Weekly Schedule
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
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I'm actually tedious at catching onto things sometimes. Okay, a lot of times. I tin hear a slice of advice or read it inwards a mass a 1 one m thousand times, but a lot of times I conduct hold to exercise only the contrary as well as larn the difficult way.
Consistency is key. Students crave structures as well as routines. Yes, I heard this throughout college. Most books on classroom management as well as setting upwardly your classroom give this advice. Yet, it's something I'm nevertheless inwards the physical care for of learning.
As I reverberate on my 2nd twelvemonth of teaching, 1 of the best changes I made this twelvemonth was to laid a weekly schedule. Wait. Set isn't the correct word. That would imply that I planned this out from the beginning. I didn't. Remember, I similar to larn things the difficult way. I ended upwardly developing this weekly schedule over the course of report of this past times year, as well as I can't imagine going dorsum now.
Mondays - Good Things
Wednesdays - Weird as well as Wacky Wednesdays
Fridays - Fri Funnies
Let's start alongside where this all started. Good Things Mondays. I've blogged well-nigh this before, but here's the gist. Every shape starts out alongside bellwork. After going over the bellwork, nosotros pass a duad of minutes on something fun as well as totally non-math related if it is Monday/Wednesday/Friday.
On Mondays, students conduct hold the chance to part something expert that has happened inwards their lives lately. I beloved this routine for several reasons. It gets about kids talking who are unremarkably rattling tranquillity as well as shy inwards class. Students acquire a gamble to part a slice of their lives alongside the shape that I unremarkably wouldn't acquire a gamble to live on a purpose of. A expert affair tin live on something huge similar getting their driver's license or something small-scale similar getting a gamble to slumber inwards over the weekend. Students beloved to utter well-nigh the movies they saw, the fish they caught, or the places they went.
I attempt to maintain it positive. I actually do. But, my students beloved to part bad things, too. This year, I allow them part basically anything that was schoolhouse appropriate. But, I recall I'm going to acquire inwards where I exclusively allow expert things on Mondays. Somehow, someway, I desire to give students the gamble to earn the chance to utter well-nigh Bad Things. I'm thinking well-nigh about sort of betoken construction where classes earn points for attendance, no tardies, 100% completion charge per unit of measurement on homework, etc. Then, these points tin live on exchanged for Bad Things, Brain Breaks, Set, Witzzle, etc. Any ideas on this would live on greatly appreciated!
Depending on how many students desire to speak, Good Things usually takes 3-4 minutes. I conduct hold had to larn to laid a boundary on how many things students may share. I also ever attempt to brand a betoken to part a expert affair of my own. Students desire to know to a greater extent than well-nigh me exterior of the classroom, as well as this is an chance to part about of my passions alongside them. Monday is usually a twenty-four hr flow that students (and sometimes teachers) dread. Good Things makes it better. I can't nation yous how many times I would hear 1 of my students proclaim, "It's Monday. That agency it's fourth dimension for Good Things!" They would non allow me forget well-nigh Good Things. If nosotros didn't conduct hold schoolhouse on Monday, they would insist on having Good Things on the firstly twenty-four hr flow nosotros came dorsum from the break.
I started Good Things inwards September afterward experiencing it at a professional person evolution workshop that my district provided. The firstly duad of times that I did it alongside students, it felt kinda awkward. I recall students only aren't used to beingness asked to participating inwards this type of sharing inwards the classroom. But, they speedily warmed to the idea. As far every bit I know, I'm the exclusively instructor inwards my edifice using this strategy. One affair I conduct hold worked on as well as demand to locomote along to function on is making certain that the other students are politely listening as well as non talking piece a pupil is sharing his or her expert thing. My students acquire as well as then excited well-nigh talking well-nigh their expert things that they can't stop. Their seatmates start asking them questions, as well as pretty shortly one-half the room is talking. Maybe I could create this into the betoken structure. If students start talking during Good Things when it is non their turn, the entire shape loses a point???
Due to the overwhelming popularity of Good Things Mondays, my students started requesting that nosotros conduct hold other fun things on other days of the week. In October, Lisa Henry posted well-nigh doing Fri Funnies alongside her students. Every Friday, she shares a math-themed comic strip alongside her students. I loved this idea, as well as I sentiment my students would, too. I started the twelvemonth off alongside math comic strips, but it speedily morphed into funny things inwards general. Knock Knock Jokes. Silly Jokes. Comics. Funny pictures off pinterest. These were exclusively sometimes math related.
