Well, tomorrow is the twenty-four hours when the Oklahoma State Department of Education finally announces the 2018 OK Teacher of the Year. I'll live honest. I'm nervous. Mostly most the spoken language I accept to give - non whether I win or not. I decided months agone that this entire procedure is inward God's hands. He has a beautiful as well as perfect conception for my life. Part of that conception has involved getting to live a finalist for Teacher of the Year which has come upward alongside some pretty prissy perks. As a kickoff twelvemonth teacher, I laid a long-term finish that I would i twenty-four hours live Oklahoma Teacher of the Year. So, yes, I'd live honored to win. But, I volition also nation that the thought of leaving my classroom for a twelvemonth to tour the acre has me worried. For every bit long every bit I tin dismiss remember, I accept wanted to live a teacher. Now that I'm inward my 6th twelvemonth inward the classroom, I can't imagine myself doing anything else.
Tomorrow volition accept i of ii outcomes. I volition either hear my cite announced every bit Oklahoma's Teacher of the Year, or I volition hear mortal else's cite announced. Either way, I'm going to take in myself a winner. To win as well as accept a direct a opportunity to inspire teachers across the acre during the 2018-2019 schoolhouse twelvemonth volition live an honor. To acquire a direct a opportunity to instruct algebra to students for the 2018-2019 schoolhouse twelvemonth as well as croak on doing what I dear volition live an honor. No thing the outcome, I can't lose!
Now, to acquire my hear off this spoken language I take away to give tomorrow, I introduce to y'all this week's Mon Must Reads!
Here are this week's inspiring tweets!
Tony Donaldson shares a photograph of what a mole of dissimilar chemicals looks like. Last year, my physical scientific discipline students actually struggled to roll their minds closed to the mole concept. This year, I'm pedagogy chemistry, then it is fifty-fifty to a greater extent than crucial that my students empathize this tricky concept. I promise that letting them visually run into a mole of something volition help!
Hayley created a mini maths substitution fob toolkit for the teachers at her school. I'd dear to exercise this thought for exercise structures. Then, I could only flip through the cards when I'm looking for an thought when lesson planning! Hayley has posted the file to download on TES for costless
here.
I'm ever on the scout for novel ideas for foldables.
Mr. Fredericks shares a new-to-me foldable type inward this post. Love the emphasis on definitions AND what each vocab discussion looks like!
Mrs. Mongelli's tweet caught my oculus non because of what she was tweeting most but because of the posters inward the background! I desire to emphasize the importance of prefixes/suffixes/root words alongside my chemical scientific discipline students. I may only accept to set upward some to a greater extent than posters to help! :)
Randy L. Revels, Jr. shares a creative thought to acquire kids thinking inward class. Using the top of your desk every bit a dry out erase board, write every bit many things every bit y'all tin dismiss intend of most a sure enough topic. This thought won't piece of work alongside the textured tables inward my room, but I'm saving it hither to maintain it inward hear for the future!
Are y'all doing
#Teach180 or a 180 blog?
Ben Wildeboer has created a calendar that lets y'all easily figure out the break of the twenty-four hours of schoolhouse that corresponds to each date. My favorite thing is how customizable it is!
Rick Barlow of late tweeted most an intriguing means to acquire students to purchase into grouping work. He invited students to give populace shout-outs to other students who took risks inward work solving. How awesome is that?!?
Jake Valtierra is an assistant main who shares ideas from classroom teachers. I dear the thought of "Pin the Tail on the Number Diagram!"
Katie Shonk combines 3 awesome things (SMARTBoards, Venn Diagrams, as well as Post-It Notes) to brand something fifty-fifty to a greater extent than awesome!
Tenille Cauley shares a new-to-me activity to give students exercise working together inward a group. The challenge: write a message without touching the marker!
Mrs. Schneider had her students do beautiful pinwheels alongside facts most themselves on the other side. This would brand beautiful classroom decor!
Megan Tuttle poses an awesome puzzle to her students. It's similar a clothesline activity without the clothesline. What does thousand equal? What social club should the cards become in?
Gina Stukenholtz has her students consummate an enthusiasm as well as learning nautical chart to acquire feedback from her students. LOVE this idea!
Madi Roberts shares an awesome dry out erase template she created. I also intend this would brand for an awesome foldable for interactive notebooks!
Elissa Miller inspires alongside an awesome geometry lesson that involves piping cleaners as well as fuzzy pom poms! I also dear the menu variety for Algebra 1!
Ashley Brown shares a new-to-me thought for information collection: lucky numbers from fortune cookies! I dear combining nutrient alongside information collection inward the classroom!
Beverly Schroth brings chemical scientific discipline to life past times having students deed out what happens to the accuse as well as volume of an atom when electrons or neutrons are added or subtracted.
Daniel Carlson flora a quick means to acquire useful pupil feedback. I dear the query most Desmos! And, for the record, I intend it's impossible to exercise Desmos also much!
Megan Joy combined i of my favorite exercise structures, ii truths as well as a lie, alongside technology scientific discipline inward an awesome way!
Stephanie Goldberg uses a uncomplicated business office supply, a plastic canvas protector, to do a genius demonstration of the associative property.
here. She has also shared a version of the same activity that doesn't involve whatever cutting as well as gluing. I've already printed it as well as set it inward my unit of measurement binder for relations as well as functions!
I don't instruct biology, but I accept to give a shout-out to
Jen Winne for her creative exercise of puddle noodles inward pedagogy science!
Julie Morgan shares a poster she created for her classroom to recognize i pupil each calendar week based on their Numeracy Ninjas performance. LOVE this idea. I also dear that the sign is laminated then it tin dismiss live easily reused each week!
Sarah Dimaria's students are performing a yummy stats experiment: are double stuffed oreos actually double stuffed?
Michelle Bailey created an awesome transcend as well as crease activity to acquire her students practicing the concept of complementary angles inward geometry.
Kaytlin Black engages her students inward reviewing the scientific method past times analyzing pollex wars. How fun!
Michelle Vanhala shocks her chemical scientific discipline students past times eating a candle. I've wanted to attempt this activity alongside students ever since I read most it lastly year. Thanks Michelle for the reminder. I'm definitely doing this alongside my chemical scientific discipline degree soon!
Joel Bezaire wins the coolest instructor honour for pedagogy his students how to construct an enigma machine from a soda can!
Math past times the Mountain has been producing some awesome menses charts lately! Check out this i for classifying existent numbers.
Mr. Cooke shares an awesome wall display featuring a Pythagorean Tree!
Until adjacent week, maintain upward the awesome tweets as well as spider web log posts!
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