“[Self efficacy] begins with helping the student achieve small, incremental success on important tasks. [The brain] is happiest when it is making progress toward solving the problem, figuring out the pattern, or completing the task.”
To make my comeback to Twitter Education World, I will be posting quotes I found through my summer learning. First, I’ve been reading Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by @Ready4rigor
“We each must do the ‘inside-out’ work required: developing the right mindset, engaging in self-reflection, checking our implicit biases, practicing social-emotional awareness, and holding an inquiry stance regarding the impact of our interactions on students.”
Let’s just say our first official Makerspace engineering project was difficult but SWEET! Challenge: build a den for a polar bear. #LomaLearns@LomaVerdeSchool
My friend, who is working on his Masters in CS at UCSD, Skyped into my classroom today to answer questions about CS and coding. The students loved learning that coding is basically being “the boss of the computer” #HourofCode#LomaLearns@LomaVerdeSchool
Teachers had so much fun learning about the importance of knowing our interests and how to foster our students interests in the classroom! #CVESD#LomaLearns@LomaVerdeSchool
Great job to @MsLeeTeachesMe and her 3rd graders (my old students 😭) on awesome PowerPoint presentations about animals! My second graders learned a lot! #LomaLearns
Making our our place value mats and using the base ten blocks to represent numbers was so powerful! Going to get them laminated so they can eventually draw on it. #kinestheticlearners#lomalearns@LomaVerdeSchool
I tried my first ever CGI problem to open up our school year! Blown away by the mathematical thinking from my third graders at the BOY!!! The following day, my students were able to connect their number talk with this story problem. It was AMAZING! #lomalearns#CGI