4 Strategies To Create A Culture of Success In Middle School If you’ve ever taught middle school, you know it can be challenging. But you also know what a special place being in the middle can be. Middle schoolers enjoy laughter. Teaching Channel, in partnership with Educate Texas, is excited to launch a new video series: Creating Success in Middle School. 1. Middle school students thrive on relationships with each other, and — believe it or not — even with teachers. When pairing and grouping students, Jeremy uses formative and summative assessments to make decisions, but he also intentionally groups students with their friends. 2. Teaching Channel recently launched two new videos that show teachers using growth mindset practices with their elementary students. 3. Classroom routines can help the sometimes-frantic middle schooler feel safe and comfortable. Down the hall at KIPP Truth Academy, Brittany Williams uses lab stations to engage her students in an exploration of energy transformations. 4.
Pre Algebra 101 1.4 CEUs :: 14 Contact Hours :: Self-Paced :: Instructor-Led :: 6 Month Subscription An understanding of algebra is a foundational skill to virtually all topics in higher-level mathematics, and it is useful in science, statistics, accounting, and numerous other professional and academic areas. This course builds a bridge between simple whole-number arithmetic operations, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and algebra. This course begins by reviewing the basic arithmetic operations and their mutual relationships, and it then goes on to develop an understanding of fractions and how to perform operations on them. This course shows how exponents and roots are related, as well as how these are related to multiplication and division. This course also describes how to graph algebraic relations and how to solve simple linear equations.
Best Books for Middle Schoolers: From Our Wonderful Middle School Librarian! My oldest daughter is lucky in that she has the best Middle School librarian who really cares about finding books that make kids excited to read. He posted this list on our school eNewsletter which is how I found it. I think that by Middle School, students pretty have a good sense of the types of chapter books that they like to read so his list, by genre, is particularly helpful. His list includes: Adventure/Mystery, Realistic Fiction, Humorous, Historical Fiction, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Horror/Supernatural, Science Fiction, Biographies/Non-Fiction, and Poetry. There is something for any tween or teen on his list! What is your tween/teen enjoying? Adventure/Mystery The Girl Is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines Haunting Violet by Alyxandra Harvey Death Cloud by Andrew Lane Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick Tunnel Vision by Susan Shaw The Secret of ROVER by Rachel Wildavsky To buy or examine more closely any book from Amazon, please click on image of book. Realistic Fiction Humorous Historical Fiction
Why Facebook is Blue: The Science of Colors in Marketing via Buffer Why is Facebook blue? According to The New Yorker, the reason is simple. It’s because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind. This means that blue is the color Mark can see the best. “Blue is the richest color for me I can see all of blue.” Not highly scientific right? After all, the visual sense is the strongest developed one in most human beings. So how do colors really affect us and what is the science of colors in marketing really? First: Can you recognize the online brands just based on color? Before we dive into the research, here are some awesome experiments that show you how powerful color alone really is. Example 1 (easy): Example 2 (easy): Example 3 (medium): Example 4 (hard): These awesome examples from Youtube designer Marc Hemeon, I think show the real power of colors more than any study could. How many were you able to guess? Which colors trigger which feeling for us? Being completely conscious about what color triggers us to think in which way isn’t always obvious.
- Teachers, leaders, and learners can podcast right from their phones! 0 Comments March 15, 2012 By: Lisa Nielsen Mar 15 Written by: 3/15/2012 3:20 AM ShareThis In the busy school day many teachers and leaders don’t feel their schedules allow for the complexities of the equipment and set up necessary for podcasting. Phone casting provides the ability to easily create and capture an audio broadcast from your phone that can be published and shared. So how might administrators, teachers, and students use iPadio to enrich leading, teaching, and learning? Students At the start of the year, teachers can reach out to their class and ask them to make an “All About Me” phone cast. For more ideas about effective ways to use cell phones for learning, including research-based strategies, lessons, and more order Teaching Generation Text. Disclaimer: The information shared here is strictly that of the author and does not reflect the opinions or endorsement of her employer.
Professional blog | 21st Century Educator Recently I noticed that Google forms has an option to add multiple pages to a form, and to go to pages based on the responses to multiple choice questions added to each page. It occurred to me that an immediate use of this would be to construct a "choose your own adventure" story which I always loved reading when I was a student. The basic idea is, the students construct a story where the next page in the story depends on a decision made by the person reading the story. Generally in one of these books the reader flips to a different page depending on their decision and so create their own version of the story. To recreate this in Google docs, you have to first create a standard Google form. While constructing your form, you are going to alternate between adding page breaks and adding multiple choice questions. The crux of what makes this work is the ability to add pages, and the ability of a multiple choice question to "Go to page based on answer."
27 Teacher Actions That Help Promote Valid Assessment Data Via TeachThought There is often talk about assessment–its forms, frequency, and the integration of gleaned data to revise planned instruction. Formative versus assessment, rigor, and the evasive nature of understanding are also areas for exploration. But rarely is there discussion about the kinds of things teachers can do–literal actions and concrete strategies–to help streamline the assessment process, and hopefully produce purer results you can trust. In the infographic below, Mia MacMeekin offers her now familiar “27 ways” format, this time teacher actions that are conducive to more valid assessment results–and thus data you can trust. As with any list, some are better than others, but a few stand out: Evaluate Having the student evaluate the format helps bring them closer to the actual process of learning Seconds Or thirds, fourths, and fifths. Match Align assessment forms so that the form isn’t the barrier. Limit & Relax This is especially true for struggling readers and younger students.
Answers Grockit Answers is just-in-time Q&A for video lectures. In Grockit Answers, interactions happen around video lectures, and participants ask and answer questions about specific points in the lecture. Since every question is attached to a specific point in time in the video, Grockit Answers displays a question and its answers at the point in the lecture that they are most relevant. Weekend Website #91: 16 Word Study Websites for 2nd Grade Every Friday, I’ll send you a wonderful website (or more) that my classes and my parents love. I think you’ll find they’ll be a favorite of your students as they are of mine. Here’s a list of 16 Word Study websites for 2nd Grade. I’ve used all of these in my classroom. Usually, I create a ‘box of links’ on the internet start page and put them all there, let students pick. To sign up for Weekend Websites delivered to your email, click Weekend Websites here. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. Follow me Like this: Like Loading...
What Meaningful Reflection On Student Work Can Do for Learning Via MindShift The following excerpt is from “Authentic Learning in the Digital Age: Engaging Students Through Inquiry,” by Larissa Pahomov. This excerpt is from the chapter entitled “Making Reflection Relevant.” Characteristics of Meaningful Reflection For student reflection to be meaningful, it must be metacognitive, applicable, and shared with others. Metacognitive Although it’s something of a buzz word, “metacognition” is a state of mind that can be useful for all the core values presented in this book. By sharing their reflections on their academic work, students can both advise and seek help from their peers. When children are first learning to reflect on their work, their educators use simple prompts to get them thinking: Do you like what you made? Of course, there’s a danger of this metacognition turning into a kind of feedback loop: Am I reflecting adequately on my reflection? ➤ The digital connection. Applicable ➤ The digital connection. Shared ➤ The digital connection.