Teachers can get to know students with a concentrated strategy to increase belongingness in their class.
This short video explains the strategy beautifully!
These amazing infographics about explicit instruction can take your students' learning to the next level. These leverage the transfer of responsiblity in a meaningful and explicit manner.
Infographics include:
*Structure of an Explicit Lesson
*Delivering Instruction
*Independent Practice
*Active Participation
Thank you, Jamie Clark!
his article by Lee Wantanabe-Crockett examines a series of tips and tricks for fostering classroom discussions.
Movement game kits (hot potato, charades, etc.) for many of the Comox Valley Schools (SD71, B.C.) middle-grade Core French units (also searchable on the Resource Bank). All would be adaptable for younger and older students. There are also flash card sets with the units themselves!
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Ces jeux sont destinés aux élèves de Core French, mais seraient également très utiles pour susciter la participation à l'oral dans les cours d'Immersion! Des cartes flash sont aussi disponibles avec chaque unité (recherchables dans la Banque de Ressource).
UNIT THEMES (those with flash cards and games, searchable on the Resource Bank):
-Greetings & letters (saluer & alphabet)
-Numbers & calendar (chiffres & calendrier)
-Who are you? (Qui es-tu?)
-Body parts & monsters (le corps & les monstres)
-Clothing (les vêtements)
-Sports (les sports)
-Hobbies (les passe-temps)
-Animals (les animaux)
-High-frequency words (Les mots de haute fréquence)
-Food (la nourriture) - unit 2/2e unité
You will find everything you need here to use STEM challenges to introduce and teach your students 21st Century Skills.
Before each activity look at the "What Skills Do I Need?" attachment and discuss what needs to be done. Then show them the specific challenge - plan and do it! After have the kids complete the related reflection. All files below.
Before every challenge - What Skills Do I Need?
Challenge 1 & Self-Management Reflection
Challenge 2 & Effective Participation Reflection (also includes self-management)
Challenge 3 & Creativity Reflection (includes both skills above as well)
Challenge 4 & Enquiry Reflection (includes other 3 skills above as well)
Challenge 5 & Reflection Reflection (includes other 4 skills above)
Challenge 6 & Team Work Reflection (includes all other skills)
21st Century Skills reflection includes all skills
All documents are word files (except one) so you can edit them - if you have a problem with fonts etc, let me know and I can send you the pdf versions. Melissa.Lander@sunwestsd.ca
Kevin Allocca is YouTube's trends manager, and he has deep thoughts about silly web video. In this talk from TEDYouth, he shares the 4 reasons a video goes viral. A quiz, thought provoking question, and links for further study are provided to create a lesson around the 7-minute video. Educators may use the platform to easily "Flip" or create their own lesson for use with their students of any age or level.