Does your district operate under a modified calendar? What is your start and end date? What would your ideal school year calendar look like?
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Our second grade team is starting with different types of graphs. What resources or read alouds would you recommend for them?
Chemistry is too hard for elementary...or is it? Use this lesson to teach your students more about endothermic and exothermic reactions while they learn the basics of chemistry.
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Does anyone have a good resource for science experiments or simulations that allow students to interact with content and data simultaneously?
Not a question per se, but I wanted to share a book I’m reading this year that I think is a struggle for all teachers in the area of mathematics instruction.
“Underestimated and over- scaffolded” is what stood out to me and mostly because I know that I am guilty of both as a teacher.
Has anyone read this book?
What are some things you do at the start of the school year to build relationships with students?
What are some of your most effective methods for building a positive classroom community?
How do you manage difficult parents that seem to blame teachers for their child's behavior and absences?
When setting up and cleaning out spaces in your classroom, how do you decide what stays and what goes?
How do your students get to play? Here’s a peek at how my Kinders get to play!
How do you set up your classroom? How do these decisions influence and prioritize learning?
What are some classroom management rituals or practices that you start at the beginning of the year?
What happens when science experiments don’t go exactly as planned? How do you improvise?
What are some of your favorite places to find warm-up questions or problems of the day for math? I had a friend just recommend this site to me and it's awesome! https://www.wouldyourathermath.com I'm looking for more great ideas!
I'm looking for advice: I am a math interventionist and in my new school, I have an assistant, which is completely new for me! I have met her and we seem to hit it off super well. I'm just looking for ideas on how to balance leading her and also give her autonomy to use ideas that she also has for our small groups. She has experience so it's not as though this is brand new to her.
What are classroom positive behavior strategies to use? I have tried marble jar and reward tickets before.
Innovative instructional strategies:
What are some of your favorite instructional strategies?
One of my absolute favorite strategies for reading fluency - and even oral language development - is utilizing silly voices! I have created over 200 voices for educators and families to use! Teachers and families can take advantage of early literacy reader's theater scripts and implement repeated readings using a variety of these voices. It is SO much (more) fun to read or speak in a silly voice!
Voices provide skill development in prosody, inflection, word attack, and so much more!
Check out these FREE resources at: https://www.ginapepin.com/apps-1/teaching-resources
Foundational reading skills for K-2:
How do you teach reading to a group of students of different reading levels?
To begin the school year, I use a Google spreadsheet to help organize data. I take pre and post test/assessment data from summer school assessments/projects, a student's spring and fall Acadience score (including sub test scores), and their spring, *summer (if applicable) and fall NWEA MAPs ELA score and organize, analyze etc. and arrange students by skill discrepancy, need etc... students less than 9%tile in multiple areas - and data points - are considered Tier 3 in our system and I meet with them asap for intervention. Students in Tier 3 reading intervention are grouped this way - but students in Tier 2 are grouped by classroom times (for ease of scheduling per teacher request) first, and then they are broken up into smaller groups to better align with skill gaps.