On about Fridays, I would give students a gamble to nation their ain (school appropriate!) jokes. One pupil was convinced that Fri Funnies were only similar Good Things Mondays. So, he would heighten his mitt every Fri to part something funny that had happened to him that week. I never stopped him; it was ever interesting to come across what he deemed funny.
My students beloved to bash my jokes. I recall they express joy to a greater extent than at their attempts to brand fun of my jokes than my actual jokes. As bad every bit my jokes are, my students would riot if nosotros didn't conduct hold Fri Funnies. When I asked my Algebra 1 students to write letters of advice to time to come students, several students mentioned my jokes:
Consistency is key. Students crave structures as well as routines. Yes, I heard this throughout college. Most books on classroom management as well as setting upwardly your classroom give this advice. Yet, it's something I'm nevertheless inwards the physical care for of learning.
As I reverberate on my 2nd twelvemonth of teaching, 1 of the best changes I made this twelvemonth was to laid a weekly schedule. Wait. Set isn't the correct word. That would imply that I planned this out from the beginning. I didn't. Remember, I similar to larn things the difficult way. I ended upwardly developing this weekly schedule over the course of report of this past times year, as well as I can't imagine going dorsum now.
Mondays - Good Things
Wednesdays - Weird as well as Wacky Wednesdays
Fridays - Fri Funnies
Good Things
Let's start alongside where this all started. Good Things Mondays. I've blogged well-nigh this before, but here's the gist. Every shape starts out alongside bellwork. After going over the bellwork, nosotros pass a duad of minutes on something fun as well as totally non-math related if it is Monday/Wednesday/Friday.
On Mondays, students conduct hold the chance to part something expert that has happened inwards their lives lately. I beloved this routine for several reasons. It gets about kids talking who are unremarkably rattling tranquillity as well as shy inwards class. Students acquire a gamble to part a slice of their lives alongside the shape that I unremarkably wouldn't acquire a gamble to live on a purpose of. A expert affair tin live on something huge similar getting their driver's license or something small-scale similar getting a gamble to slumber inwards over the weekend. Students beloved to utter well-nigh the movies they saw, the fish they caught, or the places they went.
I attempt to maintain it positive. I actually do. But, my students beloved to part bad things, too. This year, I allow them part basically anything that was schoolhouse appropriate. But, I recall I'm going to acquire inwards where I exclusively allow expert things on Mondays. Somehow, someway, I desire to give students the gamble to earn the chance to utter well-nigh Bad Things. I'm thinking well-nigh about sort of betoken construction where classes earn points for attendance, no tardies, 100% completion charge per unit of measurement on homework, etc. Then, these points tin live on exchanged for Bad Things, Brain Breaks, Set, Witzzle, etc. Any ideas on this would live on greatly appreciated!
Depending on how many students desire to speak, Good Things usually takes 3-4 minutes. I conduct hold had to larn to laid a boundary on how many things students may share. I also ever attempt to brand a betoken to part a expert affair of my own. Students desire to know to a greater extent than well-nigh me exterior of the classroom, as well as this is an chance to part about of my passions alongside them. Monday is usually a twenty-four hr flow that students (and sometimes teachers) dread. Good Things makes it better. I can't nation yous how many times I would hear 1 of my students proclaim, "It's Monday. That agency it's fourth dimension for Good Things!" They would non allow me forget well-nigh Good Things. If nosotros didn't conduct hold schoolhouse on Monday, they would insist on having Good Things on the firstly twenty-four hr flow nosotros came dorsum from the break.
I started Good Things inwards September afterward experiencing it at a professional person evolution workshop that my district provided. The firstly duad of times that I did it alongside students, it felt kinda awkward. I recall students only aren't used to beingness asked to participating inwards this type of sharing inwards the classroom. But, they speedily warmed to the idea. As far every bit I know, I'm the exclusively instructor inwards my edifice using this strategy. One affair I conduct hold worked on as well as demand to locomote along to function on is making certain that the other students are politely listening as well as non talking piece a pupil is sharing his or her expert thing. My students acquire as well as then excited well-nigh talking well-nigh their expert things that they can't stop. Their seatmates start asking them questions, as well as pretty shortly one-half the room is talking. Maybe I could create this into the betoken structure. If students start talking during Good Things when it is non their turn, the entire shape loses a point???
