Instructional Inspirations
Cool Things to Try & Celebrate @MHS
Instructional Strategy to Try: Discussions with "Accountable Talk"
If you're struggling to get your students to have worthwhile discussions without it sounding like either absolute chaos or crickets chirping, try some of these academic conversation sentence starters. Have students work in pairs first to practice with the stems, then in a small group before extending it to whole class discussion. As students use the sentence starters, their conversations will become richer and more focused.
Give Students Cues
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Expectations in "Groups"
See it in Action at MHS!
I Can I Can!
Here is a good article about how an art teacher is using I Can statements to get her students to take more ownership of learning. If you need help crafting your I can's, please ask me or one of our ICs!
Busted! Cool Student Work
What I Love About It:
- Student creation helps kids take ownership of their learning and express their creativity!
- Respects copyright with images / music created by the student and included in the rubric.
Gummy Bear Government
What I Love About It:
- Uses different learning styles to incorporate hands-on and artistic activities.
- Ties in a literacy component with writing
- Teaching with metaphors and non-linguistic representations can boost retention by 27% (Marzano, 2001)
Did your students create something cool lately? Share it with me and I'll feature it in an upcoming newsletter!
Bathroom Pass Creativity
Tracey Waid
Email: twaid@mgsd.k12.nc.us
Website: pinterest.com/traceyrootwaid
Phone: 704-658-2616