#newteacheradvice
Have a #redo bucket where you put work that is not up to your expectations...don’t grade it until their meet your expectation...
You can demand excellence without perfection. Taking sub-par work is telling them that assignment doesn’t really matter
Our “Back to School” focus for this week is teachers! With that in mind, here is our "Conscious Commitment" for the week.⭐️Willing? Post “ImWillingRU”. As always, we wish you well! #iHeartCD#consciouscommitment#connectioninsteadofcorrection
Talking to a kid on a plane ✈️
Him: the worst is when they put the objective on the board
Me: Why?
Him: It shuts me down, takes away my curiosity... I don’t care anymore. Let me discover what we are learning!
Me: You are smart beyond your years
He is 14
Easy tip for better summer use of devices by your kids:
Step 1: send them outside with a device that has Slo-Mo camera
Step 2: film a bug or other creature
Step 3: write a story or make a movie about the bug
#SloMoSTEM#SummerLearning
The first is what the I've seen dubbed " Stealing the Aha." Science education should be about allowing students to wonder, to question, to explore, and to do their own sense-making of natural and human-made phenomena. #stemeducator#instructonalcoach https://t.co/vMDrinSxFx
@OfficialNGSS@AchieveInc thank you for this report! Recommendation #1 is so important. We must set high expectations and allow quality classroom instructional time & learning experiences in elem science to prepare students in middle/high school! @MichaelPoore1@lrsd