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Laura Carroll posted
One of my favorite books is “Better Learning Through Structured Teaching” by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey. It is focused around how to implement The Gradual Release of Responsibility Framework. The following section is one I would like to share from this text:
When teachers are gradually releasing responsibility to students, formative…Read More
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Laura Carroll posted
Here are great tools that will allow you to give students immediate feedback and provide yourself with real-time data. I use these in my classroom on a regular basis! Great assessment tools!
1. Play a quick formative assessment game. There are lots of great techy options here. Kahoot!. Quizizz. Quizlet Live. The list goes on and on. If we want…Read More
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Love this! Amazing how competitive students come when formatively assessing in this way.
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My kids love Quizziz! One of the teachers at our school introduced me to it a couple of months ago. This really is a great resource…a win-win for both students and teachers.
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We love Quizizz! The resource I posted, PearDeck, has a Flashcard Factory option. Students create flashcards for vocabulary words. It is linked to and can be posted to Quizlet.
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I have been wanting to try PearDeck!
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I’ve tried it a couple different times. The kids seem to love it. I’m trying to decide if it is worth it to get everything it offers. I’ve only used the free option.
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Holley Collins posted
Here’s how we celebrated Pi Day this year in 1st Grade. This was my first time celebrating this day, so I’m sure next year will be even better.
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Celebrating Pi Day in the primary grades is a great way for students to gain prior knowledge about Pi. Thanks for sharing some grade appropriate activities.
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Holley Collins posted
A lesson video I posted to teachertube on how we celebrated the 100th day of school this year! (a little late, but better late than never…)
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Wow – so many hands-on, conceptual activities – what a great day!
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jeffcoots94 posted
The understanding of exponents can be a tricky concept to teach mainly because the amount of rules that go along with it. To make it easier and a bit more exciting for my students I gave them the option to do a parody song to get a better understanding of exponents. This assignment alone has been something that my Algebra 1 students bring up…Read More
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Once I shrink the video sizes, additional videos will be posted!
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Enjoy your shirt!
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The Gradual Release of Responsibility Framework. I think we feel we are not doing our job unless we are doing more work than the students, but truth is learning doesn’t take place unless the learner assumes responsibility. No way around it. One way to look at this is our work goes on behind the scenes and creating the learning environment. In…Read More