Succeeding in a Diverse Classroom
Best Practices & Resources
Volume I-Issue 6-August, 2018
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.
Melanie Yocom
ESC11 Instructional Content Coach
Email: myocom@esc11.net
Website: http://www.esc11.net/
Phone: 817-740-7563
Twitter: @myocomesc11
Goodbye Summer & Hello professional development, compliance videos, schedules, class lists, classroom set up, and more that you don't even know about yet!
It can be hard to get motivated about another school year. Teaching is tough work! The below speech by Admiral William H McRaven is inspiring and provides 10 life lessons applicable to both adults and students. (1st video-speech highlights, 2nd video-full speech)
Admiral Willaim McRaven's 10 Life Lessons:
- Start off by making your bed
- Find someone to help you paddle
- Measure a person by the size of their heart NOT the size of their flippers
- Get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward
- Don't be afraid of the circuses
- Sometimes you have to slide down the obstacle head first
- Don't back down from the sharks
- You must be your very best in the darkest moment
- Start singing when you're up to your neck in mud
- Don't ever, ever ring the bell-NEVER give up
https://youtu.be/U6OoCaGsz94
https://youtu.be/esoQKkFQoIQ
Techie Highlight
If you don't read the article above, here are a few of the tools that stood out.
Ed Tech Tools to Try:
- Tool that will take anything you find on the internet and turn it into a lesson! https://insertlearning.com/
- It's been around, but if you haven't tried FlipGrid you should! This is a great way to get students to interact. www.flipgrid.com
- This site will make social studies/history teachers excited! https://newseumed.org/
Sites to Bookmark:
- Create class lists, activities, assignments, and assessments Vocabulary.com 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 Powerpoints & 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, speaking http://wordgen.serpmedia.org/
- English Learner Teacher Support http://www.colorincolorado.org/
- Writing Guru Gretchen Bernabei http://trailofbreadcrumbs.net/
- Free reading passagess & 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/
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