Teaching and Learning Resources / Instructional Approaches

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3 Ways of Getting Student Feedback to Improve Your Teaching

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During the summer, you’ll want to improve your teaching and lessons, but how do you decide where to start? Your students! I use these three ways to get feedback from my students on my lessons, activi

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6 Mistakes You Might Be Making with Technology Integration – Getting Smart by Dave Guymon – blendedchat, edapps, EdTech, students

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In an era where ignorance can mean legally-binding repercussions, understanding how to effectively use 21st century tools in the classroom is tantamount to effective classroom management or content area best practices.
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Basketball Bonkers

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Basketball Bonkers
 

State Standard: 1, 2, & 3
Equipment:   Ball per student (rubber play ground ball work great) music, tokens, Frisbee, music Grade: K-2
Purpose of Event:  Shooting balls into a hoop, running, cardiovascular, counting, adding
Time: 10-15 minutes
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Give each student a ball, I use rubber play ground balls, they bounce easily and are softer than real basketballs.  When the music plays, have students shoot hoops (I have 6 hoops for about 20 students).  If they make a basket, they come to me and take a token out of my “treasure chest” and put it in an upside-down Frisbee.  After 1-2 minutes, I stop the music and have the students gather around me to help count the tokens.

Variations: count by 2, 3, 5 etc.  I also sometimes have one student pick out an bonus token, what ever color it is, that color token is worth more points then the other colored tokens.  For St. Patrick’s Day I use green tokens and a black “pot-of-gold” to put the tokens in.

I have to watch to treasure chest other wise students take out more than on token at a time.
Concerns:  Move safely in general space.  Careful using too hard of a ball, students could get hit in the head with other balls while getting their own, that is why I use playground balls.
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10 authors who are brilliant at Twitter

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A Strategy for Discovering and Describing Student Accomplishments

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How to Develop a Solid Blog Outreach Strategy

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