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Does anyone have a Maker Space in your schools and how is it run? Do you incorporate Maker Space into your classroom spaces?
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How do you encourage critical thinking and inquiry-based learning in your science classroom?
Giving students brain breaks throughout the day is so important! What are some of your favorites and when do you use them?
How do you organize your small literacy group materials, both those materials you will use to teach and those materials your students will use?
This year my class is having a "family luncheon". The parents have volunteered to bring the food and we will share in a time of thanksgiving. During the time, I have the students and parents write on a little note care what they are thankful for. I take those notes and type them into a document and send it to the parents. This is a great way to get parents support and build community. What are some other ideas that you have used to build community?
What are some great resources for digital field trips that you use? I ❤️ 💗 ❤️ cilc.org. My 5th graders in Kansas have met with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, rangers from the National Park Services, docents from the National Archives, as well as several other locales across the United States!! (BTW, all .gov type institutions are FREE, as well as many others).
How do you manage difficult parents that seem to blame teachers for their child's behavior and absences?
Has anyone published a class book with their students? I have done this in the past and it is a good way to help students with opinion writing and to see what they have learned about a particular subject. I use a company called Student Treasures. This is there website: https://studentreasures.com. I am showing pictures of 2 books that I have published with my students. I usually invite parents to my classroom for a book party and each student reads their page. They really enjoy it and it builds community.
My new school is looking for ways that related arts (music, art, and PE) can integrate math into their lessons easily. Any ideas or research that you’ve found that helps this work? We are doing this Kinder through 5th grade.
How do you have your students to self assess themselves. I have pictures with the numbers of 1, 2, 3 and 4. 1 means that they still don't understand, 2 means that they are starting to understand. 3 means they can do it by themselves, and 4 means they can do it by themselves and teach others. I am attaching some examples I have used for 3 and 4.
As a math interventionist (but honestly I wish I would have thought of this as a general education teacher too!), I added a basketball hoop to my wishlist--the link is below. This has been a GAME changer (pun intended) to math fact fluency and review questions, especially with my male students! I can think of so many ways I would have used it as a general homeroom teacher too especially with trashketball (pdf attached as well). What are some other ways you get your students up and moving while also learning?
I am a teacher that plans to retire from the classroom BUT, I love opportunities to lead from the classroom. I’ve chaired committees at the local and state level and am now working with NBCT nationally. https://www.nbpts.org/about/what-book-committee/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3GxulKXE_r9V77pVGdDhEihrVre6tFZpUCM8wolpUrMQOsJBb7HvAjQ7A_aem_Ab0wdKhWHcrhy1S1q64C-qIlhMXqESSKBFOiEqFK0-P2rSqtoNgPuxrA1HnfA-6SLPBb7sL9aVKn2_2gy63QVKVj
My district allows me opportunities to grow professionally and I appreciate this so much. What do you do you do to grow professionally?
What are strategies you use to keep advanced 1st graders challenged that don’t require another teacher or teaching assistant?
In what ways do you collaborate with other teachers throughout the summer when you were no longer in the same building routinely?
