Mr Hammerlund

Who inspired you to do creative work (a friend, a mentor, or a teacher)?  This question is a hard one for me, probably too hard.  I wanted to talk about a past teacher. I can think of a few teachers who were influential: Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 10 Grade 11 Several in college This list gives me for an idea to make a post of the most memorable lessons from my own schooling.  The teachers' areas of specialization are also interesting because they weigh heavily in social studies and in college, I chose international relations, a course of the social studies group of subjects, as my major. How did that shape your approach to teaching? I don't remember much about schooling before high school - my mind was always focused on things outside the classroom, but I do remember a shift from junior high to high school and college. Assignments moved from more project-based learning to essay/writing assignments, then to lectures and essa...

cross posted to tekiota.com The traditional center rotation involves students moving from one area to another, and at each stop, they learn something new. When I used centers in elementary school, I needed students to be able to pronounce words properly, but I couldn’t always be right there to correct or help them. I started using QR Codes to give students access to an audio recording of words they were to pronounce. Another one was when reading in groups, point a QR Code to a URL of a recording of the book they were reading so they could listen before starting to read. That would be one way to give students access to other information they could consume on their own. Another way is to create a Google Drawing (or Slide you can embed in a blog) that has icons of the media type you are linking to (via Eric Curts ). Have text you want students to read? Put an icon of a Document in your Drawing and add a link to the icon that leads to the Doc. Have a movie you want studen...