Monthly Archives: October 2017

Passion Projects: Ways I Can Make a Positive Difference In our Classroom

This week all you will be doing is brainstorming different ideas and questions. Each night your focus will be a little bit different.

Brainstorming slides to work on week of 10/2/17:

  •  10/2/17 and 10/3/17
    • Before you begin thinking about ways YOU can make a positive change in our classroom community, you need to identify what some of the problems are. Think about both academic and social/behavioral issues. You may want to take notes on a post it throughout the day tomorrow to add to your ideas on this slide.
      • For example: I notice that every time we sit down to do math…., We always seem to have a hard time…, Why do we pay so much more attention during read aloud than…, 
  • 10/4/17
    • What are some questions you need to figure out before solving any of these problems?
      • For example: What is causing the problem? Why is a certain child (no names) acting that way? Why is it that transitions are so hard for our class?
  • 10/5/17
    • Keep in mind that YOU cannot change someone else’s behavior, only yours. So – what changes can you make?
      • For example: When the class is struggling to focus I can…, When we are writing down HW I can tell it is hard for a lot or kids to… so maybe I can…, We are not always working our hardest in class. I can…………to make our work time more efficient

Reading Partnership Padlets

Please find you partnership and click on it to be directed to your Padlet where you will put all jots from now on. You will also be able to comment on your partners jots as well as build off of each others ideas. The Example will show you different ways to jot based on the lessons that we do in class.

Example Padlet

Manu and Daniel

Gavin, P.J. and Sam

Sabrina and Alina

Max G and Meera

Connor and Max F

Spencer and Vanessa

Nick and Jett

Sophia and Stella

Phoebe and Rebecca