Succeeding in a Diverse Classroom
Best Practices & Resources
Volume 2, Issue 11-January 2020
Welcome!
My goal is to be a resource to you with monthly tips that support you and your students within an ever-changing, diverse classroom.
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it." ~ Winston Churchill
Melanie Yocom
Education Service Center Region 11| ESSA Team Lead
Email: myocom@esc11.net
Website: http://www.esc11.net/
Phone: 817-740-7563
Twitter: @myocomesc11
New Year, New Start
Although we are not starting a new school year, the spring semester is an opportunity to start fresh.
Below are 36 ideas to try in 2020 for classroom management, instruction, and MORE!
Techie Highlight
Bring Storybooks to Life with VOOKS!
What is Vooks?
Vooks is a streaming library of animated children's storybooks.
- No ads or in-app purchases
- A curated library
- Text animates as it is read aloud
- FREE for teachers for 1 year
Sites to Bookmark:
- Read, Write, Speak https://thinkalong.org
- Make Beliefs Comix https://www.makebeliefscomix.com/
- Digital Tool https://www.tes.com/lessons
- Digital Tool https://padlet.com
- Promote listening & speaking https://flipgrid.com/
- Create class lists, activities, assignments, and assessments https://www.vocabulary.com
- Classroom Screen https://classroomscreen.com/
- Interactive classroom in real time https://www.classkick.com
- K-5 Reading Student Centers http://www.fcrr.org/resources/resources_sca.html
- Free Content Power Points & Interactive activities http://www.pppst.com/
- Transform lessons to make learning impactful and engaging, or allow students to create animated products to show mastery https://www.powtoon.com/edu-home/
- Current event articles to promote critical reading, writing, and speaking http://wordgen.serpmedia.org/
- English Learner Teacher Support http://www.colorincolorado.org/
- Writing Guru Gretchen Bernabei http://trailofbreadcrumbs.net/
- Free reading passages & literacy resources https://www.commonlit.org/
- 2,000+ multidisciplinary wonders https://wonderopolis.org/
- Free reading passages by lexile level and content https://www.readworks.org/
- Lead4ward.com http://lead4ward.com/resources/
Event Information
Engaging ALL Students in a Language-Rich Classroom
Participants will learn how to promote language development by creating a language-rich classroom. Specific activities and strategies that target academic language will be experienced and practiced by participants.
Register here: https://registration.esc11.net/catalog/sessions/24321/46359
When?
Wednesday, Feb 12, 2020, 08:30 AM
Where?
Education Service Center Region 11, South Cherry Lane, White Settlement, TX, USA
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