There's been a really interesting debate on twitter & in the blogosphere this week
about graded lesson observations and how Ofsted determine the quality of teaching during an inspection.
Not exact matches
Classroom behavior mirrors this physical layout: no unauthorized talking is allowed,
lesson plans are prepared a week in advance, competition for
grades and extrinsic rewards is encouraged, wandering
about the halls during class time is severely discouraged.
I already intuit that she knows
about burdens, carrying her weekday
lesson plans and
graded first -
grade workbooks and writing
The Houston Press: San Benito Teacher Replaced After Bizarre Classroom Rant
About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, UFOs & The Apocalypse A ninth -
grade teacher at San Benito's Veterans Memorial High School has been replaced for the remainder of the year after her
lesson plan went badly awry last Tuesday and her 12 - minute rant was filmed by a student and uploaded to YouTube.
As the little ones grow, she's worrying
about school,
grades, behavior, and eventually driving
lessons, curfews, and graduation!
Kindergarten and first
grade used the garden for various science and math
lessons while fourth graders learned
about composting.
Is your job really
about the
lesson plans and
grading?
«Teachers have enough to worry
about between
lessons,
grading, managing their classroom, and the actual work of educating our children.
The Internet CBT program consisted of eight online
lessons with components similar to those used in face - to - face CBT: education
about symptoms and treatment, instruction on how to challenge the negative thoughts and core beliefs that maintain social phobia, preparation for dealing with physical symptoms of panic,
graded exposure to social situations, and techniques for relapse prevention.
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grade teacher, sharing ideas, thoughts, and
lessons I've learned from my 20 years in the classroom.
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grade teachers featuring
lesson plans, activities and free printables.
Can Yuya turn things around and teach Sora a
lesson about winning, or is Yuya's Pendulum power not going to make the
grade?
The Units build upon the prior, with the intention that by the end of Fifth
grade, students will have received almost forty
lessons directly aligned with the CCSS that additionally enhance their understanding of, and ability to, think critically
about ways to generate more kindness on an individual and global level.
And so, for example, one year when I was teaching second
grade, an English
lesson on telephone etiquette triggered some questions from my students
about how telephones work, which led us to learn how we communicate via satellite systems.
Illustrating Student Writing in
Grades 1 - 3 In this
lesson, students type a descriptive paragraph
about a person or creature they would most like to meet.
One of the
lessons taught by Learning Lab staff teacher Lucilla Ralfa when I visited recently was
about erosion: After a
lesson about the concept, the students, inner city children in
grades 4 - 6, were given dirt, sand, pebbles and rocks to make a model of a mountain that would stand up to a hurricane.
Story Maps and Boxes 6/28/2001 [Language Arts, Literature, Reading
Grades 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 - 12 Submitted by Patricia A. Fry] Patricia A. Fry, a teacher at Templeton Middle School in Sussex, Wisconsin, submitted this week's
lesson that has students creating story maps to share information
about books they have read.
Do not expect that students only will talk
about the
lesson, class assignment, project, or other school related topics while you sit back at your desk doing paperwork or
grading.
For those of you eager to bring this to your classroom, check out this
lesson (downloadable PDF) that my high school Personal Finance students used to teach our entire third
grade about what money is, and why they should save it.
Striking Out Stress: A «Gallery Walk» Activity This
lesson actively involves students in
grades 6 - 12 in a discussion
about the causes and effects of stress, and helps them find ways to cope with it.
Grades 6 - 8, 9 - 12 Submitted by Dr. Pelham Mead] In this multi-media
lesson, students create a Web site
about ecosystems.
This
lesson for students in
grades 6 - 8 has the kids write and illustrate a book
about reefs for younger children.
Included: Links to on - line
lesson plans for teaching
about Columbus across the
grades!
As happens every year for Butts, a 3rd
grade teacher at Blaney Elementary School in a suburb of the South Carolina state capital, a flurry of thoughts
about lesson plans and bulletin boards quickly supplanted the usual summer lull.
