Andrew Rodriguez

A passionate English language teacher and travel aficionado trying to be a better teacher.

[Steplab @Steplab_co]

🎉 Steplab Summer Reads - Giveaway #4

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📖 The Scaffolding Effect by @MrsBallAP and @lamb_heart_tea
📚 Steplab whitepapers
🎁 Steplab insulated water bottle, notepad and pen

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[Steplab @Steplab_co]

🎉 Steplab Summer Reads - Giveaway #1

Win:
📖 Responsive Coaching by @Josh_CPD
📚 Steplab whitepapers
☕ A Steplab mug
🖊️ A notepad and pen

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[TeachThought @TeachThought]

A 3-Dimensional Model Of Bloom's Taxonomy - https://t.co/epRtrpnX2q

"Each colored block has an example of a learning objective corresponding with each combination of the cognitive process and knowledge dimensions."

[Andrew Rodriguez @andrewrod84]

Planning for Success – Using Success Criteria https://t.co/uKWiHwDqya

[Student Achievement Partners @learnwithSAP]

The New York Times has created some great lessons and prompts for teaching narrative writing as a part of a seven-unit writing curriculum series. Check out their content: https://t.co/T5EVcxX3qS #engchat #writingtips #elachat

[Marian Dorsey @MissMarianMack]

One of my favorite questions to ask at the end of the assessment is “What did you learn that wasn’t on this assessment?” Or “What do you wish the assessment had asked you about?”

[Jay McTighe @jaymctighe]

A worthwhile video to view at the start of a new school year.
Take four minutes and watch this! Thanks to the Atlanta Speech School for producing this.
https://t.co/b1a6waA00O

[Andrew Rodriguez @andrewrod84]

A great resource!

[TeachThought @TeachThought]

60 Non-Threatening Formative Assessment Techniques https://t.co/luMhUX7s3p

[Cognia @CogniaOrg]

The secret to classroom management—no matter where you teach. @WeAreTeachers https://t.co/vT6ganh39B

[Andrew Rodriguez @andrewrod84]

This article gives some great advice on how to make retests more effective and efficient for both teachers and students-- something I have struggled with Allowing Test Retakes—Without Getting Gamed https://t.co/uggw6i8Ivz

[TeachThought @TeachThought]

60 Non-Threatening Formative Assessment Techniques https://t.co/luMhUX7s3p

[Andrew Rodriguez @andrewrod84]

Excellent explanation of one of my favorite teaching strategies

[Visible Learning @VisibleLearning]

The jigsaw methods have an effect size of 1.20! Here's a great article that explains what it is, and offers a 6-step process to running a jigsaw activity in your classroom: https://t.co/CYynMC7Pyp #Visiblelearning

[Andrew Rodriguez @andrewrod84]

More Metacognition Please https://t.co/OsXt8e5SgV

[edutopia @edutopia]

Yes, metacognition can be taught. Seven great questions to get students thinking about thinking.

[Todd Finley, PhD @finleyt]

24 Exit Ticket Questions! - Brain Blast

#k12 #formativeassessment

[Andrew Rodriguez @andrewrod84]

This post by @cultofpedagogy is a great place for me to learn to explicitly teach note-taking https://t.co/Ce1dBJTKyY

[Jay McTighe @jaymctighe]

Here is a great blog post from Judy Willis, M.D. Judy is a board certified neurologist and a K-12 teacher for 10 years. She really understands learning and the brain! She describes the value of applying learning in multiple contexts –
https://t.co/sAG5kGnx46

[Cult of Pedagogy @cultofpedagogy]

When We All Teach Text Structures, Everyone Wins
https://t.co/4IYOke8jvF
#edchat #crosscurricular #ELAchat #deeperlearning #teaching

[Andrew Rodriguez @andrewrod84]

Great sentence stems to promote a student-centered classroom discussions

[TeachThought @TeachThought]

26 Sentence Stems For Higher-Level Conversation In The Classroom
https://t.co/Re3EVb8WOO

[Andrew Rodriguez @andrewrod84]

@YingChe77801436 It is think-pair-share. It is one of my favorite teaching strategies. It is flexible and needs hardly any preparation

[Andrew Rodriguez @andrewrod84]

A3: I now plan all lessons by trying to make them more student centered. I realized even short direct instruction can be changed to a T-P-S or jigsaw. Also trying to give more student choice #tncohort