Creativity and Time
When students are able to use their creativity in the classroom they are better able to express their understanding of a topic. On the surface, creative endeavors can look simplistic and juvenile but...
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Spotlight on Strategies – Instagram As a language arts teacher I am always looking for new ways to engage my students in responding to literature and nonfiction writing. By sixth grade the kids have...
View ArticleUsing Technology to Promote Collaboration
I’ve always used collaboration in my classroom and found that students either love to collaborate or hate it. Those who love it possess the skills to negotiate with other students and enjoy the...
View ArticleDeveloping a Respectful and Ethical Mind
Discovery Education Digital Board I really enjoyed this weeks assignment. I hadn’t used Discovery Education’s Board Builder so the experience was new to me. I was fortunate enough to attend a...
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Inquiry-based Learning
Early in the school year, I explain to my students that the expectations in my class are to, not only learn material, but also to apply that knowledge to a new situation. At first this can be an...
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Chocolate, Red Wine, and iPads
Lower your risk of heart disease by eating chocolate. Chocolate causes migraine headaches. Red wine causes breast cancer. Wine reduces risk of stroke, heart attack, cataracts. Using an iPad or...
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Creating Meaning from Chaos through Curating
One of the teachers that I work with always jokes with me, if there’s an easy way of doing things and a hard way, he says, you’ll find the hard way. I’m the person who tends to get myself started...
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Thoughts on Inquiry-Based Learning
Inquiry based learning is natural for the science classroom. The readings and videos from this weeks assignments illustrated the variety of techniques that could be used for inquiry learning. The...
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HOW DO YOU 1:1?
Good News, Bad News The good news: every student in my class has a district issued chromebook. The bad news: every student in my class has a district issued chromebook. Okay, so the statement...
View ArticlePracticing Somersaults Before I Flip
What is Flipped Learning? In its purest sense, a flipped classroom is one where students learn at home by watching a video or lecture and practice the skills taught at school. When I first heard about...
View ArticleInquiry Based Learning Across the Curriculum
When I learned about the scientific method in middle school, I became a better writer. I know, this doesn’t seem to make sense. What does science learning have to do with writing? As an elementary...
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Gamification is Hard Work!
What is Gamification? According to badgeville.com, gamification is “the concept of applying game mechanics and game design techniques to engage and motivate people to achieve their goals. [It] taps...
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Fitting a Square Peg in a Round Hole?
Although much of this course uses science examples to show inquiry based learning, I have found it relatively easy to find resources that have guided me to incorporate the philosophies and techniques...
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Inquiry Based Learning – What I Know Now
Inquiry based learning is not a style of teaching At first I thought that inquiry based learning was a style of teaching. That if you committed to it, your whole classroom was an inquiry based...
View ArticleCentered in the Middle
I’ve loved investigating ideas and best practices in using centers and stations in a middle school language arts classroom. Check out my Flipboard here!
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