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Lessons that Worked!
Lessons and ideas that work in the classroom.
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Whats happening in our school.....
USING QUIZIZZ
OCT 22
Thank you to EMMA Doorly for telling me about Kahoot....this is similar! The difference being, students don't work as a class, they work individually with their own device.
I love this app because you can look through pre-made questions rather than reinvent the wheel! ALSO, you can print an excel spreadsheet; Spreadsheet has a list of student names, and which questions they got wrong.
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How Stu Gray Uses Google Docs
Another very important tool I've used this year is creating a shared Google Drive folder for students and parents to access all of our class documents throughout the year. Here is our MAT106 Student Files shared Google Drive folder: goo.gl/7wF2zk . Drive makes it very easy to share files as you can just drag and drop or copy and paste files on the Google Drive website or even just on the computer desktop itself and it makes these files instantly available to students/parents/teachers to view/download/print the files.
The Weebly website makes it very easy to link our shared folder on the website using for example a large, visible button ("MAT106 Student Files" on my website) that acts as a link to the folder. The folder can also be added directly to students' own Google Drive accounts so they can easily access it from their own mobile devices.
How Stu Gray Uses REMIND
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The website really becomes powerful and useful on a daily basis, by embedding messages to students and parents using REMIND. For those not familiar with REMIND, from their site:
Remind is a free, safe, and simple messaging tool that helps teachers share important updates and reminders with students & parents. Subscribe by text, email or using the Remind app. All personal information is kept private. Teachers will never see your phone number, nor will you see theirs.
Weebly allows you to embed source code directly onto any page of the site. REMIND provides a source code to use on different websites. This allows me to have any REMIND messages I send, updated in real-time on any page of my website. So on my math page, students and parents can see math messages. On my advisory page, students can see advisory messages. This is very helpful as it means I only ever need to send out a communication from one source (the REMIND application on my computer or phone, or through the REMIND website) and it gets delivered directly to my students' and parents' devices/inboxes, but it also gets posted onto the website for students or parents who aren't subscribed to our REMIND feed.
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How Stu Gray Uses his website
This has been my first line of communication and sharing with students and parents. Having a website that is easily accessible and navigable across all devices has been very important to my teaching. It serves as a starting point for all students, parents, even resource teachers, when they need to know what is going on in our math class and access our resources.
I experimented with many different website hosts/platforms and found Weebly to be my favourite. I believe it is the most user-friendly/intuitive to use when creating a new site, provides all the needed functionality in a free platform, and makes it easy to update or reconfigure the site. Once my template was set, I have only had to make minor adjustments/updates to it through the year. All messages and content are updated through other messages which I will get to later.
I have also used sites like analytics.google.com to get a picture of the usage of my website throughout the year. Once again a free platform, it can give you a broad overview or a detailed picture of the traffic on your website. For example, since the beginning of the 2015-2016 school year, my site has had almost 4,500 page views.
Look at how Kate uses the "PIT"
March 9th 2016
Kate hands the power to her students when they are stuck in the PIT, giving ample ways for students to move forward!
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Using the Language of Learning
Ms. Elst is one of our experts in our school when it comes to having students "Speak the language of learning". Talk to her about how she uses this wall in her class.
Thinking Skills with Ms Chaiton...
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Video to come soon....
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Living Wax Museum
2014-2015
LIVING WAX MUSEUM
From the infamous to the famous, students research and present biographies on historical figures through time.
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Flipped Classrooms
Asking students to preview work before looking at it during class time.
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Speed Meetings
A quick activity to use as an icebreaker or as a starting activity to assess background knowledge for any unit.
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Making History Come to life
2014
Turning our classroom into the Lascaux Caves!
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Work Stations
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Getting students up out of their seats for learning!