Meg Steele Barker

Meg Steele Barker - I'm an educator looking to tap social media for classroom inspiration and insight - IRL (In Real LIFE)

[Meg Steele Barker @teaching_irl]

Thank you to @mikeartell who in a prep call for his visit next week, told 4 penitent kiddos who were w me during their lunch/recess, “I was a class clown too. If you can learn to reign it in, it becomes a superpower.” Candid advice from a caring adult. #edchat #kidsdeserveit

[Meg Steele Barker @teaching_irl]

Oh @ohmaipie when you were writing #piluofthewoods was this the kind of reaction you dreamed of? It made my day as a librarian. : ) #mgbooks #mgbookchat #iteach4th

[Meg Steele Barker @teaching_irl]

Finished it! (Surpassing my goal!)

[Meg Steele Barker @teaching_irl]

Okay now getting back to (a student grabbed it from me after I had started) #theeleventhtrade by @alyssa__holly on about page 60 and it is really picking up! If you can’t tell I’m tackling the books on the @MSBA_Maine list! #MGReadathon hope to get to the 6th trade by 12am ET!

[Meg Steele Barker @teaching_irl]

It’s still today somewhere and I’m finished! Even took a break to see #LittleWomenMovie and found many parallels between Drest and Jo March. Family vs. Career, childhood to adulthood, vexing boys of ambiguous relationship and sibling love! #MGReadathon

[Meg Steele Barker @teaching_irl]

Hope to make my way through at least 3 more books for #mgreadathon and loving @dianemagras #madwolfsdaughter on page 102 and hope to finish today!

[Meg Steele Barker @teaching_irl]

Q2 popular so far this year are Minecraft, Maeve, mermaids, spooky stories, babysitters club, amulet #shelfietalk

[Meg Steele Barker @teaching_irl]

Q1 I pretty much only read middle grades all from the @MSBA_Maine list and have loved Journey of the Pale Bear #shelfietalk

[Meg Steele Barker @teaching_irl]

Meg Barker 3-5 Librarian Bath, Maine #shelfietalk

[Meg Steele Barker @teaching_irl]

I’m pretty excited about our library “choice board” - I’m all about the verbs. #MGBookChat #elementary #iteach3rd #iteach4th #iteach5th #BackToSchool

[Meg Steele Barker @teaching_irl]

Couple of good #BacktoSchool reads for teachers and parents in today’s @nytimes #sundayreview

[Meg Steele Barker @teaching_irl]

I made a manifesto - the non-negotiable values for our #Elementary #library I can lt@wait to share with students on Tuesday!

[Jarrett Lerner @Jarrett_Lerner]

To celebrate being just ONE WEEK away from the release of Revenge of the EngiNerds, I’m giving away a copy of my Kids Need Books of All Kinds poster!

To enter to win it, just RT this tweet!

[Meg Steele Barker @teaching_irl]

This is how advanced one of our fourth graders is on her @Typing_com lessons! Are you not impressed? She is A-mazing! #iteachfourth

[Meg Steele Barker @teaching_irl]

@AlanGratz two drawing inspired by today’s reading.

[Meg Steele Barker @teaching_irl]

@AlanGratz so many amazing questions from students -4th graders in midcoast Maine- as we read Refugee. A favorite today: “When was World War 3?” (After Id put dates of 1 & 2 up). Floored me. We agreed it was up to all of us to make sure the answer was NEVER.

[Meg Steele Barker @teaching_irl]

@dailystem @Jarrett_Lerner Thank you both! Used one today as a choice while reading @AlanGratz book Refugee. Here is what one 4th grade girl did!

[Meg Steele Barker @teaching_irl]

A2: Letting students run with projects that interest them as opposed to sticking to my scope and sequence AND creating some kind of showcase that allows their homeroom teachers to see what they can do with tech and together brainstorm ways to make it cross curricular. #ditchbook

[Meg Steele Barker @teaching_irl]

Q1 - my friends and I did a pretty effective exercise on NYE - we came up with resolutions by discrete category - eg instead of "being healthy" we came up w a resolution specifically about fruits or vegetables. Forced you to focus=interesting and doable. #ditchbook