Saturday, November 21, 2015

Best Articles for Educators 11/22/15

101 Ways For Teachers To Be More Creative

http://www.teachthought.com/uncategorized/101-ways-for-teachers-to-be-more-creative/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem&utm_content=564e03de04d301124960c18d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

The 7 Types of ADD – and How to Treat Each One

http://www.additudemag.com/slideshow/61/slide-1.html

The Power of an Impassioned Principal

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/11/principal-power-new-orleans-school/415911/

I am a Public School Teacher. Give Me All the Refugees You’ve Got!

https://gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/i-am-a-public-school-teacher-give-me-all-the-refugees-youve-got/

Google Expeditions Brings Virtual Reality Field Trips to Schools Across America

https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1441644043303616609#editor/target=post;postID=7282774862951060326;onPublishedMenu=posts;onClosedMenu=posts;postNum=4;src=link

5 Ways to Avoid Manipulation

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/5-ways-to-avoid-manipulation-richard-curwin?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20EdutopiaNewContent%20%28Edutopia%29

Welcome To The New Disability Scoop

https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2015/11/20/welcome-new-disability-scoop/21407/

The Premier Source for Developmental Disability News

MzTeachuh's Meditations: Attitude of Gratitude

Thessalonians 5:18New King James Version (NKJV)

¹⁸in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Personally, I don't believe this means we are grateful for bad things, but that God will help us through all circumstances.

MzTeachuh's Enjoying Cooking and Gardening: Preparing Your Soup Stock for Turkey Soup

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MzTeachuh: Teaching is Unlocking the Treasures of Knowledge

MzTeachuh: Teaching is Unlocking the Treasures of Knowledge: What a marvelous privilege to teach! In all of history, we have the greatest resources to empo w er the next generations. These links ar...

Teachable Moment: Who Were the Pilgrims, Really? NatGeo and PBS Debate This Week

National Geographic Channel Sunday and Monday, Sunday and Monday Nov. 22 and 23
Saints and Strangers
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/saints-and-strangers/galleries/saints-strangers-a-first-look/at/saints-strangers-a-first-look1-2099160/

Saints & Strangers Trailer
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/saints-and-strangers/videos/saints-strangers-trailer/

This American Experience program premieres Nov. 24

The Pilgrims

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/pilgrims/

Educational Links 11/21/15

101 Ways For Teachers To Be More Creative

http://www.teachthought.com/uncategorized/101-ways-for-teachers-to-be-more-creative/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem&utm_content=564e03de04d301124960c18d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

I am a Public School Teacher. Give Me All the Refugees You’ve Got!

https://gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/i-am-a-public-school-teacher-give-me-all-the-refugees-youve-got/

Hacking School: One Teenager’s Path to Happiness

http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/02/20/hacking-school-one-teenagers-path-to-happiness/

17 Things Teachers Are Thankful For

http://www.buzzfeed.com/weareteachers/17-things-teachers-are-thankful-for-h0xt

Routine, Ritual, and School Community

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/routine-ritual-and-school-community-greg-schnagl?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

'World's best teacher' warns on too much testing

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-34769430

Exposure to Toxic Stress in Childhood Linked to Risky Behavior and Adult Disease

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2015/11/exposure-to-toxic-stress-in-childhood.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29

Welcome To The New Disability Scoop

https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2015/11/20/welcome-new-disability-scoop/21407/

“Start With Goals, Not Tech Or Curriculum”

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2015/11/20/start-with-goals-not-tech-or-curriculum/

Friday, November 20, 2015

MzTeachuh: Vincent's Autumn Perspective

MzTeachuh: Vincent's Autumn Perspective: Van Gogh – Landscape with House and Ploughman 1889 Getting perspective from Vincent with lovely music to listen to. Autumn ...

Every Teacher Is A Reading Teacher

Creative visuals for Pre-algebra. Math 7

Your credential could be elementary or secondary. Your classroom could have algebra all over the board, or pictures of the Civil War on the wall. Your students could be taking Cornell notes on the scientific method. You are still a reading teacher.

Effective teaching includes opportunities for auditory and visual instruction, throwing in activities to solidify the lesson through verbalization by the students in teams and maybe kinesthetic involvement also, like my math teaching collaborators, creating a foldable pamphlet. Many students in the US are now learning English as a second language, and what teachers in the higher grades would normally assume the students had down solid in reading may be necessary to introduce.
http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/PolicyResearch/ELLResearchBrief.pdf

Reading academic language (or actually, any material) is a new experience for many kids. They were not exposed to the basics of reading the English language. And let's face it, English is a booger to learn, full of rules and then rules that don't apply. Ay yi yi!

