Currently listening to The Only Plane in the Sky and it is simultaneously fascinating and heartbreaking. The pacing is great and I am eager to keep listening and learning. Looking for any other well paced non fiction books on really any historical events.
My district has the website classroomscreen blocked under our general blocking filters so I can’t access it anymore. Is there any other site similar to it that has all the helpful widgets and things?
I teach a core subject in 8th grade that is state tested. This year I am trying to go super low tech, breaking out the textbooks and getting the kids off screen as much as I can. However, that comes with the challenge of how to collect data adequately as a way of both appeasing my admin and gauging student understanding. The past few years I’ve been very high tech because that’s how I was taught. How was data best collected before everything became so tech heavy? If you’re a low/no tech teacher how do you collect data? How do I manually collect data for 25+ kids in a class period effectively? I know the only way my admin is going to go for me getting the kids off the computer is if I have data available to show progress so this isn’t something I can just decide not to do. Any and all advice or ideas are appreciated!!
I am going into my 4th year and I am sick to death of the 1/1 devices. They aren’t entirely avoidable as I teach a tested subject but I am looking for ways to use them less this upcoming year. Every year we get 1/1 textbooks that have traditional chapter readings, but they also have worksheets in the book for the students to complete. The entire book is standard aligned and it has practice EOC questions in it so I think it could be a really good resources. I have only ever taught in the 1/1 device era, and I work in a title one school where many of our kids are behind/below grade level. I had 8th grade students that genuinely could not read last year. My question is: does anyone still teach primarily out of textbooks? How can I accommodate my lower students when using this method? With kids below grade level and general behaviors of kids these days, I know “read chapter 1 and complete XYZ” isn’t going to work like it did when I was in school. Any and all advice is much appreciated!
Never seen a raven (we don’t have them in my area of the US) so I’m of course anxious to try and see one. Can someone confirm if it is a raven or if not, what it is? Thank you!
Seen in Central Florida in a marshy area. The way it’s standing and something about its face doesn’t scream rabbit to me but I’m not finding anything else it could be with those ears.