“Boom, Clap, GRAB!!”
Fun 🤩 activity to enhance student engagement. SHARE with your team and district!
-Have fun 🙌
-Directions in video 🍿
-Enhance Review 🤩
-Finish with an info dump 📖 students write everything they remember.
#SchoolOfEngagement
I’ll trade teacher appreciation week for competitive pay nationwide, and genuine respect from the community.
You can keep your candles, hashtags, and flowers.
Classroom teachers ask between 300-400 academic questions every day, with some asking between 100-150 per hour. (ASCD 2009) Dial it back. Here’s a tool to help plan some questions & get back to quality vs quantity. Via @TeachThought#BoldSchool#edchat#MondayMotivation#k12
I’ve spent the past three days talking to all of OUR students about believing in themselves & giving their best effort on MCAP. If you believe you can do well, that is half the battle. #wcpsmd#HuskyPride#ERH
Have you ever noticed that you can accept tough feedback from one person, but if another person gave you the exact same tough feedback, it would make you feel judged or criticized? Here's my secret for giving feedback others want to hear https://t.co/r9hVt3z3gF #MTBoS
TEACHER ACTIVITY - 1,000 Dollar Pyramid
Here’s a fun way to get students talking about the content you are teaching.
🍎 Students in pairs or teams
🍎One faces the board (gives clues) the “guesser” faces the other way.
🍎Fill pyramid with content
🍎Add time limit if you want
Engagement & Creativity are formulaic.
Creative people aren’t doing things nobody has done before. They’re doing things lots of people have done before…just better.
Want to engage kids? It’s about:
-Attention
-Transition
-Lesson
-Action
-Summation
#MSC2021#BoldSchool#ATLAS
Love this analogy in Grading for Equity by Joe Feldman. Do our grading practices (long engrained in traditional practices) disengage & disempower students? #wcpsmd#edchat
Bloom’s Taxonomy’s power verbs can be used for assessment design, curriculum design, differentiating learning, and any other ‘thing’ a teacher–or student–has to do.
https://t.co/iQiHsjsS0C
"Ask yourself how much time you spend talking in your classroom. Give your voice a break, and let’s put students to work!"
How a few tweaks might make a big impact on your practice, via @AchieveTheCore: https://t.co/UIYtnX78cJ #MasteryChat#TeacherPD#edchat