Angela Watson offers simple, but important advice to be a great teacher. Be intentional. Be intentional with your time, your energy, your lessons, and your assessments. @IEwellEldridge@Catlin_Tucker @UCRGSOE #EDUC344
Goal setting is an important set of skills that allows students to have agency in their education, builds motivation and engagement, and creates paths to success for future endeavors. An important part of education is teaching our students strategies for how to learn and succeed.
The first step in ensuring all students have equitable access to content standards is through the use of formative assessments. From there, we can determine how best to support our students through different strategies in instruction, engagement, and use of tools.
...then we are able to support those students where they are at. I am in love with this term, internal accountability, because it infers wanting to provide equity as a personal desire rather than a school mandate. @cultofpedagogy@PedroANoguera@IEwellEldridge @UCRGSOE #EDUC344C
Equitable education is within our practices and not our curriculum. I think the greatest tool we have in creating equitable education is relationships. When we invest the time to know our students, their strengths and needs, their home lives and cultures...
Through online and hybrid learning, it seems science has unfortunately taken a back seat. These effects seems detrimental when considering the concept of spiraling upwards. To continue building the foundations, it is important to be creative in engaging students in meaningful
We had the pleasure of @historysandoval talking with us tonight. We were spoiled with ideas, resources, and blended learning techniques that we can use to make teaching HSS fun, engaging, and most importantly socially conscientious. Thank you again! @IEwellEldridge#EDUC344C
We get more bang for out buck by teaching HSS through cross-content instruction and engraining HSS topics into the classroom culture and routines. @IEwellEldridge@historysandoval @UCRGSOE #EDUC344C
By teaching history and social studies, we are ensuring that we are raising a generation of rational and critical thinkers and engaged participants in democracy.
@IEwellEldridge @UCRGSOE I would love more practice with behavioral engagement! I've noticed that I love for students to have opportunities to talk and share their ideas. However, I am realizing that this can lead to disorganization of discussions and off topic conversations.
1/3 It wasn't Shakespeare, rather John T. Almarode that asked "Engaged or Not Engaged?" that is the question. When considering the three types of engagement, behavioral, emotional, and cognitive, I find myself truly invested in emotional engagement. However, Almarode has made...
2/3 the case that to create a learning environment in which students thrive, as educators we need to find a healthy balance of the three. By presenting lessons, strategies, and manipulatives which works towards engaging students behaviorally, emotionally, and cognitively we...