Helping Teachers Inspire Learners
I am very happy to be part of a great linky and blog hop that celebrates great ideas in teaching. There are over 140 educators that are taking part in this fabulous event. I hope that you find some great ideas that you can start tomorrow! I wanted to revisit and share some ideas that I have used in…
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It’s interesting to watch this project get wings and take flight. Students are working at their own pace on getting all of the preliminary work done for their Passion Projects. Thanks for joining me this week. During our last session of Passion Projects, we worked on our cover pages for our folders, our questionnaires and choosing our topics. Coloring our…
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I was so excited to kick off our Passion Project hour last Friday! It started with a little light show and dancing. Yes, you read that right! My students have been learning about the brain and mindfulness in order to help them to learn better and to self regulate. I have explained to them that two nerve cells in the…
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Thanks for reading my last post in the series of Writing Sundays. I hope these posts have given you some good ideas about writing. I enjoy debriefing about my trials and tribulations as I teach writing. If you’ve been reading lately, you’ll know we have been doing a lot of research on penguins. I have been using my Just Chillin’ and…
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It was our second time wondering and thinking about things this week. On Friday we will have our first Passion Project hour. It will just be a celebration of who we are and a sharing of ideas. Topics can often be difficult to come up with; especially for second graders! So far, it has been an interesting experience for all…
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Personalized Learning, Genius Hour, Passion Projects, 21st Century Learning, Inquiry Learning, Differentiated Learning… these are all terms to describe types of learning that are designed to engage the student based on their needs. I have tried my own style of personalized learning and I differentiate learning all the time for students as I know most of you do. I always…
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