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Beginning of the Year Ideas
Have a smart phone use this ideas to help scan contact information
http://pencilspaperandpd.blogspot.com/
http://travelingtogether.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/teachers-talk-first-day-of-school/
http://pencilspaperandpd.blogspot.com/
http://travelingtogether.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/teachers-talk-first-day-of-school/
Bulletin Board Ideas
http://www.peaceloveandfirstgrade.blogspot.com/2012/06/making-scrunchy-border.html
Friday, June 22, 2012
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Teacher Resources
This website has some useful videos and lesson plans
http://www.teachersdomain.org/
http://www.teachersdomain.org/
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Minds in Bloom: Flip Chute for Task Cards!
Minds in Bloom: Flip Chute for Task Cards!: I saw this idea on Classroom DIY and thought it was so clever that I wanted to pass it along. When a kid puts a card in at the top, it fl...
Favorite Quotes
I love to have a" Quote Of the Day," posted somewhere in the classroom. Students look forward to seeing them and it gives them inspiration!!! I found these on Julie's Blog! I have many more I plan on adding soon.
http://www.julieballew.com/A_Literate_Life/Quotes.html
http://www.julieballew.com/A_Literate_Life/Quotes.html
Classrooms
I want to create a work space in my classroom that is neat, organized and flows with working in collaborative work settings.
I found these ideas on Julie Ballew's Blog.
http://www.julieballew.com/A_Literate_Life/Photos/Pages/Classrooms.html
I found these ideas on Julie Ballew's Blog.
http://www.julieballew.com/A_Literate_Life/Photos/Pages/Classrooms.html
Mentor Texts
I am borrowing this really cool idea from Julie Ballew! If you have not checked out her blog you need to! She has so many great ideas for the classroom!!!
http://www.julieballew.com/A_Literate_Life/Mentor_Texts.html
http://www.julieballew.com/A_Literate_Life/Mentor_Texts.html
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
The Teaching Thief: Goal Grid and Web 2.0 Tools
The Teaching Thief: Goal Grid and Web 2.0 Tools: Happy Wednesday! First, thank you to everyone who commented on my last post. It was reassuring and helpful to know that I'm not alone. ...
The Inspired Classroom: It's Kind of Fun...
The Inspired Classroom: It's Kind of Fun...: After discovering KMP Doodles , I knew I had to have her alphabet to make a poster! I bought them this morning, had them in my in box wi...
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Teaching with TLC: What in the World is a Wordle or a Word Cloud?
Teaching with TLC: What in the World is a Wordle or a Word Cloud?: I realize I have been out of the teaching loop. Maybe it's because I have moved three times in two and a half years or I've had two babies i...
Fabulous in Fourth!: Poetry Cafe Night
Fabulous in Fourth!: Poetry Cafe Night: I organized our school's first Poetry Cafe Night with the help of my teammates. We invited all the fourth graders to attend a night of ...
Flipped Classroom
Flipped Classroom
More About Alan November
Alan November is an international leader in education technology. He began his career as an oceanography teacher and dorm counselor at an island reform school for boys in Boston Harbor. While Alan was a computer science teacher in Lexington, MA, he was probably the first teacher in the world to have a student project on line in 1984, a database for the handicapped. He has been director of an alternative high school, computer coordinator, technology consultant and university lecturer. He has helped schools, governments and industry leaders improve the quality of education through technology.
Audiences enjoy Alan’s humor and wit as he pushes the boundaries of how to improve teaching and learning. His areas of expertise include planning across curriculum, staff development, new school design, community building and leadership development. He has delivered keynotes and workshops in all fifty states, across Canada and throughout the UK, Europe, Asia and Central America.
Alan was named one of the nation’s fifteen most influential thinkers of the decade by Technology and Learning Magazine. In 2001, he was listed one of eight educators to provide leadership into the future by the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse. In 2007 he was selected to speak at the Cisco Public Services Summit during the Nobel Prize Festivities in Stockholm, Sweden. His writing includes numerous articles and two best-selling books, Empowering Students with Technology and Web Literacy for Educators. Alan was co-founder of the Stanford Institute for Educational Leadership Through Technology and is most proud of being selected as one of the original five national Christa McAuliffe Educators.
Each summer Alan leads the Building Learning Communities summer conference with world-class presenters and international participants. Visit http://novemberlearning.com/blc for more details.
What They Say
"An iconoclast whose common sense we cannot afford to ignore. He is at the heart of the matter regarding student learning and the imperatives of the future."
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Reflections of teaching day by day........
Another great day in Fourth Grade!! The Writing STAAR Test is just two school days away!!! I am very nervous, but we have been working so hard! We have spent this whole week reviewing our writing skills and editing other's work. We will see how we do!!
I am already planning on how I can do things differently next year. We have been in the dark all year, not really knowing what to expect this year on the STAAR Test. I am open for any suggestions or information that you may have learned about the test.
Cathy
I am already planning on how I can do things differently next year. We have been in the dark all year, not really knowing what to expect this year on the STAAR Test. I am open for any suggestions or information that you may have learned about the test.
Cathy
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