Friday Funnies
Due to the overwhelming popularity of Good Things Mondays, my students started requesting that nosotros conduct hold other fun things on other days of the week. In October, Lisa Henry posted well-nigh doing Fri Funnies alongside her students. Every Friday, she shares a math-themed comic strip alongside her students. I loved this idea, as well as I sentiment my students would, too. I started the twelvemonth off alongside math comic strips, but it speedily morphed into funny things inwards general. Knock Knock Jokes. Silly Jokes. Comics. Funny pictures off pinterest. These were exclusively sometimes math related.
On about Fridays, I would give students a gamble to nation their ain (school appropriate!) jokes. One pupil was convinced that Fri Funnies were only similar Good Things Mondays. So, he would heighten his mitt every Fri to part something funny that had happened to him that week. I never stopped him; it was ever interesting to come across what he deemed funny.
My students beloved to bash my jokes. I recall they express joy to a greater extent than at their attempts to brand fun of my jokes than my actual jokes. As bad every bit my jokes are, my students would riot if nosotros didn't conduct hold Fri Funnies. When I asked my Algebra 1 students to write letters of advice to time to come students, several students mentioned my jokes:
- Laugh at Ms. Hagan's jokes to brand her experience better.
- Miss Hagan is a actually expert instructor as well as I recall yous volition similar her class. Another affair yous may similar is her jokes fifty-fifty though they aren't actually funny.
- If yous desire Ms. Hagan to experience expert as well as conduct hold a expert day, nation her to nation jokes. Then, express joy fifty-fifty though they aren't funny.
- Also, her jokes. Some are funny as well as about you're only similar "Miss Hagan!" And, that's what makes yous laugh.
- Hey, she ever tells jokes as well as then brand certain yous laugh. :)
Fri Funnies creates memories. And, fifty-fifty if they are laughing at my expense, I'm glad to come across smiles on the faces of my students. I learn inwards a largely poor, rural school, as well as many of my students conduct hold seen as well as experienced things that I can't fifty-fifty imagine. They are as well as then young, yet their life stories are already filled alongside abandonment, rape, abuse, incarceration of 1 or both parents, neglect, as well as more. It's a dissimilar earth than the 1 I grew upwardly in. Friday Funnies is a small-scale affair I tin give my students, but I believe that small-scale things add together up.
Weird & Wacky Wednesdays
The concluding as well as most poorly executed improver to our weekly schedule was Weird as well as Wacky Wednesdays. Do yous ever hear an interesting floor on the radio or take in an interesting link as well as desire to part it alongside your students? This was my endeavour at doing only that.
Here are about of the things nosotros explored on Weird as well as Wacky Wednesdays:
What Day of the Week Were You Born On?
What Day of the Week Were You Born On?
Hand Painting Art - Seriously AMAZING! I wasn't super impressed when my sis sent me this link until I started scrolling. My students LOVED looking at these!
Food Art (Are yous sensing a theme?)
Childhood Pictures of Myself Exploring Various Careers
(Scanned as well as captioned past times my mother!)
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| Heavy Equipment Operator |
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| Librarian |
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| Motor Cross Rider |
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| Movie Star |
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| Secretary |
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| Young Julia Child |
My students craved the consistency that this weekly schedule provided. If it was Monday, they wanted as well as expected to exercise Good Things. On Wednesday, they expected me to conduct hold something weird/interesting to part alongside them. And, on Fridays, they demanded jokes. Next year, I conception on revamping my weekly schedule.
My electrical current brainstorm: (Subject to Change)
Mon - Good Things + Mental Math Monday
Tuesday - Trivia Tuesday
Wed - Witzzle Wednesday
Th - "Tease Your Brain" Th (Brainteasers)
Fri - Fri Funnies
Next year, my aim is to conduct hold procedures as well as structures for EVERYTHING. I recall it volition aid immensely alongside my classroom management.
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