Co-Teaching Workshop at Community HS District 155 Last week I presented a co-teaching workshop at Community HS. Murphy’s law was in effect. Did you ever have one of those mornings in the classroom where the technology did not work? GPS Has Me Going in Circles! Well, my GPS got confused on t [...]
To help learn and remember the characters from "Romeo and Juliet," Carla Byars has students choose a character and bring in a personal theme song for each with printed lyrics. Debbie Swanson addresses foot tapping by placing carpet squares under their feet. "They love it and can stomp as loudly as [...]
Sarah Endecott gets her student's attention with a wind chime that she hangs in her classroom. "I use a wind chime to signal students to stop what they are doing and listen to what I need to tell them." She added that the chime gets their attention every time and they absolutely love the gentle soun [...]
Ruby Hibdon puts a drop of blood orange scented oil on a small piece of paper that she gives her students. She writes, "They are so into the oil that the test doesn't stress them!" Another cool tip! Thanks Ruby! [...]
One of my favorite strategies is using good, old fashioned flash cards. I've almost always used standard flash cards for study and have handwritten the questions and answers using color, pictures, and mnemonics to help me or my students remember. This time, I wanted to try doing them on the computer and taking advantage of colored fonts, san serif -fonts, photos, etc. Then I could print them out and enhance them by hand if I wanted to. I believe that many times students don't create flash cards to study from because they hate to write them out. So, this seems like a motivating avenue to explore.