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Welcome Back
Hello Everyone! I hope you had a fabulously fun and relaxing summer and are feeling rejuvenated for the new school year. My summer was restful yet super busy...if that makes sense. I am so excited to be back at the same family of schools, and I am really looking forward to all the new learning that we can do together again this year!
Professional Reads
A Place for Wonder
Discover numerous practical ways — setting up "wonder centres", gathering data through the senses, teaching nonfiction craft — you can create a classroom where students' questions and observations are a part of daily learning. (K-2)
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
With the right mindset, we can motivate our kids and help them to raise their grades, as well as reach our own goals—personal and professional. (K-adult)
Engaging Readers & Writers with Inquiry
Re-framing units and lessons with questions makes learning more exciting for students. engaging authentic questions that propel students toward deep understandings. (4-8: still making my way through this one)
TV GAFE
Google Apps for Education
I have been using Google and GMail since university (and only scratching the surface)
...so I have made it my mission this year to uncover the power of GAFE in a way that makes our job in the classroom easier. If you want to explore GMail, Google Classroom, or cool Chrome Apps, Extensions & Add-ons - lets do it together, two brains are better than one!
...you do not need to have the book to do a "Number Talk" (click on title for more info)
Number talks engages students in “mental math” through grappling with interesting mathematics problems. Educators can use number talks regularly as introductions to the day’s mathematical practice, as “warm ups” for other lessons, or as stand-alone extended engagements with mathematical concepts. The teachers in these videos are from schools participating in the Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative.
connect with me
send me an email l.kokenyesi@tvdsb.on.ca
stop me in the hall
let's collaborate in class tv40781@gotvdsb.ca
follow me on Twitter @LKarts
chat over lunch
...whatever works for you!