Heather McNamara

Special Education Teacher 🍎 Life Long Learner 📕

[edutopia @edutopia]

Humans are hardwired to forget. But strategies like peer-to-peer explanations, regular review, and interleaving can boost retention, research shows.

[Heather McNamara @MsMacMacMac]

It was an egg-citing day at MoES as buddy classes worked on a egg drop challenge! We ended the day watching these awesome creations fly off the roof! The best part was seeing so many friendships developing! Way to go Gators! 🐊

[Heather McNamara @MsMacMacMac]

What a great event on this beautiful day!

[Emily Nauman @FCPSMoESMedia]

A beautiful day for Relay Recess at MoES! Thanks @Staceywhitmore6 for planning this great event again this year!

[Emily Nauman @FCPSMoESMedia]

A beautiful day for Relay Recess at MoES! Thanks @Staceywhitmore6 for planning this great event again this year!

[Heather McNamara @MsMacMacMac]

Mrs. Eyler was helping students set their iReady goals today! I loved hearing her enthusiasm & pep talk at each student’s conference!

[Heather McNamara @MsMacMacMac]

Mrs. Sherman is always bringing joy wherever she goes! This group was so engaged, I just had to snap a pic! Way to go Gators!

[Heather McNamara @MsMacMacMac]

A sweet student brought me a Valentine! My next group named her “Hope”. The absolute perfect name our reading group mascot! 🥰❤️

[Heather McNamara @MsMacMacMac]

@ehoodWES_FCPS Love this! I’m putting letters on my tic-tac-toe game asap!

[Heather McNamara @MsMacMacMac]

@Mrs_Eyler @MOES_Principal It was awesome seeing them make sense of the data!!

[Heather McNamara @MsMacMacMac]

@FCPSMoESMedia thought you might like this idea!

[Liana Etling @librarianliana]

So I simply cannot wait any longer to show off our students’ Adopt-a-Shelves!!! Some are still in progress, but the ones who have created their mini book displays completely by their own design have knocked it out of the park! Photos of individual shelves in 🧵

[Sophie Bartlett @_MissieBee]

This is ideal for task design in reading or writing lessons 📝 Tried it out with the opening of The Island at the End of Everything - it automatically generates a great selection of vocab activities, has word level analysis… I could play around with it for ages!

[Heather McNamara @MsMacMacMac]

@huether_cara @jill_ohlhoff @MonocacyElem So fun!!

[Gerry🧠🌱 @gerrydiamond71]

If you treat behaviour as communication, there lies the opportunity for relationship to grow.🧠🌱

[Heather McNamara @MsMacMacMac]

When you’re out of time, but want to finish your book! “Mrs. Mac, it’s like my brain just knows the words now!”😍 📚

[Heather McNamara @MsMacMacMac]

So excited to try this with my students next week!

[Melanie Brethour @melbrethour]

We are brain 🧠 changers "with our instructional choices" as Judi Dodson said. Orthographic mapping is the process "the formation of letter-sound connections to bond the spellings, pronunciations & meanings of specific words in memory." @ReadingRockets This is a great activity!

[Heather McNamara @MsMacMacMac]

Oh yay, I love it!! I bet it’s filled with signatures by the end of the week!

[Chrissy Eyler @Mrs_Eyler]

Some of Ms. Meadows' 3rd graders joined the Vocabulary Hall of Fame this week! Sign the vocab card when you use that word to explain your thinking accurately. Thanks for the idea @MsMacMacMac! @MOES_Principal #moesmath #oneteamonegoal

[Heather McNamara @MsMacMacMac]

“Mrs. Mac, there are a lot of scarecrows here today!”

[Heather McNamara @MsMacMacMac]

I’m glad I was able to attend! It’s exciting to have strategies/ideas to share with my team & immediately put into practice. Would definitely recommend!!

[Natalie Wexler @natwexler]

Why should teachers attend an event where they learn about cognitive science?

It can make their jobs easier--& they didn't learn this stuff in ed school.

And--like #researchFRED last weekend--it's fun. @ClassroomWonder @researchED_US

More in my post:

https://t.co/QM8vWyg9pm

[Tom Sherrington @teacherhead]

The #1 problem/weakness in teaching and how to address it. https://t.co/qxsZlTaiji Detailed post now has a brilliant info graphic from @olicav - download from the post.