How do you get your student’s attention? We used to call this the anticipatory set, the hook or now the popular term is the engagement piece. Consider showing this video to introduce a unit on Sharecropping and Cotton Production in Texas: Set the stage by asking students to describe the images and the faces. How [...]
Creating avatars in education can help get the creative juices flowing and create safe images to post of the students online. Here is a list of ideas for using avatars in classrooms: Create book trailers with the avatars representing the characters Teachers can put their avatar in their powerpoints to get the kids attention. Create [...]
What did I learn today? I think I will let the word cloud speak for me. This was created with wordle from my google docs notes taken during my workshop today with Tammy Worcester. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.robinstechtips.com%2F%3Fp%3D475′; addthis_title = ‘TCEA+%26%238211%3B+What+I+learned+today’; addthis_pub = ”;
Want to make a difference in your classroom? Let your students know how they are doing! The most powerful single modification that enhances achievement is feedback. [Hattie, 1992] According to Robert Marzano’s Classroom Instruction that Works -providing feedback to students can be the single most important change you make in your classroom. Research shows that: Feedback [...]
The Winter Olympics are 10 days away. Soon the TV airwaves will be full ofwinter sports, some of which we only get to see every 4 years. So how can you incorporate this historic event into your classroom? I’ve gone through several websites (listed at the bottom of this post) and grouped some ideas into [...]
I’ve found a few more resources/lessons that use the Super Bowl or football as the jumping point for the lessons and wanted to pass them on: Education World - http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson096.shtml – lessons for art, social studies, math and science based on football and the SuperBowl Lesson Planet – http://www.lessonplanet.com/search?media=lesson&keywords=football&commit=Search&grade=All+Grades&rating=3&gclid=CIGYpP73tZ8CFQUhDQodKC2r4Q - Football lesson plans Football Math [...]
Here is the presentation I used recently to introduce Skype to teachers on campus: I am looking forward to what they decide to do with this great FREE tool. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.robinstechtips.com%2F%3Fp%3D417′; addthis_title = ‘Skype+in+Education’; addthis_pub = ”;
I ran across this and thought I would share. Using Wordle to create posters and original pieces had never occurred to me! She also links to other sites and ideas at the end of the presentation as well as includes how she created some of the slides. It is worth checking out! Wordle Ideas View more [...]