What are some tools you use to measure fact fluency for elementary school students?
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What are some great math read alouds for elementary (3-5th grades specifically)? Bonus if it’s a chapter book!
Students need to see theirselves in what they read. What are your favorite diverse read aloud? Post below!
Names are important and this is one of my favorites to read and discuss!
What are somethings that your school does to build staff morale?
Which Kagan strategies do you find the most useful in your classroom? I like to use quiz-quiz-trade and talking chips. Both of these strategies help the students with their speaking and listening skills.
How do you teach students in grades K-2 on how to explain their work? I give my students sentence stems with the words first, next, then, and last. I also teach sequencing to help keep my students organized.
How do you keep parents informed about their child's progress in school? I make sure that I keep my grades current so that my parents can see how their child is doing in our portal.
What assessments do you use to help determine what students need for reading intervention? I use 95% group at my school district.
What are your favorite read alouds for K-5 aged students? I am always looking for new books to add to my collection!
As a teacher of students with learning disabilities, I find that, especially as they grow, motivation can be a challenge. How do you find ways to motivate your students who struggle most with learning?
What are your most favorite field trips that you’ve taken with your students and how did they tie into your content?
What is your favorite reward for students? What do you celebrate? In first grade we set many small goals to get to a larger goal like learn 10 sight words or read 10 books. Each Friday as goals are met I give an invitation to lunch club. Students eat with me and we chat or watch a quick show while we eat. It has been a favorite for many years.
My best advice to any educator is to SAVE YOUR YES! You will be asked to do all the things. It is important to practice saying no. I’m doing this right now ask me again later. Save your yes for what you are passionate about and it will never feel like work. I love literacy, equity & inclusion, and growing our profession. I save my YES for those areas and even when I am doing a lot, I am doing what I love! Write it on a sticky note in all your spaces to SAVE YOUR YES! Let me know how it goes. 🫶🏽
My class is doing a First Grade Zoo project in which students in all grades and parents will be joining us for an oral presentation in which my students present and others can ask questions quickly. I have worked with a newer student with no English language from Guatemala. Other than Google Translate what can I do to include him in the presentations Friday? We have his poster and paragraph in English and Spanish, I am wondering if there is anything else out there to create independence for my ELL student in this activity?
What are some great new reads for teachers?
I just finished Lifelong Kindergarten and it was FANTASTIC!! What are other suggestions?
What is an effective tool that I can use in my classroom to support learning?
Here is a quick video on one of the many ways you can use playdough to aid in reading fluency!
What are some ways that you help yourself grow as a professional?
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?
