Loren Vandivere

Language Arts teacher at Benton Middle in PWCS, VA. Bike shop guy. Eater of books.

[Elizabeth Vaughan ES @VNESwildcats]

Our Title I Math Teacher, Mrs. Vandivere, makes it her goal to build positive relationships with all of her students. With those huge smiles, you wouldn’t even know these two are talking math! #ForTheLoveOfLearning #levELLingup

[Teacher2Teacher @teacher2teacher]

"With just a pen and paper, you can track classroom discussions to ensure all voices are being heard."

Here's how:

https://t.co/yykDpH5v3e

[Loren Vandivere @MisterVee]

@BabautaBarb Dorky version of Dr. Strange.

[Loren Vandivere @MisterVee]

Any writing teacher will tell you that giving feedback is both one of the most powerful and most taxing parts of their job. Rubrics are supposed to simplify the process, but they have always given me a headache. I'm glad I'm not alone in wishing them gone.

[Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn]

This teacher finally stopped using rubrics after realizing that trying to tweak them was a fool's errand. Once she looked at how "students as *people* interact with them," she saw that rubrics inherently "make education less human": https://t.co/R9xndju9So

[Jason Reynolds News @JasonReynolds83]

TEXAS…while supplies last! 🤷🏾‍♂️ HAPPY GIVING TUESDAY, and screw censorship and banning!

[Loren Vandivere @MisterVee]

@bethhill2829 @mmcknight32 I concur with the message, but there's a typo in the chart: "Conversations is allowed."

[Loren Vandivere @MisterVee]

My class of junior detectives will be a group of grizzled, argument-writing veterans in no time.

[Loren Vandivere @MisterVee]

Friday mornings are alright.

[Loren Vandivere @MisterVee]

"Sprint towards compassion. Crawl towards judgment."

I heard @JasonReynolds83 say this, among other true things, in an interview yesterday. This is what our students need (and have always needed).

[Loren Vandivere @MisterVee]

@mardieteach @pernilleripp https://t.co/NrwrFfmQEq Here's the classroom crime scene I made last year for virtual teaching.

[Loren Vandivere @MisterVee]

@mardieteach @pernilleripp We start with a scene staged in the classroom and then move to cartoons. Yes to the Hillocks. MEL-Con paragraphs work really well in this context, too.

[Loren Vandivere @MisterVee]

@pernilleripp My students have had success with writing reports on their analyses of crime scenes. It allows evidence to be something concrete. Then we have a scaffold for "proving" our inferences in literature. Bonus: It's super fun.

[Kelly Gallagher @KellyGToGo]

Interesting idea: "One of my best writing teachers used to ask her class, after finishing a novel, to go back and read the first paragraph for the ways in which it predicted the rest of the text, or in the most skillful cases, taught us to read it."
https://t.co/pylfRxCShc

[Loren Vandivere @MisterVee]

@teacher2teacher This is wonderful, but there is a your/ you're error in the anchor chart.

[Brian Aspinall @mraspinall]

When kids cheat on assignments it is because they have been taught that grades outweigh the importance of knowing things.

We need to fix this.

#CodeBreaker

[Loren Vandivere @MisterVee]

@BabautaBarb @BentonMSCougars @MrTomRad My colleague used your idea, too. Thanks!

[Loren Vandivere @MisterVee]

Stole an idea from @MrTomRad's Edutopia article and gave over some of our physical space to my students' identities with a "one word" project. Read his article here: https://t.co/6fNGsEYjMG

[Loren Vandivere @MisterVee]

Have you ever asked someone what kind of music they like, and the person said, "Oh. I don't like music?" By the end of the year, I hope for you that hearing, "Oh. I don't like reading," feels just as weird.

[Loren Vandivere @MisterVee]

@CajunMSTeacher To my students? Heck no. To students I am a fellow traveler. I don't care what adults think of me.