Title 1 School How to Motivate!!! PLEASE READ!!! It's more than just motivating. Buttercup53 , Sixth grade social studies teacher in Texas Posted 11/10/2012 8:12AM | Last Commented 06/11/2014 7:01PM 2604 Views Hi, My name is Linda and I've been teaching at a sixth grade campus for eleven years now. I make sure that I have procedures set up at the beginning of the year, but it seems like things just fall apart pretty fast. We now have a new curriculum that was bought from another district and I now found out that that district is looking for a new curriculum.
Goal: 12 Resources for Giving Constructive Feedback Posted by Shelly Terrell on Saturday, January 23rd 2010 Part of the Goals 2010 Challenge Series, Goal 22 and the Cool Sites series In the former school I taught at some of the students rallied together and complained to the principal about the previous teacher. The instructor thought it was because of the low grades they received in the class. When I was receiving the same group of students the following year I was really nervous. This experience made me reflect on my grading practices. Why do only a few instructors provide constructive feedback? I believe this is due to two main reasons. specific- the student knows exactly what you thought was positive and what needed improvement.private- make sure the other students do not know who made the worst grades.immediate- provide the feedback as soon as possible when the assignment is still in the student’s mind.helpful- We want students to strive to improve and to learn. Grading Resources Brain Honey- Free online curriculum mapping. Challenge:
Giving Good Praise to Girls: What Messages Stick How to praise kids: It’s a hot topic for many parents and educators. A lot of the conversation around it has stemmed from studies by Carol Dweck, professor of psychology at Stanford who has been researching this specific topic for many years. “My research shows that praise for intelligence or ability backfires,” said Dweck, who co-authored a seminal research paper on the effects of praise on motivation and performance. “What we’ve shown is that when you praise someone, say, ‘You’re smart at this,’ the next time they struggle, they think they’re not. It’s really about praising the process they engage in, not how smart they are or how good they are at it, but taking on difficulty, trying many different strategies, sticking to it and achieving over time.” But what some might not know is that this paradox is strongest for girls. “Of all the subjects on earth, people think math is the most fixed,” Dweck said. [RELATED READING: Girls and Math: Busting the Stereotype] Katrina Schwartz
Resources and Downloads for Differentiated Instruction Tips for downloading: PDF files can be viewed on a wide variety of platforms -- both as a browser plug-in or a stand-alone application -- with Adobe's free Acrobat Reader program. Click here to download the latest version of Adobe Reader. Click on any title link below to view or download that file. Resources On This Page: Lesson Plans & Rubric - Reteach and Enrich Sample materials used to teach, assess, reteach, and enrich one week's fifth grade math objective: differentiating prime and composite numbers. Back to Top Tools for Data Assessment Teachers at Mesquite meet weekly with the student achievement teacher to review the most recent assessment data and plan instruction for each student accordingly. 5th Grade Math Formative Assessment Tracking Sheet Sample spreadsheet used to track student performance on each objective. Culture Websites & Readings
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10 books to help boost young boys' reading On Tuesday, the government announced its plan to get more children reading. It takes the form of a competition, aimed at seven- to 12-year-olds and slated to kick off in September, that will reward the young readers who devour the most books: the clear intention, as schools minister Nick Gibb put it, is "to give a competitive spur to reluctant readers". Both boys and girls will be eligible, but as boys make up the majority of these "reluctant readers" – one in 10 British boys are now leaving primary school with the reading-age of a seven-year-old – Gibb added that he hoped boys in particular would be inspired "by a bit of healthy competition". So which books should the nation's boys be reading if they want to get a headstart? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Can you do better?
