capture the essential concept of a book and encourage someone else to read it using only 15 words? 6th graders on the Red Team did exactly that! Impressive work!! @GoMounts@EIMSMounts
Research: Teachers are reporting that relationships with students are beginning to change because they are now spending more time engaging in one-to-one conversations. https://t.co/7Ji4zONUHM via @TeacherToolkit
This resource from @ASCD is such a great example of how literacy changes according to the subject context. What does it mean to Write Like A Scientist/Geographer/Artist...