BTSD's Curriculum Cafe
Little bites of Curriculum and Technology ideas! (12/15)
Leadership Quote of the Week:
Leading with curiosity is better than leading by decree. Respond to problems and complaints with, “What can we do to make it better?” - The Leadership Freak
Curriculum Mapper
We are look forward to "opening" Curriculum Maps to the staff. Our curriculum coordinators have been working on maps in an effort to make curriculum accessible and clear to new teachers/interim teachers who quickly need to know what is taught. We greatly appreciate everyone's past, current and future participation in this huge project!
Plickers!!!!!
Plickers is the ingenious way to get an affordable student response system using paper and a smart phone/device. Many thanks to Mrs. Hentz for sending me this site and giving me my December forehead smack for not thinking of this first!
How do you create a blog in Schoolwires?
Check out the instructional video that shows you how to create a blog on Schoolwires. This is a good tutorial that shows you all of the settings to consider with learning tool.
Hots for Teachers!
Here is a site that gives specific examples of higher order thinking activities. If you feel like a particular lesson is getting old then check out this list and see if you can make things more interesting. This list came from Tech & Learning where you will find even more HOTS activities.
I Heart Teachers: What Great Teaching Looks Like!
The TeachingChannel is an interesting site that provides videos of teacher instruction. The teachers and students are very real and all of us will identify with one or two teachers from this video. I like this video because it shows real the student responses (you'll see what I mean) and questioning techniques the teachers use. Enjoy!
I Heart Teachers: What Great Teaching Looks Like
Here is Mr. Cacchio's Wisdom for December!
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