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The Teacher’s Survival Kit for Lesson Planning! Tips & 1000s of Free Lesson Plans Posted by Shelly Terrell on Saturday, August 18th 2012 Goal 16: Plan An Engaging Lesson of The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. – Socrates Lesson planning is stressful and time-consuming, but is important in giving us an action plan for the entire school year. A Few Tips … When planning a lesson, I think we need to keep objectives in mind but there are other factors that make up a great lesson. G- group dynamic R- relevance to learners’ lives and needs E-emergent language and ideas focus A- attentiveness T- thoughtfulness To this list I would add flexibility. Templates Some of us will need a framework from which to build our lessons. Structured Templates: Another idea: Map our your lesson plan in a mindmap More Lesson Planning Tips: 1000s of Free Lesson Plans Here are a few places to find free lesson plans to teach English in any subject or to any age level! Lesson Plan Sites for Other Subject Areas Bookmarked Resources Important News
Behavior 101: Super Student Drops! I just finished "updating" the cover and instructions for the first product that I posted on Teachers Pay Teachers. Here is the first cover. I know...blah! Here is the updated cover...Boy, that's better, but I still have lots to learn! Super Student Drops is a behavior management tool that I have used in the past with my students. What are some simple behavior tips that work wonders for you in your classroom? Share with us by leaving a comment! Thanks for stopping by! Jennifer Check out TONS of other freebies!
Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement A while back, I was asked, "What engages students?" Sure, I could respond, sharing anecdotes about what I believed to be engaging, but I thought it would be so much better to lob that question to my own eighth graders. The responses I received from all 220 of them seemed to fall under 10 categories, representing reoccuring themes that appeared again and again. So, from the mouths of babes, here are my students' answers to the question: "What engages students?" 1. Working with their peers "Middle-school students are growing learners who require and want interaction with other people to fully attain their potential." "Teens find it most interesting and exciting when there is a little bit of talking involved. 2. "I believe that when students participate in "learning by doing" it helps them focus more. "We have entered a digital age of video, Facebook, Twitter, etc., and they [have] become more of a daily thing for teens and students. 3. "I believe that it all boils down to relationships. 4.
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Rules Rethink With the combination of knowing that educators in our own division are opening their classrooms to students tomorrow, and reading Joan Young’s post on expectations, it made me really think about this process that we go through every year. There are still many educators that simply tell students the “rules” of the classroom, yet more teachers are talking about how students are helping develop these expectations and have “ownership” over the process. I guess I always wonder about that notion because many classrooms come up with very similar rules that contain notions of “respect others, respect yourself, etc.”, which I think are important things to discuss to help build character, but are they the things we should be starting our year off with? If you were a teacher in a school, or an employee in a business, how inspired would you be the first day going over the “rules”, whether you help make them or not? I have always just felt uncomfortable with this notion but was never sure why.
Closing the Achievement Gap One Student at a Time Poverty is a huge factor affecting the performance of our elementary students. Schools, districts and states with a high percentage of low-income families can reasonably cite poverty as one explanation for lower test scores or poor performance in other measures of student achievement. My concern, however, is always for the individual children in my classroom. At that level, should poverty be excuse for poor student performance? In my opinion, absolutely not! I believe a lot in the promise of public education. Dropout Prevention Starts Early K-6 is critical to student success. How do we do that? No Segregation The first step is to adopt the mindset that every student in our class is absolutely equal, regardless of their background, family circumstances, academic level -- or even their personality. Students should never be separated for the convenience of the teacher. Equal Seating Every classroom will have children who are talkative, disinterested or apathetic. No Put Downs
It’s Not a Pipe: Teaching Kids to Read the Media The image projected on the screen in the front of the classroom is Magritte's painting of a pipe, including the words, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe." I ask the students to each briefly make a guess why they think Magritte wrote that, since the painting is obviously a pipe. Some volunteers share their guesses with the class. One student nails it. "Good, so what does this have to do with politics, advertising, and the media?" The full title of the unit is "Politics, the News and Advertising: Critical Consciousness and the Media." Of course it's a priority that all students must be taught to be literate in their written and spoken language, the language of words. Candidates for Sale Advertising, political parties and the news media continually use visual images to affect our thinking and our feelings. In this particular unit students watch The Living Room Candidate, Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2008. We then look at each of the elements of a commercial. Sterling Cooper & You