Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Ideas for Discussion

What does it mean when you say "The class will discuss..."  Here are 15 class discussion strategies.  I love how it is broken up into high prep strategies, low prep strategies, and ongoing.

The Big List of Class Discussion Strategies

Check out this blog!






This blog is a great resource for both new teachers and veteran teachers!

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

We have begun!!!

I don't know about you, but I feel like we have been preparing to start Lucy forever.  I was so excited when Kate e-mailed me this morning to tell me they were starting their unit on Investigative Journalism
and did I want to come in.  Well, of course I did!!!  When I got in she asked me to take a look and her mini lessons as she felt like she was repeating herself.  Kate and I discussed her lesson and she made a few tweeks to shorten her mini lesson so the kids had more time to write. The first two of writing and they wrote 2 news stories!

Monday, March 23, 2015

Speaking and Listening

Teachers of all subjects are always looking for ways to incorporate speaking and listening into their curriculum.  I came across this series of podcast which are an excellent way to practice listening and comprehension skills.  There are many different subjects and each one has a new podcast each week.