Pump Students Up with Digital Icebreakers “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” by Plato Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! Throughout my teaching years, I’ve struggled with getting my students or trainees to readily participate. Learners are shy about exposing themselves to peers, especially if they do not know them well. Icebreakers Here are a few of the ideas I talked about during my presentation: Mobile Show and Tell– Divide students into small groups (3 to 5 students). Challenge: Try any of these icebreakers with your students to motivate them to share throughout the year.
Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom (Hack Learning Series) (Volume 13): Shelly Sanchez Terrell: 9780998570549: Amazon.com: Books Thinking SAMR | Mr. C's SharesEase I always teach lessons with the SAMR model in mind, but often wonder if I am truly interrupting the model correctly. After watching a math lesson evolve with the use of technology I put together the following model, based on my understanding of SAMR. Below my model is my explanation. For reference, I’ve included Dr. I believe that SAMR is still widely misunderstood and not used with consistency. Like this: Like Loading... Resources for short courses Onestopenglish is packed with hundreds of bright ideas for your short course, holiday or summer school programme. Take the stress out of preparing for each new set of students with this list of resources that's guaranteed to keep things fun, active and interesting! We've picked out a selection of resources that we think are perfect for engaging students over a short or intensive English programme. If you're not already a Staff Room member, we've included a sneak preview of our subscription resources. Listening skills | Young learners | Teenagers | CLIL | Skills | Culture | Grammar and vocabulary | News lessons | Teaching with minimal resources Listening skills Check out our Listening skills section for access to over 200 listening resources, including our series of mini-plays on British culture, authentic interviews in our 'Live from ...' series, original drama with the onestopenglish soap opera, The Road Less Travelled and a selection of serialized Macmillan Readers at all levels. Skills
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19Pencils - Quick and Easy Tools for Learning. Quizzes, Games, Websites and More! Learning to Go: Lesson Ideas for Teaching with Mobile Devices, Cell Phones, and BYOT eBook: Shelly Sanchez Terrell, John Spencer: Kindle Store ESL Teacher Resources, Job Boards, and Worksheets 10+ Getting to Know You Activities for Teens & Adults “It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone.” ~ Milton Olson If you like these ideas, take one of my courses or check out my books. Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com! Many of us are beginning new classes with new learners. Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning, The 30 Goals Challenge, or Learning to Go. Getting to Know You Activities 1. Each student tells a favorite food, place of travel, or whatever you choose to have them answer.The students record these answers or write them on a piece of paper. 2. Divide the class into 2 rows and seat them across from each other. 3. Students divide into small groups of 3 to 5Students choose pictures from their mobile devicesThey explain the meaning behind the picture 4. 5. Divide the class in a circle or have them sit on pillows on the floor.Students tell truths and a lie about themselves.The other students guess which is the lie. 6. 7.
Edunators - Helping Teachers Overcome Obstacles and Focus on Learning - Lesson Planning Using The Four Critical Questions Details Written by Mark Clements If your school operates as a Professional Learning Community, chances are you’re very familiar with the Four Critical Questions originally developed by Rick DuFour. They’re essential whenever first starting a collaborative team in a school and well worth reviewing from time to time as you carry on your work. However, what if we re-imagined these questions through the eyes of our students? 1. Spend some time making sure students understand what it is they’re trying to learn. Instead of asking a student “What are you working on?” 2. Teachers and administrators often come at this question from the perspective of “How will we know…” which is certainly talking about assessment, both formative and summative. Consider also that this is a GREAT time to Differentiate Instruction. 3. Do your students get a second chance? 4.
Cultivate Relationships Posted by Shelly Terrell on Friday, November 16th 2012 Goal 21: Cultivate Relationships of The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators! Click the link to find out more about the 30 Goals Challenge for Educators! “You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.” ~ Galileo Classrooms are communities. For goal 21, I would like to encourage you to try one getting to know you activity with your students. Short-term- Have your students participate in at least one getting-to-know you activity. Long-term- Try incorporating team building games and exercises as well as icebreakers in your curriculum regularly. Resources Important News Lisa Dabbs and I have decided to change the hashtag to #30GoalsEduWe are focusing on 1 to 2 goals a week.Check out my Pinterests for other posts with this goal or ask me to add yours! Challenge: Cultivate relationships in your classroom by having students participate in getting to know you activities.
Sketchnote Lessons Want to get a notification whenever I post a new sketchnote lesson (usually Thursday mornings)? You can sign up for e-mail updates: in your feed reader. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, I'd love to hear from you. Comment on the individual items or in the comment space below. Sketchnote Lesson: Metaphors A fun way to build your visual vocabulary is to explore metaphors and clichés. Here’s a sampler of metaphors based on an exercise I did in the Rockstar Scribe class. The Internet has lots of collections of cliches and figures of speech. Visual thinking: build your visual library I’ve written about my process for breaking down inspiring sketchnotes and building a visual dictionary/thesaurus. And here’s the actual library as an Evernote shared notebook. This is what it looks like in Evernote: Enjoy! Drawing practice: Daily drawing Here are some things I’ve been thinking about: Do you sketch your thoughts? Enjoy! Like this? 1. 2. 3.