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

 

Disability Scoop

 

 

MzTeachuh's Meditations: Attitude of Gratitude

 

Thessalonians 5:18New King James Version (NKJV)

18 in 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

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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
 
 

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

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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

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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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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/

Social and Emotional Skills: What to Expect at Different Ages

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/signs-symptoms/age-by-age-learning-skills/social-and-emotional-skills-what-to-expect-at-different-ages

Feds Issue New Guidance: IEPs Should Align With Grade-Level Standards 

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2015/11/feds-issue-new-guidance-ieps-should.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29

Be a School Leader: The 16 Best Resources for School Administrators

http://www.edudemic.com/school-leader-16-best-resources-school-administrators/ 

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

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

Can Reading Make You Happier?

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/can-reading-make-you-happier 

Financial Literacy: Addressing Student, Family, and Community Needs

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/financial-literacy-student-family-community-carol-troxell 

The school social worker: 'For some children, just getting to the school gates is an achievement'

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/school-social-worker-some-children-just-getting-school-gates 

 

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Learning Ed Tech

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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Educational Links 11/18/15

Improving Kids' Cognitive Skills Though Sports 

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2015/11/improving-kids-cognitive-skills-though.html 

Why Every School Needs an 'Innovation Day'

http://magazine.good.is/articles/why-every-school-needs-an-innovation-day 

L.A. Unified explores possibility of becoming an all-charter district

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-la-unified-all-charter-district-20151116-story.html 

The Power of an Impassioned Principal

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

The Role of Special Education in a Democracy

http://www.thinkinclusive.us/the-role-of-special-education-in-a-democracy/?utm_content=buffer6f50d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer 

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 

10 Specialists Pick Apps, Websites to Help Special Needs, Struggling Readers Love to Learn

http://www.readingrockets.org/blogs/aiming-access/10-specialists-pick-apps-websites-help-special-needs-struggling-readers-love?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ReadingRockets_TeachingReading+%28Reading+Rockets%3A+Teaching+Reading+Resources%29 

 

 

The Sky Is Cheap Entertainment: Go Outside Tonight and Look Up! The Leonids!

The Leonids are most easily sighted tonight, but will be active the remainder of the month.

Leonid meteors midnight to dawn November 18

http://earthsky.org/tonight/radiant-point-for-leonid-meteor-shower 

Sky spectacle: The Leonid meteor shower is coming

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/sciencefair/2015/11/15/leonid-meteor-shower/75723412/ 

And a bonus of planets!

Look eastward before dawn to see the grand line-up of planets: Jupiter, Mars and Venus.

 

 

A Soundtrack for Our Classroom

You are working to the easy listening music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Using Music in the Elementary Classroom (Warning: It May Get Loud)

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/music-recommendations-elementary-gaetan-pappalardo 

I like classical quite a bit for background.


Here are some of my choices.:


Antonio Vivaldi

Four Seasons ~ Vivaldi 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRxofEmo3HA 


Beethoven's 5th Symphony


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4IRMYuE1hI


TEOC - Symphony No. 06 - Beethoven | Full Length 45 Minutes 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O1D1zuvWic 


Symphony No. 9 ~ Beethoven 
Ludwig Van Beethoven


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3217H8JppI 


Mozart - Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 [complete] 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTc1mDieQI8 


 


Wolfgang Mozart

 


Mozart Flute & Harp Concerto C major K 299 Neville Marriner RTSI 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMIzC9CzVUQ 


Mozart Piano Concerto No.21 in C major, 'Elvira Madigan' K.467


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1bMPi2aw1A 


It is my opinion that listening to Bach's Brandenburg Concertos  is truly 'busy bee' motivation, but the students generally like Beethoven the best.


Johann Sebastian Bach

 


J.S. Bach Brandenburg Concertos, Complete, Ton Koopman


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcTc67KlD9o 


We do know that Mozart is the best soundtrack--based on decades of research.  Kids like it, too.

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Monday, November 16, 2015

Special Education Weekly Update 11/16/15

9 Surprising Facts About Learning and Attention Issues 

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/getting-started/what-you-need-to-know/9-surprising-facts-about-learning-and-attention-issues 

Schoolkids in Handcuffs 

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

Special education shifts to results-driven framework

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2015/11/11/special-education-rda-986/

Helping Kids Who Struggle with Executive Functions

http://www.nesca-news.com/2015/11/helping-kids-who-struggle-with.html

Guest Post: "We need to stop looking for a 'cause' for autism." 

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2015/11/guest-post-we-need-to-stop-looking-for.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29

Abilities - Society Benefits When Everyone Can Participate

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/debra-ruh/abilities-society-benefit_b_8558946.html 

Learning Disabilities: What They Are (And What They’re Not)

http://www.smartkidswithld.org/first-steps/what-are-learning-disabilities/learning-disabilities-what-they-are-and-what-theyre-not/?gclid=CjwKEAiAmqayBRDLgsfGiMmkxT0SJADHFUhPfO06Mw-0XMcnQXH1zhUB9DdSqklGnXTRguEgcvu4WxoC_FDw_wcB 

 

 

Ed Tech and STEM Weekly Update 11/16/15

 Handy Atlas Apps

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/11/4-handy-atlas-apps-to-help-students-learn-about-the-world.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+educatorstechnology %2FpDkK+%28Educational+Technology +and+Mobile+Learning%29  

How to Provide Kids With Screen Time That Supports Learning

http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/11/11/how-to-provide-kids-with-screen-time-that-supports-learning/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

 Screentime Is Making Kids Moody, Crazy and Lazy

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mental-wealth/201508/screentime-is-making-kids-moody-crazy-and-lazy?utm_source=FacebookPost&utm_medium=FBPost&utm_campaign=FBPost

Classroom Technology

http://www.edutopia.org/blogs/tag/classroom-technology 

Chrome Apps for Classroom Management

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/11/6-powerful-chrome-apps-for-classroom.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+educatorstechnology%2FpDkK+%28Educational+Technology+and+Mobile+Learning%29

Why Do We Need Technology in Schools If It Doesn’t Improve Quality?

http://edtechreview.in/trends-insights/insights/2187-how-does-technology-affect-education

Teacher’s Guide to Digital Citizenship

http://www.edudemic.com/teachers-guide-digital-citizenship/

 

Sunday, November 15, 2015

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Beauty Past Change

The Mulberry Tree Vincent Van Gogh 1889
 
Pied Beauty
Gerard Manly Hopkins
 
Glory be to God for dappled things –
   For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
      For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
   Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;
      And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
   Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
      With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
                                Praise him.