http://www.readingrockets.org/teaching/about_reading/

Connecting words and symbols.Math 7

A word rich environment never goes out of style, no matter what grade. Hurrah for the word wall! The students can see the words, and the importance of words, and correct spelling. And in our world learning is increasingly auditory, so kids have marvelous working vocabularies of words and concepts from the Discovery Channel or the History Channel--but have never seen the words written down. Therefore, they usually don't recognize hundreds of words for which they know the meaning because they've only heard the word, never seen it written and connected it with the meaning. And the reading skills necessary to access the word may not be in their skill set.
http://www2.yk.psu.edu/learncenter/acskills/auditory.html
http://homeworktips.about.com/od/homeworkhelp/a/learningstyle.htm
It is interesting to find out your personal learning preferences, and help students to identify her own.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/bxb11/LSI/LSI.htm

What can a teacher do without sacrificing crucial academic time? Give kids lots of opportunities to read, read, read. Every teacher has new vocabulary at the beginning of the chapter. Take a minute to

Academic vocabulary in plain view.Science 7

write the word, syllabicate the word, decode the syllables for the kids, and then have them repeat it. Having students syllabicate, decode and read make the kids less anxious about words with several syllables. I know that literacy coaches with reading certificates can get high and mighty about the precision of syllabication, but if you're teaching a seventh grade science class that is having difficulty with the academic vocabulary--just go for it! Quick and dirty--infer in fer, support sup port, formulate for mu late....and if the students don't remember the essential decoding phonics--what the hey-- just tell them the sound er makes, or what silent e does, or when two vowels go walking the first does the talking. For heavens sake, if they need it, they need it! It truly doesn't take long for kids to catch on to decoding. And reading is so very empowering.
http://www.readingrockets.org/teaching/reading101/fluency/
http://www.readingrockets.org/helping/target/phonics/

Power lessons handwritten on giant sticky notes. Social Studies 8

Lessons to SYLLABICATE DECODE CONTEXT are used for kids to analyze unfamiliar words in passages. They could be reading along, then boom! an unknown word of scary length. What's a kid to do? Skip the word? NO! Syllabicate the word, sound it out, then read the surrounding context for clues as to the meaning. There are many, many techniques for reading comprehension. But reading fluency also needs to be addressed, and most instruction is supposedly completed in elementary. Frequently the kids need to be reacquainted with decoding and it is so very empowering for the students to read words fluently; the brief and frequent reminder to syllabicate, decode and read is totally worth the time and effort for all teachers.

Reading advice displayed in Math 7.

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/3479/

Every teacher teaches reading. It is a privilege for me to collaborate in classes where literacy is propagated and honored. My colleagues train constantly for perfection of methods, and meet very frequently to co-plan lessons. What a huge job. What a huge privilege.

The last three years in our middle school I have collaborated with several math teachers, usually seventh grade. They incorporate all methods for the kids' progress in language, reading, and writing as well as Math standards. It is amazing how thoroughly they coordinate instruction for all students (including my students.)

Autumn: Monet and Vivaldi

Autumn Poplars-Monet

And to my Australian friends who are in Spring, please forgive me.

Vivaldi's Four Seasons - Autumn (3rd movement) - Sheffield Park Garden

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SiyhRSMiPI

MzTeachuh: Weekend--Music for Feeling Flippant

MzTeachuh: Weekend--Music for Feeling Flippant: Music for feeling flippant. Part of Speech: adjective Definition: irreverent Synonyms: brassy, breezy, cheeky ...

Thursday, November 19, 2015

MzTeachuh's Top Posts of the Week 11/20/15

ePLNs for Teachers--Getting Connected

http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/11/mzteachuh-eplns-for-teachers-getting.html

Educational Links 11/7/15
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/11/educational-links-11715.html

Exquisite Beauty for You
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/11/mzteachuh-exquisite-beauty-for-you.html

The Arts Give You Smarts
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/11/mzteachuh-arts-give-you-smarts-stem-and.html

Special Arts and Crafts for Thanksgiving

http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/11/mzteachuh-special-arts-and-crafts-for.html

Teaching Is Soothing the Soul (SEL)

http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/11/mzteachuh-teaching-issoothing-soul-sel.html

Writing Prompts to Sooth Kids' Toxic Stress

http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/11/mzteachuh-writing-prompts-to-sooth-kids.html

MzTeachuh's Meditation: I Will Send You another Comforter
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/11/mzteachuhs-meditations-i-will-send-you.html

A Soundtrack for Our Classroom

http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/11/a-soundtrack-for-our-classroom.html

Learning Ed tech? Lost At Sea?

This tremendous graphic is from TeachThought http://www.teachthought.com/

http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/11/mzteachuh-learning-ed-tech-feel-lost-at.html

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MzTeachuh: Cheesy Jokes and Serious Thoughts About Thanksgivi...

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MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Teachers Talking To Each Other

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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Educational Links 11/19/15

Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development https://www.boundless.com/psychology/textbooks/boundless-psychology-textbook/human-development-14/theories-of-human-development-70/piaget-s-stages-of-cognitive-development-270-12805/