Recently, we had a staff meeting where the principal was “encouraging” the staff to use more higher-level, more engaging lessons with the students. She especially was concerned about the use of wordsearches in the classroom. Evidently she had found a wordsearch left in the copier. I use wordsearches. But wait! I don’t use them like […]
Hello All, Today I was part of a meeting called an IEP (Get used to being in a lot of meetings. I’m not a big fan of most meetings, but it’s part of the job.), and I noticed that there were a lot of abbreviations being thrown around. I thought it would be a little […]
Hello again, Thanks for stopping by. Today, I had an interesting situation occur. Today I collected projects from one of my groups, and what I do is call each student using my grade book, and I ask to see their project. I want to see that they did it, so I don’t find out they […]
Hello everyone, Today was group work day. We did something that I call Tic Tac KNOW. I divide the students into groups, and they create a poster using the Tic Tac Toe grid, displaying graphically images of what they have learned during the week. It’s a test prep activity. Now there are a few cool […]