Showing posts with label student choice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label student choice. Show all posts

Friday, March 8, 2019

Refining Classroom Rules and Norms

Create Your Classroom Rules WITH Your Students for a Powerful Start to the Year



Ten Activities for Establishing Classroom Rules





The 5 Critical Categories of Rules


Classroom Management: Develop Clear Rules, Expectations


The Science Behind Classroom Norming


How can I create, uphold, and share responsibility 
for classroom norms?

Creating Classroom Rules Together


5 Keys to Effective Classroom Management




How to Create Class Rules

Classroom rules vs. procedures


Let’s clarify what purpose rules serve and how they differ from routines.  Rules set the tone for the classroom.  They provide broad guidelines about what should or should not be happening as a whole in the classroom. Procedures and routines are specific steps that kids are supposed to take in specific scenarios.


I especially like #4. Kill no vermin such as fleas, lice, ticks, etc., in the sight of others.

Friday, November 23, 2018

Educational Links 11/24/18


Closing the Diversity Gap

New research sheds light on how to inspire, recruit and retain teachers of color.

The Beginning of the End of Snow Days


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Where Curiosity Will Lead Education


What Giving Students Choice Looks Like in the Classroom



Keeping in mind the prior research that proves there is such a thing as too much choice, it’s important to just look at all the possible options that teachers have who are looking to incorporate more choice in their classrooms.

Saturday, June 30, 2018

Refining Classroom Rules and Norms

Create Your Classroom Rules WITH Your Students for a Powerful Start to the Year



Ten Activities for Establishing Classroom Rules





The 5 Critical Categories of Rules


Classroom Management: Develop Clear Rules, Expectations


The Science Behind Classroom Norming


How can I create, uphold, and share responsibility 
for classroom norms?

Creating Classroom Rules Together


5 Keys to Effective Classroom Management




How to Create Class Rules

Classroom rules vs. procedures


Let’s clarify what purpose rules serve and how they differ from routines.  Rules set the tone for the classroom.  They provide broad guidelines about what should or should not be happening as a whole in the classroom. Procedures and routines are specific steps that kids are supposed to take in specific scenarios.


I especially like #4. Kill no vermin such as fleas, lice, ticks, etc., in the sight of others.

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Educational Links 10/27/17


Dyslexia and graphic novels





The Importance of Academic Courage


5 Ways To Include Student Voice In School Change


Teachers Report Stressed, Anxious Students In The 'Age Of Trump'


Empowering Students Through Choice


What happens in music class matters


The Every Student Succeeds Act, which is replacing No Child Left Behind, takes effect this school year and emphasizes a well-rounded education which includes the arts. For many schools that means putting more emphasis and cash behind arts programs that were neglected for the past decade. The Arts Education Partnership has an ESSA cheat sheet with lots of relevant information about what this means for your state and you can find it here. 

Monday, November 18, 2013

Choosing the Best Tweets of the Day 11/18/13

1. 6 Questions On Measuring Creativity & Other Abstractions

http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/measuring-creativity-abstractions/ 

2. Bell Ringer Exercises

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/bell-ringer-exercises-todd-finley?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=blog-bellringers-repost 

3. Better Teacher Professional Development: Pairing Teachers

http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/better-teacher-professional-development-pairing-teachers/ 

4. How Do I Get a PLN?

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/how-do-i-get-a-pln-tom-whitby 

5. The Education Lessons JFK Left Behind

http://www.educationnews.org/education-policy-and-politics/victoria-young-the-education-lessons-jfk-left-behind/

6. Homeless Students A Growing Problem For Schools

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=245967470&ft=1&f=1013 

7. Choice Equals Power: How to Motivate Students to Learn

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/11/how-to-help-students-develop-the-motivation-to-learn/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo 


Choice and collaboration!

 

Victoria Young: The Education Lessons JFK Left Behind - See more at: http://www.educationnews.org/education-policy-and-politics/victoria-young-the-education-lessons-jfk-left-behind/#sthash.o4DRXfhX.dpuf