EdutopiaEdutopia is a website that has many links that can help you as an educator in finding resources and strategies to teaching certain lessons. In this particular link it talks about opening and closing lesson strategies. The favorite one I read about was an opening activity and it is about having students share one word of how they are feeling that day Share One Word. This would really connect with how I want my classroom to feel like a community and that they can always share who they are feeling with one another.
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David GeurinDavid is a high school principal who has many different kinds of resources on his twitter. The one that I picked is called 100 Block Theory of Learning. This is an article to show just how much time our students are spending in the classroom during the school day. He has it represented by blocks, hint the name of the article, and how many blocks for a day in the life of our students. This article was interesting because it puts into picture how long our students sit in a classroom all day.
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#DitchBookOf course I decided to choose the hashtag DitchBook because it is one of Matt's biggest accomplishments in writing this book. In this first hashtag I found ways you can ditch research papers and reports and use something else. He gives TONS of different ways you can incorporate a project into your classroom, to be exact he gives ten different types. One that I glanced at was about Google Drawings. If I were an secondary teacher I would definitely recommend looking at this article to better your understanding of doing big projects.
The second resource I found under this hashtag was about Sketchnoting. This is visual note taking. this enhancing our learning because it using more than one of our senses. I watched a YouTube video to explain what exactly it is and how it is beneficial to our students. By doing this we connect verbal material with visual material. The students don't just focus on jotting down what the teacher says but also is absorbing the visual elements of the lesson. It keeps students engaged and I will definitely look into using this in my future classroom because it will also help accommodate to my different learners. The third resource that I found while looking at this hashtag was Student Created Breakout EDU games. This blog gives you step by step instructions on how to create this game which makes it very easy to do. This is great in the classroom because the students can create their own game. This puts lesson stress on the teacher and it gives the students to create something they are actually interested in. All in all this is a great strategy to have in your classroom and would be fun for students to create their own games. |