Do you send any work home with students during school breaks? If so, what kinds of work do you send home?
How do you make the last day of school fun for your students? Are there any special activities or events that you hold?
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How do you deal with the “Sunday Scaries”? Are there any routines or things that you do to help you relax before beginning a new week?
Technology thoughts!
- What digital tool or app has transformed your teaching this year?
- How are you helping students use technology in creative—not just consumptive—ways?
- If you had one hour to show a colleague how you use tech in class, what would you spotlight?
As your students walk out the door at the end of the year, what do you want them to remember? Many teachers end their year with a final reflection project. I have seen teachers who do a themed project on a topic that the student is interested in. Some ideas included a specific dog breed, space, tornadoes, surfing, etc. The project included activities using skills that they learned through the year: writing a persuasive paper, an acrostic poem, creating a graph, making a bookmark, historical facts.... They ended their project by presenting them to parents and other classrooms in the school. This project allowed the students to reflect and celebrate their year while using their skills on a topic that was appealing to them.
What kind of activities do you have planned for your students to make the end of the year memorable?
How often does your Multi-Disciplinary team meet? In our building our team the Reading Specialist, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, School Psychologist, Principal, Speech and Language Pathologist, Nurse... and select teacher meet on a bi-weekly basis to review students in the SST/RTI process, students in the special education process (reevals, referrals, etc), attendance concerns, teacher concerns/problem solving etc.
How do you organize your classroom to maximize student learning and minimize distractions?
For all of my fellow ELA gurus: what are some ways I can help elementary teachers (for both reading and math) by teaching the parts of words in my math intervention block? I talk about vocabulary all the time (because chances are that is the reason why my students did poorly on an assessment; lack of vocabulary knowledge) but what is a more intentional way to help? I'm thinking like 'geo-' in geometry and explaining what that means--but make it fun!
Storytelling is one of the most powerful ways to build language and so many other skills. How do you incorporate storytelling into your daily routines?
Here are several pages of story stones icons you can easily glue, Modge Podge, etc to rocks of your choice!
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Does anyone have any amazing resources for grants or scholarships to present/attend large professional development conferences?
How do you use student data to inform your instructional decisions and tailor your teaching to meet diverse learning needs?
Where can I print inexpensive 18x24 or larger sized posters for professional training presentations etc? Or do you have any recommendations for a home printer that could do this?
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What advice do you have for the job search for new teachers? How can you stand out in a sea of potential candidates to help land an interview and what are there hidden "rules" to remember while applying for jobs?
Our 2nd grade teachers shared that place value was the hardest unit this year for a majority of students. We began Eureka Squared this year but they needed to find additional practice options. Do you have any go to sources for place value?
Our district just started using Clever for a single sign on so that students can easily get into district provided apps etc… how do you encourage families to utilize this in the summer? Do you organize a parent training?
