Saturday, April 6, 2019

Educational Links 4/7/19


“THINKALONG” LOOKS LIKE A GREAT SITE TO PROMOTE CRITICAL THINKING


Creating Space for Collaboration


Three Tools for Teaching Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills



7 Ways to Help Your Child Cope With Noise Sensitivity

The Unspoken Key To Consistency


How to Create Video-based Lessons


Podcasts That Expand Our Hearts and Minds



A collection of podcasts that aren’t about education but can still help teachers find new ways to think about their work.


Helpful Hints for When Teacher Is Overwhelmed


Time Saving Tips for Teachers 
 http://www.educationoasis.com/resources/Articles/time_saving_tips.htm 

Replacing Classroom Chaos with Control
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/coach_gs_teaching_tips/2010/10/going_from_classroom_chaos_to_control.html 

Understanding the Common Core 
http://www.centerforpubliceducation.org/commoncore

Understanding the Common Core

Dealing with Angry Parents 
 http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin474.shtml

The Teacher’s Guides To Technology And Learning

http://www.edudemic.com/guides/ 

How to Get Along With ANY Teaching Colleague

http://www.weareteachers.com/blogs/post/2012/06/15/how-to-get-along-with-any-colleague

Classroom Management: 10 Ways to Deal with Difficult Students 

http://www.teachhub.com/10-ways-deal-difficult-students 

Solutions for Teachers Bullied by Colleagues

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/teachers-bullied-by-colleagues-2-todd-finley 

A Curriculum of Concerns

 http://www.edutopia.org/blog/a-curriculum-of-concerns-mark-phillips

Social and Emotional Learning-- How Do You Feel About That?

Empathy: The Most Important Back-to-School Supply

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/empathy-back-to-school-supply-homa-tavangar 

 Empathy starts with putting yourself in someone else's shoes -- a key step in understanding perspectives that differ from your own. This isn't just a nice thing to do; it's an essential, active skill. It's foundational to embracing differences, building relationships, gaining a global perspective, conducting richer and deeper analysis, and communicating more effectively.

 As a further suggestion, living through literature creates empathy, such as journeying through 'The Story of My Life' by Helen Keller. All literature, and poetry, can serve this purpose.

Start Empathy Videos

http://startempathy.org/videos 

We know that a child who masters empathy at the age of six is less likely to bully ten years later, and that, for students, having one supportive relationship with an adult outside the family can be the difference between success and failure as an adult.

As educators, we need to support opportunities to be the 'one supportive adult relationship' outside the home through clubs, tutoring, sports, in-class support--however we can create a productive bond with a student to provide emotional support for healthy development. We need to 'be there' for the kids. 

Social and Emotional Learning

http://www.edutopia.org/social-emotional-learning 

Why educators must help students develop the skills to manage their emotions, resolve conflicts nonviolently, and make responsible decisions.

Can schools provide students (and teachers) with insight and support to develop empathy thus limiting bullying and violence to the end of growing tolerance, camaraderie and global teamwork? We surely must try.

It's Time for Social and Emotional Learning for All

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/social-emotional-learning-for-teachers-elena-aguilar 

 

 

National Poetry Month: Poem #10




In Flanders Fields
By John McCRae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
    That mark our place; and in the sky
    The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
    Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
        In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
    The torch; be yours to hold it high.
    If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
        In Flanders fields.
 

This poem is a rondeau, written by McCrae while a doctor in the trenches; he also died. Many Canadian soldiers volunteered for WWI after reading this. The poem was found in their pockets after they became casualties.



MzTeachuh's Meditations: Fret Not

and don't forget to delight thyself in the Lord!

fret not
do good
commit thy way
rest
wait
cease from anger
wait upon the Lord
the meek shall inherit the earth
the Lord upholds the righteous
show mercy
the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord
depart from evil do good
speak wisdom



The Holy Bible (KJV) _ Psalms 37 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0onzQNZkQ6w 

Friday, April 5, 2019

Educational Links 4/6/19

Explicit Phonics Instruction: It's Not Just for Students With Dyslexia

Going Down the Rabbit Hole for Deeper Learning


Why Doesn't Every Teacher Know the Research on Reading Instruction?


Homework Anxiety: What You Need to Know


EASTER & PASSOVER ARE COMING UP – HERE ARE RELATED RESOURCES


4 Tips for Managing Blended Learning


How I Use Fishbowl Discussions to Engage Every Student


This technique puts five students in the hot seat to debate a question while the rest of the class watches and takes notes.

National Poetry Month: Poems #9a and #9b

Walt Whitman
 I Hear America Singing.
    I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
    Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe
              and strong,
    The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
    The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off
              work,
    The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deck-
              hand singing on the steamboat deck,
    The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing
              as he stands,
    The woodcutter's song, the ploughboy's on his way in the morn-
              ing, or at noon intermission or at sundown,
    The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work,
              or of the girl sewing or washing,
    Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
    The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young
              fellows, robust, friendly,
    Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.

