- ACT/SAT Question of the day? Week?
- Blended learning - sort of. Khan Academy etc Study Island??
- Facebook page
- Group work products - Complex Inst principles - butcher paper
- Meaningful homework - Use word wall: over the course of the six weeks, students will produce (illustrated guide / puzzle / children's book / song etc) something for all words. Math puzzles from Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities by Ian Stewart
- Experiment with IWB - Battleship!!
- Use PI office to get guest speakers
- Make infographics into posters- college, education, health, poverty etc
Yet despite my failure to successfully implement these ideas, I won't hesitate to tell you that you should never stop trying new things to improve your teaching. The minute you lose your desire to get better, to struggle to improve, you might as well start looking for a new career.
A few weeks age I told you to make a list of things you need to do better in the future before you forget them. Consider this an addendum: make a big list of bold new things you want to try out next year. Better yet, research good ideas over the summer and then make a list just before school starts.
What kind of things would be on your list? I'd love to read them in the comments.
4 comments:
Have you considered flipping your classroom. Seems like a lot of teachers are trying this with great success. It involves recording videos of yourself doing lessons. Students go home and watch the video(s) and when they come to class the next day, they are prepared. The most thorough blog I have seen is called Flipping with Kirch.
Paul, my students simply do not have the universal access that is (thankfully) becoming more and more common around the country. If they did, I would certainly like to try it.
For those curious like me, here's a link to Flipping with Kirch.
Loved this post, thanks. I too, teach in the Bay Area, but am posting from my summer get away in Barcelona! I was so inspired...
Here was my list:
-Moodle for student led questions, answers, thoughts, supplemental materials
-document camera for showing student work, saving paper, posting thoughtful ideas, etc
-interactive notebooks
-POWs to challenge supplement be provocative
Here is how much I did:
-IN notebook very successful 1 st semester. Grading took forever, quit 2nd semester because didn't want to spend my own money on new notebooks, mistake to not do
-document camera went very well, however, I was too chicken to invite more students up to use, explain etc...too teacher focused. Did save tons of paper and no one had excuses not having their books to start work.
-Use POWs to extend, strengthen, provoke, motivate. Did most of the year. Not as successful in getting a high return rate. Did get students I to computer lab through POW.
-Moodle, did not get to!
For fall:
-get a rubric for POW earlier to students. Have solutions as part on IN grade
-continue with IN notebooks
-Start with Direct teaching fractions. (help! Anyone done this in an Algebra 1 class for 9 th/10 th graders?)
-gxetmoodle act together from the beginning
Really great advice! I often look back at the list I made before school started and am disappointed in not implementing everything I had planned. Thanks for the reminder! :)
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