Educational Links 8/26/18

The Shift From Content To Purpose: A Continuum of Choice

https://wegrowteachers.com/shift-content-purpose-continuum-choice/

Video: Why Executive Function Is So Important for Your Child

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/executive-functioning-issues/video-why-executive-function-is-so-important-for-your-child?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg

Use This Chrome Setting to Save Your Laptop's Battery

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2018/08/use-this-chrome-setting-to-save-your.html

Free Resource: Make Mindfulness Work for You

https://www.additudemag.com/download/mindfulness-for-adhd-natural-treatment-faq/

Reading Buddies

https://www.edutopia.org/article/reading-buddies

Can an Online Tool Depolarize Campus Discussions?

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-08-23-can-an-online-tool-depolarize-campus-discussions

Digital Disaster: Screen Time is Destroying Childrens’ Health

https://richardjamesrogers.com/2018/07/01/digital-disaster-screen-time-is-destroying-childrens-health/

As teachers, we’ve pinned our colours to the ‘Technology Troop’ so much that as soon as people start speaking up about the dangers of widespread and pervasive technological encroachment into peoples’ lives they are often shunned; sometimes disgraced and can be seen as ‘old-fashioned’ or not ‘with the times’.

This Week in MzT's Classroom 8/27--8/31 2018

This week includes the High School and Middle School Retreats on Thursday and Friday.

So, oh happy day, no assessment on Friday!

Monday 8/27/18 

Grades 7, 8, and 9

Takes notes from teacher's lecture on genres of literature.

Literary Genres

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A1aM-zzJls

Reading Team Day

The Myth of Icarus and Daedalus

https://westenglish7.weebly.com/uploads/2/8/8/3/28833613/icarus___daedalus_phaethon.pdf

First read through with partner on Chromebook, take notes on plot diagram with partners CW

List vocabulary words from story in HW section.

Book Chat about Outside Reading

HW Using notes from your INB, write a paragraph summary of the story.

The Story of Icarus 

https://westenglish7.weebly.com/uploads/2/8/8/3/28833613/icarus___daedalus_phaethon.pdf

Study vocabulary.

Grades 10, 11, 12

Reading Team Day

The Myth of Icarus and Daedalus And Phaeton

https://westenglish7.weebly.com/uploads/2/8/8/3/28833613/icarus___daedalus_phaethon.pdf

First read through both stories with partner on Chromebook, take notes on plot diagram with partners CW

List vocabulary words from both stories in HW section.

Book Chat about Outside Reading

HW Using notes from your INB, write a paragraph summary of the story.

The Story of Icarus  and the Story of Phaeton

https://westenglish7.weebly.com/uploads/2/8/8/3/28833613/icarus___daedalus_phaethon.pdf

Study vocabulary.

Tuesday 8/28/18

Grades 7, 8, 9

Elements of Plot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH5jlkK4aUI

Reading aloud as a class The Myth of Icarus and Daedalus

Answer questions together in writing  from story.

Writer's Workshop

Writing summaries about stories using a plot diagram.

HW Study notes on genres of literature.

Study notes on the elements of plots.

Study vocabulary from the Icarus story.

Grades 10, 11, 12

Elements of Plot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH5jlkK4aUI

Reading aloud as a class The Myth of Icarus and Daedalus

Answer questions together in writing  from story link;

Discuss with teams the story of Phaeton; answer questions together.

Writer's Workshop

Writing summaries about stories using a plot diagram.

HW Study notes on genres of literature.

Study notes on the elements of plots.

Study vocabulary from the Icarus story.

Wednesday 8/29/18 

Grades 7, 8, 9.

Teacher review of story vocabulary.

Class discussion of extra questions on story.

Ed Tech Cafe

Digital Citizenship topics

What You Students Really Need to Know About Digitial Citizenship

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/digital-citizenship-need-to-know-vicki-davis

HW No new homework on Wednesdays.

Grades 10, 11, 12

Teacher review of both stories' vocabulary.

Class discussion of extra questions on stories.

Ed Tech Cafe

Digital Citizenship topics

What Your Students Really Need to Know About Digitial Citizenship

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/digital-citizenship-need-to-know-vicki-davis

HW  No new homework on Wednesday.

Thursday and Friday 8/30/18 and 8/31/18

High School and Middle School Retreat

Psalm 9:1-2 The Message (MSG)

A David Psalm

9 

1-2 I’m thanking you, God, from a full heart,

    I’m writing the book on your wonders.

I’m whistling, laughing, and jumping for joy;

    I’m singing your song, High God.

Educational Links 8/25/18

The Answers to 5 Questions Frequently Asked by New Chromebook Users

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2018/08/the-answers-to-5-questions-frequently.html

THREE GOOD RESOURCES ON SCHOOL DRESS CODES FOR STUDENTS

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2018/08/22/three-good-resources-on-school-dress-codes-for-students/

California community colleges urged to plan now for fewer students in remedial courses

https://edsource.org/2018/california-community-colleges-urged-to-plan-now-for-fewer-students-in-remedial-courses/600905

New Google Classroom: Add Your Resources to the About Link

https://alicekeeler.com/2018/08/22/new-google-classroom-add-resources-about/

Alternative Consequences

http://www.boystowntraining.org/alternative-consequences.html?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blogs&utm_content=Alternative_Consequences

Educators, students file lawsuit against Education Department, DeVos

https://www.cta.org/About-CTA/News-Room/Press-Releases/2018/08/20180823.aspx

Discipline Policies That Illegally Punish and Exclude Students with Disabilities Must Stop

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2018/08/discipline-policies-that-illegally.html

Disconcerting and problematic, this case is, on one level, a microcosm for the public education sector at large: A recent report by the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools found that students with disabilities continue to be disciplined roughly twice as often as their peers without disabilities.

The Myth of Icarus and Daedalus Unfolded

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Bruehgal

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

William Carlos Williams, 1883 - 1963

According to Brueghel
when Icarus fell
it was spring

a farmer was ploughing
his field
the whole pageantry

of the year was
awake tingling
near

the edge of the sea
concerned 
with itself

sweating in the sun
that melted
the wings’ wax

unsignificantly

DAEDALUS AND ICARUS (plus Phaeton) retold by Josephine Preston Peabody)

https://westenglish7.weebly.com/uploads/2/8/8/3/28833613/icarus___daedalus_phaethon.pdf

Daedalus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus

Icarus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus

The myth of Icarus and Daedalus - Amy Adkins

https://archive.org/details/youtube-3s2QPQnuaGk

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Reflective

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Reflective: A Mid-Year Reflection for Teachers and Students   http://www.edutopia.org/blog/mid-year-reflection-teachers-students-maurice-elias   ...

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MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Having With It Ness

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Having With It Ness: 1. Teacher Withitness http://rossieronline.usc.edu/teacher-withitness/   2. Withitness...what does it mean? http://www.withitness....