Teaching and Learning Really ARE Connected!

WOW! It's been a long time since I posted last, sorry! Here's a great picture that shows just how closely connect teaching and learning are!

(Thanks to my mom for sending me this encouraging picture!)

I hope to get some more new and exciting posts to you soon!

Good vs. Good Enough

This is an interesting outlook to have on your students and their work....

I found this on Flickr. The website credit is below:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shareski/7019211317/

Happy Thanksgiving!

A word of wisdom and encouragement!

 

 

May you all be thankful for the little minds you get to shape.

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving surrounded with family and friends.

And, of course, a well deserved mini-break from your busy and lucky jobs!

Teachers Are Heroes Infographic

The graphic below is full of statistics of teachers today. It is extremely eye opening and will make you look at the education field and teachers in a new light.


Brought to you by USC Rossier Online Master's in Teaching
http://mat.usc.edu/teacher-appreciation-day-2012/

Welcome Back!

It's the beginning of a new school year! 

This is a great time to begin incorporating some new things into your classroom (like technology!!) I hope you will continue to read this blog and use some of my ideas in your classroom this year! Enjoy!

Photo Credit:http://savingsangel.com/blog/2012/07/30/how-to-get-huge-back-to-school-savings/

Future of Technology

While this video is a few years old, it makes you think hard about the effects of technology on our world today. It is amazing to think that when this video was created in 2007, the "future" is what we now consider the present. This means that with the advancements in technology since then, the data in this video shows less of an effect from technology than there is today. Enjoy the video!

Need a little encouragement today?

This video is a great reminder of our purpose as teachers and our reasons for choosing this difficult profession. It is a very inspirational and motivational video. Enjoy...

Creative Bulletin Boards

I am a Sunday School teacher at a nearby church and one of my jobs is to update a bulletin board every once in a while. Bulletin boards are a great way to give information or showcase students' to both students and parents. In a classroom, especially with math, it may be hard to find ways to utilize a bulletin board to display students' work. One idea is to have them create math related crafts such as color by number pictures. However, you need to make them fun and creative to catch people's attention, otherwise no one will ever notice them. Here is a photo of the one I did today. This board was not in a math classroom, but you can get the idea of the design from this.



Using tin foil as the background makes the bulletin board noticeable and attractive to the eye. Since I had two little girls help me with the bulletin board, I put their names on it. That's a good way to reward students and make them feel special. This board is for the product safety commission recalls and a place to display students crafts as they create them. Obviously, the parents will look to see their students; work and also notice the recalls in case any of them apply to things they own.

Thinking of creative and unusual ways to design bulletin boards is the easiest way to make them fun an noticeable to parents and students.