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Getting Out of Their Way: How Do You Get to Know Your Students Before School Starts?

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Getting Out of Their Way. Creating the Student Centered Classroom. Wednesday, August 3, 2011. How Do You Get to Know Your Students Before School Starts? What is the number one common characteristic of great teachers? They know their students. Good teachers spend time at the beginning of the year learning as much as they can about their students in order to develop positive relationships and create an inclusive environment. So Sam, can you believe the home run that the Red Sox made during the last game?

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Getting Out of Their Way: October 2011

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Getting Out of Their Way. Creating the Student Centered Classroom. Sunday, October 23, 2011. Using Technology with Caution. This year, as I integrate technology into my curriculum, I am asking myself these questions. How rigorous is the activity? I am going to use Karen Hess' Cognitive Rigor Matrix. Are the learning outcomes serving a standard? I will begin with the standards. I will ask myself, how will the use of technology help students master those standards? Posted by Rebecca Pilver. I believe that ...

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Getting Out of Their Way: I Stopped Policing My Class as They Walk Down the Hallway

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Getting Out of Their Way. Creating the Student Centered Classroom. Tuesday, January 17, 2012. I Stopped Policing My Class as They Walk Down the Hallway. Their solution was to play the "1,2,3 Quiet Game" and as soon as I said those words, they'd be quiet. If they made it the entire way, they could get a marble in a jar. We tried that. But, it really didn't work. I still had to monitor, manage, and police their behavior. She is in charge. One, two, three, quiet game! Posted by Rebecca Pilver. Preparing Stu...

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Getting Out of Their Way: Descriptive Dragons

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Getting Out of Their Way. Creating the Student Centered Classroom. Saturday, March 12, 2011. I love organic teaching. Its path grows from student interests and classroom happenings. It is free of packaged activities, isolated skill worksheets and sequenced programs. Instead, it listens to and follows rhythms of natural, connected, purposeful learning. My class is currently reading, discussing and loving the book Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. This book not only draws the reader in with its beautiful ...

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Getting Out of Their Way: December 2011

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Getting Out of Their Way. Creating the Student Centered Classroom. Thursday, December 29, 2011. As a Dinah Zike advanced trainer, I do my best to keep up with Dinah-Might Adventures'. Growing product line. Yesterday I was thrilled to receive a package from the Dinah Zike Academy. Enclosed were six titles of their new Notebooking Central. Books, with a letter asking me (and all other advanced trainers) to create at least one model notebook based on a selected Notebooking Central title. Links to this post.

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Getting Out of Their Way: Can Student Made Videos Help Store Information into Long-Term Memory?

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Getting Out of Their Way. Creating the Student Centered Classroom. Saturday, December 17, 2011. Can Student Made Videos Help Store Information into Long-Term Memory? Last year I starting making movies with my class. My students created movies about idioms, social skills, rocks, and the water cycle. I posted those on the class wiki. They loved to watch those movies over and over again. They viewed those movies so much they had the lines memorized. Not just their lines, everyone's lines! Thus, my experiment.

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Getting Out of Their Way: October 2014

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Getting Out of Their Way. Creating the Student Centered Classroom. Friday, October 24, 2014. Building Vocabulary: Flustered, upset, livid, ENRAGED! Emily Kissner's blog entry, Teaching About Character Traits,. Not only because it does not have emotions, but it groups synonyms for traits together. Using Emily's Character Trait and Emotions. Making Inferences resource, I was ready to teach the first lesson. Sorry for the interruption," he says, sitting down on the stool a the front of our classroom. Bloody...

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Getting Out of Their Way: Stop Correcting All of Those Papers!

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Getting Out of Their Way. Creating the Student Centered Classroom. Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Stop Correcting All of Those Papers! I hate correcting papers. It is one of those mundane tasks that I procrastinate doing until I have a huge pile of papers, causing me to feel overwhelmed and stressed. I've been working on ways to reduce the amount of correcting in order to eliminate this stress-er from my life. When I sit home correcting papers, what is it really doing for kids? I often do this during math&...

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Getting Out of Their Way: What Does a Green Screen Video Production Teach?

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Getting Out of Their Way. Creating the Student Centered Classroom. Wednesday, March 9, 2011. What Does a Green Screen Video Production Teach? The video taping itself involved a tremendous amount of teamwork. Students worked together to practice their parts, set up the props and stage, direct the scenes, do makeup and costume fix ups, and video tape. Once the video was taped, I did the final editing, cutting and piecing the clips together, putting in the photos, and adding music clips. Get in the Fold!