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Sarah Allred, Instructional Coach, Braxton-Craven Middle School- RCS Mrs. Allred is a great asset to our MAPSS group, and her school. She is working closely with teachers in her building, including fellow MAPSS teacher, Holly Grissom! Like many of our participants Sarah knows she can make a huge impact on her school through her position as Instructional Coach. Sarah often uses Twitter to connect her PBL knowledge to other sources of professional development. | Nicole Hooker, Kindergarten Teacher, BH Tharrington Primary School- MACS Mrs. Hooker's class is our only Kindergarten class in the MAPSS grant, cohort # 1. She started her PBL work with the repository case, Geopolis. This case helps students explore geometric concepts, written for 2nd grade but easily adapted to other grades. Great Uncle Shapus became very popular in the Kindergarten classroom! | Anthony Finlen, 5th Grade Teacher, Randleman Middle School- RCS Mr. Finlen has been using PBL in his 5th grade classroom and is now seeing students use the strategies on their own. All classrooms must have consistent use of the PBL strategies in order to reach this point. We cannot get "bogged" down with worrying about doing a PBL all the time. However, we can implement strategies like the Knows and Need to Knows many times throughout our instructional day, and we can do this in all subject areas. Little steps like these will support our students learning in the PBL environment. #GreatTwitterMoment |
Sarah Allred, Instructional Coach, Braxton-Craven Middle School- RCS
Mrs. Allred is a great asset to our MAPSS group, and her school. She is working closely with teachers in her building, including fellow MAPSS teacher, Holly Grissom! Like many of our participants Sarah knows she can make a huge impact on her school through her position as Instructional Coach. Sarah often uses Twitter to connect her PBL knowledge to other sources of professional development.
Nicole Hooker, Kindergarten Teacher, BH Tharrington Primary School- MACS
Mrs. Hooker's class is our only Kindergarten class in the MAPSS grant, cohort # 1. She started her PBL work with the repository case, Geopolis. This case helps students explore geometric concepts, written for 2nd grade but easily adapted to other grades. Great Uncle Shapus became very popular in the Kindergarten classroom!
Anthony Finlen, 5th Grade Teacher, Randleman Middle School- RCS
Mr. Finlen has been using PBL in his 5th grade classroom and is now seeing students use the strategies on their own. All classrooms must have consistent use of the PBL strategies in order to reach this point. We cannot get "bogged" down with worrying about doing a PBL all the time. However, we can implement strategies like the Knows and Need to Knows many times throughout our instructional day, and we can do this in all subject areas. Little steps like these will support our students learning in the PBL environment. #GreatTwitterMoment
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Anna Ruth Crouse, Lead Teacher, Fair Grove Elementary School- DCS Mrs. Crouse works with all teachers, K-5, serving as a Lead Teacher. She represents MAPSS well in her school by helping share her new knowledge of PBL and the 5 standards of authentic instruction. Recently on Edmodo she shared the latest celebration of PBL in 1st grade. "Just finished visiting the fifth first grade classroom to complete a PBL, Three Little Addends. All 99 of our first graders did an outstanding job creating games to help the class next door learn how to add three addends. This last class even created a game board to go along with their game. So proud of the students at Fair Grove!" | Holly Grissom, 6th Grade Teacher, Braxton Craven Middle School- RCS Mrs. Grissom has displayed PBL and the 5 standards of authentic instruction in her own classroom, as well as promoting math school-wide. Recently she worked to facilitate a Math Fair that demonstrated how math is connected to the real world. Parents and community members came together to work with the students of BCMS. Sounds a lot like one of our standards of authentic instruction. :) #ThinkingOutsidetheBox | Amanda Robertson, 4th Grade Teacher, Jones Intermediate School- MACS Mrs. Robertson has journeyed through approximately 6 problem/project based learning cases already this year. Her most recent project-based learning case is called Hole in One. This case was a high-school level case shared by Joe as a possible solution to meet Mrs. Robinson's standards. After some strategic planning, followed by collaboration with Joe she was able to kick off this case in her classroom. Students are highly engaged in their learning of lines, angles, points, line segments and rays! Mrs. Robertson also collaborates consistently with her teammate, Lauren Murphy, also a fellow MAPSS teacher. Together these two teachers are rocking the 4th grade at Jones! |
Anna Ruth Crouse, Lead Teacher, Fair Grove Elementary School- DCS
Mrs. Crouse works with all teachers, K-5, serving as a Lead Teacher. She represents MAPSS well in her school by helping share her new knowledge of PBL and the 5 standards of authentic instruction. Recently on Edmodo she shared the latest celebration of PBL in 1st grade. "Just finished visiting the fifth first grade classroom to complete a PBL, Three Little Addends. All 99 of our first graders did an outstanding job creating games to help the class next door learn how to add three addends. This last class even created a game board to go along with their game. So proud of the students at Fair Grove!"
Holly Grissom, 6th Grade Teacher, Braxton Craven Middle School- RCS
Mrs. Grissom has displayed PBL and the 5 standards of authentic instruction in her own classroom, as well as promoting math school-wide. Recently she worked to facilitate a Math Fair that demonstrated how math is connected to the real world. Parents and community members came together to work with the students of BCMS. Sounds a lot like one of our standards of authentic instruction. :) #ThinkingOutsidetheBox
Amanda Robertson, 4th Grade Teacher, Jones Intermediate School- MACS
Mrs. Robertson has journeyed through approximately 6 problem/project based learning cases already this year. Her most recent project-based learning case is called Hole in One. This case was a high-school level case shared by Joe as a possible solution to meet Mrs. Robinson's standards. After some strategic planning, followed by collaboration with Joe she was able to kick off this case in her classroom. Students are highly engaged in their learning of lines, angles, points, line segments and rays! Mrs. Robertson also collaborates consistently with her teammate, Lauren Murphy, also a fellow MAPSS teacher. Together these two teachers are rocking the 4th grade at Jones!
