Blended Voices | Two high school English teachers celebrate their 10th year of teaching. Read.gov | The Library of Congress Think.com, Oracle Education Foundation, Projects | Competition | Library Thoughtful Logs You will notice on our blog that my students use amazing learning tools called Thoughtful Logs. Many of you have emailed asking for more information about Thoughtful Logs - what they are, how to use them, etc. I figured I'd just post the information here with pictures to help answer your questions. Here we go! Where The Idea Came From: Our district had several elementary teachers pilot Linda Dorn and Carla Soffos' Comprehensive Literacy Model this past two years with the help of a literacy coach (Mrs. Candice Johnson), and I was one of the lucky pilot teachers that got coached. Making A Thoughtful Log: The Thoughtful Log can be any kind of notebook or even a folder that has paper held into it using brads. Dividing the Thoughtful Log Using Tabs : In the intermediate grades, we divide the Thoughtful Log into 5 sections using sticky tabs. I highly recommend the book Comprehension Connections: Bridges To Strategic Reading by Tanny McGregor to help you teach the strategies. - Leanne :)
Today's Most Popular Study Guides 16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School I am 28 now. I don’t think about the past or regret things much these days. But sometimes I wish that I had known some of things I have learned over the last few years a bit earlier. That perhaps there had been a self-improvement class in school. Because some of these 16 things in this article a teacher probably spoke about in class. Some of it would probably not have stuck in my mind anyway. But I still think that taking a few hours from all those German language classes and use them for some personal development classes would have been a good idea. So here are 16 things I wish they had taught me in school (or I just would like to have known about earlier). 1. This is one of the best ways to make better use of your time. So a lot of what you do is probably not as useful or even necessary to do as you may think. You can just drop – or vastly decrease the time you spend on – a whole bunch of things. 2. You can do things quicker than you think. So focus your time on finding solutions. 3. 4.
Interactive Student Notebook!!!! If you've been following my blog this year you already know that my Interactive Student Notebook is my pride & joy!!! I'm so excited to launch my new product!!!! This is a product I worked very hard to develop as I could not find any other resource like it on line.When I moved to middle school I found myself with no curriculum, just the standards and was told it was up to me to figure it out.WHAT?!?!?!!?! In the past three years that my students & I have used this tool it has greatly evolved.I know use a combination of notebooking (a style of note-taking) and reflections.In this packet, I created 100 templates for you to choose from and mix & match to work for each of your lessons.You will see your students & lessons transform and blossom as you begin using this resource. Here is a link to my previous Interactive Student Notebook posts with lots of pictures of students samples. (click the images above to purchase this item at a store of your choice ) The file is a zipped PDF. file.
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