Educational Links 10/28/18

17 Teaching Principles of Effective Instruction

https://www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/2018/10/21/barack-rosenshine/?utm_content=bufferab57d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Moving to Mastery

http://www.gettingsmart.com/2018/10/moving-to-mastery-in-idaho/?fbclid=IwAR1-77WUT32eOFP7NM83KCsMJ_QGh-FHe7DWZV7ERdUK7efyD3OPc8nUn7E

Retrieval practice: five new tips to make learning stick

https://www.tes.com/news/retrieval-practice-five-new-tips-make-learning-stick?fbclid=IwAR15rrti0jvKHmAK_4BzKifcBJnf_J4S0LNh14CeYJP7HOzg4fuxKZR3CO0

Understanding Executive Functioning Issues

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/executive-functioning-issues/understanding-executive-functioning-issues?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg

How to Get Google Certified!

https://shakeuplearning.com/how-to-get-google-certified?fbclid=IwAR3X7RMY-XpCUt7dYTB4HG8YfXaw0LHbzY2pfoUvHWvbXkwSwVnF01Byb-M

Why do kids hate school and what can we do about it? 

https://www.spreaker.com/user/markbarnes19/128-why-do-kids-hate-school-and-what-can?fbclid=IwAR1ZZ5AmC_0uLUxTn_HBDflIHvjBQDA16ShKhtaK0zQtZ3gXolB94SSJbz8

A Better Way to Integrate Edtech

https://www.edutopia.org/article/better-way-integrate-edtech?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Armed with mobile devices, students can learn anything, from anyone, anywhere, and at any time. This undermines the authority and control of the traditional teacher and can feel incredibly daunting.

We should also bear in mind that a teacher may thoughtfully evaluate a use of technology within the context of his or her class and decide that what we’re promoting isn’t right for that context.

Yes, let's take a walk down that country road

Paul Cezanne - Houses along a Road

JAMES TAYLOR - COUNTRY ROAD 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGK0xWddnNk 

"Country Road"

Take to the highway, won't you lend me your name?
Your way and my way seem to be one and the same.
Mamma don't understand it, she wants to know where I've been.
I'd have to be some kind of natural born fool to want to pass that way again,
But I could feel it on a country road.

Sail on home to Jesus, won't you good girls and boys.
I'm all in pieces, you can have your own choice.
But I can hear a heavenly band full of angels and they're coming to set me free.
I don't know nothing 'bout the why or when but I can tell that it's bound to be,
because I could feel it, child, yeah, on a country road.

I guess my feet know where they want me to go walking on a country road.

Take to the highway, won't you lend me your name?
Your way and my way seem to be one and the same.
Mamma don't understand it, she wants to know where I've been.
I'd have to be some kind of natural born fool to want to pass that way again,
But I could feel it on a country road.

Walk on down, walk on down, walk on down, walk on down, walk on down a country road.
Na na na na na na na na na na na, country road, yeah, walking on a country road...

Educational Links 10/27/18

50 Of The Best Podcasts For High School Students

https://www.teachthought.com/education/50-of-the-best-podcasts-for-high-school-students/

At a Glance: Classroom Accommodations for Dysgraphia

https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/partnering-with-childs-school/instructional-strategies/at-a-glance-classroom-accommodations-for-dysgraphia?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg&fbclid=IwAR1y-LIOy_ku7NbocOF_cdvbvvpZslLkjRXiqQlWJDoYz4eC8vO_U5OYg1A

The Importance of Mental Health Awareness in Schools

https://www.wgu.edu/heyteach/article/importance-mental-health-awareness-schools?fbclid=IwAR3DXuGIk6ex_aSPxEBTB2pHyqYEF3S5-5yCrVeGLe3EoIHMa7U7xNft0Vk

How Do You Turn Around an Out-of-Control Class?

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2018/10/how_do_you_turnaround_an_out-of-control_class.html?fbclid=IwAR0PpOauIA5n87quktH8vXKR3fj9gIvDqJtOiSOwtZaniWuSZHivXFP6uDw

15 Apps, Tools, and Gadgets for ADHD Brains: Reader Recommendations

https://www.additudemag.com/adhd-productivity-apps-tools/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=treatment&fbclid=IwAR1HjoNzEYLDsDcGdxcLHbMtBzL9Z2MCawUA58Zv4szLgqdnZs9XSW6rzTM

Do Learning Centers and Seatwork Improve Reading Achievement?

http://www.readingrockets.org/blogs/shanahan-literacy/do-learning-centers-and-seatwork-improve-reading-achievement?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ReadingRockets_TeachingReading+%28Reading+Rockets%3A+Teaching+Reading+Resources%29

Research is very supportive of cooperative learning groups, so you might have some luck combining that with project learning activities, but cooperative learning requires some real knowledge. You’d have to study up on that if you wanted to really be successful.

Writing is another activity that can fill such space. Perhaps doing a writing lesson prior to meeting with reading groups, and then having kids working on their compositions while you work with groups would be useful (again, as long as they stay on task).

Overall, my message would be to minimize this kind of independent work, seatwork, center time, or on-one’s-own computer assignments. It’s better for the kids to work with the teacher and to work with each other.

