October #trending
2017
Read about alternative perspectives on how to create a nurturing, respectful, and positive environment that immerses students in multimodal representations of content and empowers students to interact with resources and each other.
Ensure each student is thinking, responding, and accountable during whole group lessons (pick a minimum of one link that interests you in this section to explore)
Encourage respectful and positive behavior by utilizing private and student-owned self-monitoring strategies (pick a minimum of one link that interests you in this section to explore)
Flexible Seating - article
Behavior Blocks - teacher website
Behavior Punch Cards - teacher website
A Social-Emotional Clip Chart - teacher website
Immerse students in multimodal representations of content and empower students to interact with resources and each other (please read all of this section)
Have book buckets on your learning topics available at team tables or on the floor by your library - allow students to take a book to lunch or during bathroom breaks.
Build a digital resource that has interesting videos, songs, poems, images related to your topic - allow students to go on to the resource during independent time, bus dismissal, or when they finish work.
Load the dry erase board ledge with books on the topics you are studying - give brief book talks at the start of your units and allow students to browse and borrow your books during independent literacy, arrival and dismissal.
Have an exploration table in your room with artifacts, images, manipulatives, tools and materials for students to touch and explore - allow students to contribute to the table with related materials to share with the classroom community.
Create a space where students can write or where you can record wonderings they have about your topics - allow time to post or collect questions and do not feel obligated to answer them but use them as an example of critical thinking.
- Create a space where students can write or where you can record learning they have experienced about your topics - allow time to post or collect understandings and use the display as a demonstration of how learning grows with new experiences and information.