How do you choose professional development opportunities that align with your teaching goals and the needs of your students?

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How would you plan a lesson for a standard about comparing and contrasting key points from 2 different mediums for older students?

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How do you help students see themselves in your classroom space?

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What Kagan strategies do you find most helpful for cooperative learning?

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What strategies could be used to support an upper elementary student with a learning disability and speech language impairment in constructing grammatically correct sentences. Often, for these students on my caseload, I find that they struggle to apply conventions when writing down their ideas. Run-on sentences (or even just seemingly jumbled words) are frequent!

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How would you introduce students to plotting points on a coordinate plane for the first time?

Immerse them in the experience. Using painter's tape(much better than masking tape for removing it cleanly) create a coordinate plane on the floor. Then make a game out of it having them move from the x negative and positive to the negative and positive . Have them go back to their seat and provide them drawing paper and have them draw the plane they moved through. Give them a game piece, or using their fingers and have them do the same thing in 2 dimensions. The next day, have them use that same drawing to label their lines with positive and negative numbers and the x and y. (Using graph paper will help them keep the numbers even spaced. Now using colored pencils have them mark dots/points of coordinates within the plane paying particular attention the the 0,0 or 0,-5 point types.

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We are trying out Delta Math this summer … do you have any experiences or insight to share for this resource?

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Does anyone have a good resource for science experiments or simulations that allow students to interact with content and data simultaneously?

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How do you teach telling time to students using an analog clock? I like to use this video: https://youtu.be/jGtBYUQKF4M?si=Zh3Uwufj1A1qbykK It has a catchy tune that helps the students with skip counting by 5's and also teaches the students multiplication as she is counting by 5's. This video has helped my students to remember what each number on the clock stands for.

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How do you ensure that your lesson plans are aligned with both state standards and student needs?

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How do you get 2nd graders interested in writing? I like to use pictures and have students write down what they see. I also like to use story starters.

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How do you teach 2nd graders comprehension skills?

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Causation or correlation?

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What is tough for kids about being social?

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I’m loving this idea—what are some ways you build discussion with your students?

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This is something I just recently started doing with my third through fifth grade intervention students: when we have an exit ticket, I will leave some highlighters next to the turn in bin. Students highlight their name when they turn in the assignment: green if they feel like they got it; yellow if they feel like they mostly have it; and orange if they are still struggling. This provides them some self advocacy and allows them to share with just me that they may need more help or that they felt great about the assignment!

What are some ways you practice self-assessment with students?

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Find out some very easy ways families can incorporate reading into a morning routine!

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Ahhh....the good ole days.

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One of my favorite things to do as a family - to promote family literacy - has been to create a Holiday Family Story. Together, all 5 of us write a silly story that summarizes our experiences throughout the year. We begin with the same starting sentence each year and then each family member adds a sentence or paragraph. How do you incorporate family literacy fun into holiday celebrations?

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How can we reassure parents that struggling with reading is not a reflection of their child's potential, but rather a natural part of the learning process?

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