Paperless Is Not A Pedagogy
Are the Students Learning or Is the Teacher? A Guest Post by Erin Whalen I have had the privilege of hearing Alice speak several times now, and while I have learned a LOT from her, there is one particular phrase that has really made me stop and think about my own practices. It’s sort of…
Use Google Sheets to Guide Class Analysis Every week the New York Times is providing a graph for teachers to use with their students. Using this free activity you can easily include ANALYZE into your lesson plans. The problem with a class discussion can be that not all students can participate in each prompt. “What…
When we say paperless we do not say kids. We do not say learning. We do not say student engagement. For sure we do not say student engagement. Conversations around going paperless miss the focus of why we even teach in the first place. What is good for learning? Looking at research, the answer is…
Redo Is Good for Learning On our road trip from LA to Chicago myself, Lisa Dabbs, Christine Pinto, and Sarah Kerns stopped along the way to do PD at schools. You can find my slides at alicekeeler.com/isteroadtrip. One of the tips I shared was around the paradigm shift that technology allows around redo’s. Without technology…
Cooperative Tasks Cooperative tasks improve learning! “Robert Marzano and John Hattie both agree that getting students to work with each other helps them to achieve better results. The use of cooperative learning groups adds value to whole-class instruction.” “Bandura’s Social Learning Theory posits that people learn from one another.” When we do things together we…
Helping Students Make the Leap from Inquiry to Creativity Guest Post: Dr. Nathan Lang-Raad is a speaker and author (Everyday Instructional Coaching: 7 Daily Drivers to support Teacher Effectiveness). He is the Chief Education Officer at WeVideo and is a former teacher, vice principal, professor, district curriculum and instruction director, and education supervisor at NASA….
Try Out the 5 E’s Lesson Plan The 5 E’s lesson plan template is relatively new, did not exist when I was in my teacher prep program (or at least to my knowledge.) It was specifically designed for math and science but is a great outline for any subject area. I previously blogged on this…
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning Jennifer Gonzalez (@cultofpedagogy) does it again with a brilliant blog post on improving learning. Previously I shared her post on Worksheet Packets where she identifies what a worksheet is and alternative ideas to using packets. We are all guilty of doing what was done to us as…
Frickin Packets by @cultofpedagogy I really enjoyed reading Jennifer Gonzalez blog post “Frickin’ Packets” where she not only defined a worksheet but accurately identified paper printed activities that are not terrible. I can not speak for any teacher prep program but the one I was in, but my program never addressed the worksheet or the…
Try Out Breakout EDU BreakoutEDU is all things that I am into. Collaboration Gamification Critical Thinking Communicating Creative Problem Solving Context Reflection Student Engagement For #worksheetLESSwednesdays try doing a Breakout EDU with your students! Discount Code Create an account at platform.breakoutedu.com/signup. You can get started by purchasing a kit at store.breakoutedu.com. Discount code: keeler25 Students are challenged…
What is the Quality of Learning? One thing I am so grateful for is learning about DOK (Depth of Knowledge.) I did not learn this in my teacher credential program and thus never gave much thought to the depth of learning my students are engaged in. I didn’t question the types of math problems in…
5 E’s Lesson Plan Time to update from the old Madelyn Hunter lesson plan format. Rather than the skill and drill format, we want to have students explore their learning and make sense and understand. The 5 E’s lesson plan format follows this sequence: Engage Explore Explain Extend Evaluate Engage Build curiosity! How are we…
5 Vocab Practices That Need Updating By Shaelynn Farnsworth and Alice Keeler It is through language that we learn. Whether reading a novel in English class or studying the digestive system in science; students read, view, listen, and consume content through the comprehension of words. From grades K-12, students learn about 3,000 to 4,000 words a…
Consider the Amount of Learning The name of the game is learning, but we should ask “how much learning is that?” Sometimes there is a focus on assigning rather than a focus on learning. We sometimes mistakenly think we need to assign something (I am totally guilty of that), but if the amount of learning…
Does Your Lesson Have At Least One C? In planning activities for our students, the first place to start is to ensure that the activity has at least one C, and that C is not clipart. Collaborate The first thing I plan for when designing a lesson is “How will my students collaborate.” G Suite…
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