I Hear America Singing

  by Walt Whitman
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand
     singing on the steamboat deck,
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands,
The wood-cutter's song, the ploughboy's on his way in the morning, or
     at noon intermission or at sundown,
The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of
     the girl sewing or washing,
Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows,
     robust, friendly,
Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15752#sthash.3OhjFiDm.dpuf

Walt Whitman
 Walt Whitman
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/126


I, Too

By Langston Hughes 

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.

Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—

I, too, am America.

Langston Hughes

Teaching Is Collaborating Until You're A Team


1. The Benefits of Teacher Collaboration

http://www.districtadministration.com/article/benefits-teacher-collaboration 

2. Teacher Collaboration Gives Schools Better Results

http://www.psmag.com/education/teacher-collaboration-gives-schools-better-results-34270/ 

3. Making Time for Teacher Collaboration Is Crucial

 http://www.edutopia.org/teacher-collaboration-crucial

All this in 30 minutes after school.

4. Maximizing the Impact of Teacher Collaboration 

http://www.education.com/reference/article/Ref_Maximizing_Impact/ 

5. 5 Ways to Get More Out of Teacher-to-Teacher Collaboration 

http://www.weareteachers.com/community/weareteachers-blog/blog-wat/2012/04/24/5-ways-to-get-more-out-of-teacher-to-teacher-collaboration 

6. The Benefits of Teacher Collaboration

http://currikiblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/the-benefits-of-teacher-collaboration/ 

7. 5 Ways to Get More Out of Teacher-to-Teacher Collaboration 

http://www.weareteachers.com/community/weareteachers-blog/blog-wat/2012/04/24/5-ways-to-get-more-out-of-teacher-to-teacher-collaboration 

Must be high school teachers collab team, only three women.

 

Thursday, April 4, 2019

Educational Links 4/5/19


5 things to avoid saying to students suffering from anxiety


Teachable Moments: How Four Educators Learned to See Their Students Differently


50 Years Later: What Teachers Need to Remember About Dr. King’s Legacy

6 ways parents and schools can tackle the spike in teen suicide


Putting The Brakes On Rage


Sensory Processing and Sensory Integration in Individuals with ASD


12 Principles Of Modern Learning


How should you use this to guide your teaching? You could take the verbs shown here (e.g., contribute, correlate, etc.) and design project-based learning or related learning playlist activities alongside your students. You could also present a document like these at staff or department meetings by slamming it down on the table and asking ‘Where’s the progress?!’

Matisse and Spring--What's Outside Your Window?

The Dessert: Harmony in Red, Henri Matisse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dessert:_Harmony_in_Red_%28The_Red_Room%29

Looks like Henri had trees in bloom outside his window.
Maybe he was listening to this music while he painted, which premiered the same year, 1908.

Maurice Ravel - Rhapsodie Espagnole, I-II 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ZyAf1udmU 


National Poetry Month: Poem #8


i carry your heart with me  

by E. E. Cummings
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart) 

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

National Poetry Month: Poem #7

  “Hope” is the thing with feathers - (314)

By Emily Dickinson



“Hope” is the thing with feathers -

That perches in the soul -

And sings the tune without the words -

And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -

And sore must be the storm -

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -

And on the strangest Sea -

Yet - never - in Extremity,

It asked a crumb - of me.

This is such a precious metaphor. Thank you, Emily.

Emily Dickinson 1830–1886

Educational Links 4/4/19


17 Things You Can Do While Actively Monitoring a Standardized Test


How Early Literacy Impacts Reading to Learn: Research, Strategies and Digital Tools



How 4 schools are improving student motivation


Study: ADHD is Second Most Impactful Health Condition for U.S. Children



What Are the Best Ways to Integrate Writing in Social Studies?

Why We Can't Afford Whitewashed Social-Emotional Learning

A Social Justice Framing for the Classics


Scaffolding discussions on race and socioeconomic difference in classic literary works can help make them accessible for teen readers.

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Educational Links 4/3/19

Tips for Teaching Realistic Optimism


How we turned around our reading program


Teaching Is Establishing The Need To Know


A Day in the Life of a Teen With Dyslexia


Classroom Activities for Earth Day


Why Students Can’t Write — And Why Tech Is Part of the Problem



How to Teach Students Historical Inquiry Through Media Literacy And Critical Thinking



Today, most people look up information they don’t know on the internet, including students. So it’s even more important that students have tools they can use to make educated decisions about what they trust online.

National Poetry Month: Poem #6

Diverging roads.

The Road Not Taken

By Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
 Robert Frost