Educational Links 10/26/18

Eight Ways to Transform Special Education

https://blog.sfgate.com/storystudio/2018/08/28/eight-ways-to-transform-special-education/?fbclid=IwAR0tJsU1jp32LDMPirE_iA7hxtatClt9JXXZIRIIUwk5tvAQW9614a0hzhg

5 critical guidelines for data privacy across school districts 

https://edscoop.com/5-critical-guidelines-for-data-privacy-across-school-districts/

5 WAYS FOR TEACHERS TO TAKE BACK TIME AND MAKE THE MOST OF IT

http://www.coolcatteacher.com/e380/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CoolCatTeacherBlog+%28Cool+Cat+Teacher+Blog%29

How the Pressure of Having a Cute Classroom Can Get in the Way of Learning

https://www.weareteachers.com/cute-classrooms-are-overrated/

How easy high schools are failing their students

https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-how-easy-high-schools-are-failing-their-students/

Why Principals Need to Make Student Mental Health a Priority

https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2018/10/17/why-principals-need-to-make-student-mental.html

Building a Supportive Classroom Community in Early Childhood

https://www.edutopia.org/article/building-supportive-classroom-community-early-childhood?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=facebook

Preventing bullying in the early grades starts with fostering an environment that is safe for all students.

Educational Links 10/25/18

Mindset and Attitude Affect Our Interactions in Leadership

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/work_in_progress/2018/10/mindset_and_attitude_impact_in.html?override=web&fbclid=IwAR1WlBQdb52ZCgAt8WuOgOvhvYYMtgl29INoDTU0vBBhxDr5K8wKso46ZEE

An Authentic Connection to Learning

https://www.edutopia.org/article/authentic-connection-learning?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Mental Health in the Classroom

https://t.e2ma.net/webview/301u6b/a8a7de456884f8c821096dd4983530ad?fbclid=IwAR3399ng-SzYjtR9Hiwk9NNosaD4H120Bp8KnTksHjQHCJ7oZbSU9v69A5k

At a Glance: Classroom Accommodations for ADHD

https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/partnering-with-childs-school/instructional-strategies/at-a-glance-classroom-accommodations-for-adhd?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg&fbclid=IwAR0KVdoSI1IVaAK9bRAPDEtlm8k7IG0n5Yy1A4k0B9UIW6ZC8VlgMPssz8M

Dyslexia and Anxiety: What You Need to Know

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/dyslexia/dyslexia-and-anxiety-in-children?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg&fbclid=IwAR2UeCesxPLqCEFPUbGYc1M8kppE4WBOw_l5_Ym-ywuABRghDQ5zovlomR8 

English Learners and Learning Challenges 

HTTPS://WWW.GSE.HARVARD.EDU/NEWS/UK/18/10/ENGLISH-LEARNERS-AND-READING-CHALLENGES

NEW STUDY SUGGESTS THAT A TEACHER’S IMPACT ON STUDENT BEHAVIOR MORE IMPORTANT THAN TEST SCORES

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2018/10/23/new-study-suggests-that-a-teachers-impact-on-student-behavior-more-important-than-test-scores/?fbclid=IwAR2HxgzpKk7mOFC4d1s0G3QYZNWDtM_wdR3Y42OAtm9SyFUxH5dm1XKwnyE

You’ll want to read his entire article, if not the full study, but I think the sentence at the top of this blog post is the “money quote”: he finds that teachers’ impact on student behavior has a greater impact on “future success” than their impact on student test scores. Here’s how an article in Ed Week about the study defines what that means:

Future success includes graduating from high school on time, having a higher GPA at graduation, taking the SAT, and reporting intentions to enroll in a four-year college.

Journaling 10/25/18

The morns are meeker than they were - (32)

BY EMILY DICKINSON__

The morns are meeker than they were - 

The nuts are getting brown -

The berry’s cheek is plumper -

The rose is out of town. 

The maple wears a gayer scarf -

The field a scarlet gown -

Lest I sh'd be old-fashioned 

I’ll put a trinket on.

Wazzup in MzT's Class 10/22-10/26 2018

This week we are emphasizing outside reading with weekly summaries and check and a push towards the classics.

Grade 10 will start The Last of the Mohicans, and Grade 12 will start 'MacBeth.' The other grades are enjoying folklore, fairytales, and myths.

Reviewing Literary Genres

https://mztsclass.blogspot.com/2018/10/reviewing-literary-genres.html

7, 9 Fables and Fairytales--Beauty and the Beast

https://mztsclass.blogspot.com/2018/10/7-9-fables-and-fairytales-beauty-and.html

12 What is Drama? Intro to Shakespeare
https://mztsclass.blogspot.com/2018/10/12-what-is-drama-intro-to-shakespeare.html

Prefixes and Roots 7 &8

https://mztsclass.blogspot.com/2018/10/prefixes-and-roots-7.html

https://mztsclass.blogspot.com/2018/10/10-what-is-novel.html

10 James Fenimore Cooper Bio

https://mztsclass.blogspot.com/2018/10/10-james-fennimore-cooper-bio.html