Learning Coach Corner
Volume I Issue 4
Great Things Happening in Our Classrooms at West Middle School!
25 Essential Questions (essentialquestions.org)
Strategies, Strategies, Strategies
You may choose to use a weekly entry ticket, a daily entry ticket or whatever fits your needs.
CI3T
A teacher suggested one way to revisit classroom expectations which involved input from each student. "Each student filled in two stickies – one with an expectation they thought the class was really doing a great job of, and one with an expectation that they thought their class needed to work on. Then each table made two posters. One had their four stickies of what they were crushing and one had the four stickies of what they need to work on. They discussed what they saw on the four stickies to come up with one expectation to put in the middle. Then I looked through the posters from each class to come up with a goal for them to work on." You could use Best Bucks when they reach their goal.
Mindset
Incorporating growth mindset in your classroom will improve student achievement.
Example of incorporating mindset:
- Give students a challenging problem to work on.
- Talk about and normalize struggle so students understand that it’s an important part of the learning process.
- Encourage students to ask for advice when they’re stuck and to articulate their thinking process.
- Make use of wait time to allow students the space to think and grapple with the problem.
- Reflect on the learning experience and explicitly frame struggle as a part of the learning process.
Tech Bytes!
Discovery Education United Streaming: What You Can Do: Provide students with interactive media, visuals, videos, lesson plans and much more to bring the world to students.
Lynda.com a website dedicated to technology tutorials available to you free through the Lawrence Library! You will need your library card number and a pin to login and explore.