Understanding A-Level Photography / Fine Art Marking and Assessment for AFL: This presentation (and accompanying jpegs) contain resources for helping A-Level students understand Marking and Assessment at A-Level (AFL)- I use these resources in my teaching of AS and A-Level students and help students: - Learn
about marking - Mark / Peer Assess their work - Try to understand how the numbers correspond to their
grade / mark It has been really useful in my
lessons for ensuring understanding of marking and AFL - and has made what can be a painful part of the
lesson - really worthwhile and useful.
My Hero — A Class Mural 06/09/2000 [Ed Technology, History, Mathematics
Grades 6 - 8, 9 - 12 Submitted by Linda Scudder] Students gain a deeper understanding of the concept of heroism, create a biographical
lesson about their chosen hero, and work collaboratively to make a mural.
Recently, she taught kids in a fifth -
grade science class
about emulsion and polarity, secretly couched within a
lesson on how to make salad dressing.
TeachHUB offers a bounty of video writing prompts and accompanying
lesson ideas by
grade band for recent movie trailers, videos
about current events and holidays, and even popular ads.
EconEdLink
Lesson: Delivering the Goods —
Lesson for
grades K - 2
about providers of goods and services; includes interactive activity
The
lesson plans allow students in
grades K - 6 to become numismatists — coin collectors, in everyday terms — and learn some interesting facts and stories
about each state.
The â $ Links for Kidsâ $ section offers children's activities, Creature Features
about the coyote and river otter, coloring pages to print, and
lesson plans for
grades K - 12.
After
lessons on the basics of filmmaking and a discussion on societal issues, a team of sixth -
grade girls produced a film
about Ali Razza, a man who lives in a small jugghi, or tent house, next to the school.
This is a series of
lessons intended to teach
grades 3 - 6 students
about the metric system of measurement.
Creating an Original Opera This
lesson for
grades 4 - 6 provides a structure for having students create an original opera in
about ten days.
The researchers developed a hands - on curriculum and professional development
lessons teaching basic physics using the popular toys, then conducted a randomized controlled trial in
about 60 fourth -
grade classrooms in a California school district comparing student learning under the project - based and traditional textbook based instruction over three weeks.
First, people have learned so much
about what to do and what not to do to implement the kind of middle
grades school reforms talked
about in the original Turning Points that we felt compelled to bring those
lessons to broad public attention.
(
Grades K - 5) eane Heese, who teaches at Springfield (Nebraska) Elementary School, submitted this
lesson in which students fill treasure chests with positive, self - esteem - building comments
about each other.
As Pasi Sahlberg said recently (Education Review, March 2018), the
lesson from Finland is that «we should care less
about age and
grade level standards».
For example, I wrote in a previous blog
about a teacher that teaches every fifth -
grade math
lesson by first presenting students with a challenge problem to see what they can do, then based on results from that task, breaks the students into three groups - remedial, progressing and advanced.
They gathered there most nights to «vent
about the day's ridiculousness,» joke around, or watch humorous YouTube clips — anything to «break up the monotony» of
lesson planning and
grading student work, said Patrick Manning.
This
lesson is targeted toward students in the 3rd or 4th
grades learning
about Arrays, Multiplication and the Distributive Property.
She cleverly applied that rule to paper
grading and rediscovered one of the
lessons that industry has learned
about quality control.
What we like
about this
lesson Mathematically: Highlights multiple ways for students to work towards key
grade - level fluency expect...
Eric Murphy, a seventh
grade humanities teacher at Excel Public Charter School in Kent, takes his students through a
lesson about Syrian refugees and the issues surrounding whether or not they should be able to emigrate to this country, in January.
All students read and communicate
about grade - level texts, with suggestions for support included at key moments in
lessons.
Megan Golding A 9th
grade math teacher in Georgia writes
about relating to students, math
lesson ideas, and creative ways to engage students.
In acting on more than 1,900 appeals on Oct. 7, the first day of its new term, the court rejected a request from a Kentucky school district to uphold its right to fire a 5th
grade teacher for giving
lessons about industrial hemp.
If educators are empowered to incorporate
lessons about the positive impact of reflecting on their learning and using specific strategies to improve academic performance from the early
grades on, students will be better equipped with the skills they will need to thrive in school, in their personal lives and in the working world.
Alan Singer, Social Studies guy at Hofstra University, created a
lesson plan for
grades 7 - 12
about the