Quick Thoughts
"8th Graders, At this time tomorrow, we'll be done with the first day of the last semester of your middle school career!"33 days ago"Happy to say I was able to get 18 novels and graphic novels for $89 for my classroom today. I picked them from the ALA YA lit lists."126 days ago"At CFISD middle school language arts share session. Teachers are so creative! It *is* difficult to make LA kinesthetic."145 days ago
Category Archives: Classroom Management
Teaching What’s Critical
We’ve been given standards to teach, and the “critical” ones are the ones that are assessed state-wide. There are more things that are critical to students’ success than these “critical standards” — a love of learning is one of them. … Continue reading
4 Questions
I really need to look up the strategy of using these four questions to let students get themselves back on task: What are you doing? What are you supposed to be doing? Were/Are you doing it? What are you going … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, off task, on task, responsibility, strategy
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Crumbs of my Philosophy of Education
These are small parts of my overall philosophy of education. Very disorganized, not secret, and need a place for me to refer back to them. My top classroom rule (stated positively) is: Always Allow Learning. (negatively: Don’t interrupt/prevent learning) Permutations … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, expectations, idea, parents, responsibility, rules
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