Here are my weekly Diigo posts for the week of July 21, 2014. August is right around the corner. I am sure that all of you are busy preparing for the return of your students.
Make this week ridiculously awesome.
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Smart Homework: Can We Get Real? | MiddleWeb
Here is a thought provoking article on homework
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4 Tips for Flipped Learning | Edutopia
Interested n trying the flipped classroom? Here are some GREAT tips.
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The DIY World of Maker Tools and Their Uses | Edutopia
Tools for the maker space
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5 Ways Being A Good Follower Makes You A Better…
5 Ways Being A Good Follower Makes You A Better Leader http://t.co/2jlXZsvBOR #satchat
— Nancy J. Herr (@APInsight) July 26, 2014
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Twitter / mariagalanis: Love this! In different ways, …
Love this! In different ways, we are all leaders. #satchat #leadership #engage109 pic.twitter.com/MJhyP429ey
— Maria Arfanakis (@mariagalanis) July 26, 2014
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Twitter / Trihatchling11: This is good mental food. …
10 Things You Must Give Up To Move Forward as a teacher. pic.twitter.com/9SN2PO98oy #edchat #edtech #pedagoofriday #satchat #sunchat
— Teacher (@Primary_Ed) July 25, 2014
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Why (And How) Teachers Are Using Twitter – Edudemic
Twitter can be a so beneficial for all teachers
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3 Free Ways to Bring the News Into Your Classroom — THE Journal
Some really good (and free) ways to integrate technology and current events
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How to handle feedback you don’t like | via @impactfulcoach SmartBlogs
How to handle unwanted feedback
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When the growing gets tough | SmartBlogs SmartBlogs
Personal growth, even if painful, is critical to a leader
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How can I get honest feedback from my team? | SmartBlogs SmartBlogs
Some great advice for getting honest feedback from your staff
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What I’ve learned from coaching runners | LinkedIn
Advice on how to be a great coach to your staff and community
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Fewer Policies – More Conversations | Leadership Freak
Thoughts on creating policy and when NOT to
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Edutech for Teachers » Blog Archive » 10 Ways to Integrate Mobile Phones in Class
I love these to supplement the Chromebooks, especially #5
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Why Schools Must Move Beyond One-to-One Computing | November Learning
A dead on right take on 1 to world, not 1:1 computing
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Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: 10 Ways Social Media Can Improve Writing in Your Classroom
Some excellent ideas on using social media to improve writing skills
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How to Ensure Total Group Participation in the Classroom | ASCD Inservice
Do ALL your students really participate in any one activity?
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Review- Science Notebooks: Writing about Inquiry (2nd Ed) | MiddleWeb
Interesting thoughts for our science team.
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3 Ways to Use ThingLink for Video in the Classroom | Getting Smart
This is a great tool that you can easily use with the Chromebooks.
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Pathfinder Career Articles – How to Create Your School Dream Team: How to Hire the Best Educators
Some great ideas on hiring great people
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Five Tips for Getting Started With Differentiation in a Secondary Classroom | ASCD Inservice
Some ways to improve differentiation in your classroom
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Some great ways to increase student motivation
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Encourage students to take risks
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In lieu of general praise, praise specific actions. Saying things like, “You worked really hard today” or “Your topic sentence communicates the main idea of your paragraph very nicely” can, as Ferlazzo suggests, “make students feel that they are more in control of their success, and that their doing well is less dependent on their ‘natural intelligence.’”
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Build Relationships
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Ferlazzo suggests that we take a step back and consider how we think about and speak to our students
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Use Cooperative Learning
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lectures do very little to develop our students’ intrinsic motivation.
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While Ferlazzo is not suggesting that we ditch lectures altogether, he would encourage us to keep them to a minimum. Instead of delivering lectures, find ways to incorporate cooperative learning into lessons. These can be as basic as “think-pair-share” or as ambitious as problem and project-based learning.
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Set Specific Expectations
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How to Recruit and Prepare Middle School Volunteers | MiddleWeb
Some ideas on how to get volunteers into your school
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Countdown to Your First Year: Rounding Up Supplies
Some ideas for getting free supplies for your classroom
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Top 12 Summer Tips for Top Teachers | Edutopia
Some iras on preparing for the upcoming year.
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Ten Minute Vocabulary Lesson | MiddleWeb
Making vocabulary interesting and fun…yes fun…
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Teaching Poetry, Whole-Novels Style: Creating An Immersion Experience For Students | CTQ
For our English peeps. Make poetry amazing.
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