Help People See What They Don't See

Today on my walk I listened to a few podcasts. The last two I listened to were connected to each other and to coaching. 

The first podcast I listened to was Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud: Personalized Professional Learning: Teacher Voice and Choice in Coaching.

In this episode, he showed an example coaching where he asked the following questions:

• Can you describe the teaching situation?
• How much will you need to modify to do what you want to do?
• What is the specific activity you will do?
• What is the most important thing the kids will do?
• What is the most important outcome of the lesson? What is the most important thing you will need the kids to do?
• What will the kids do in the lesson that will help them reach the outcome?
• What are the most important things for you as the teacher to do to help them reach the outcome?
• What would you like me to give you feedback on?

The second one was The Psychology Podcast with Scott Barry Kaufman: Lori Gottlieb and Guy Winch || Dear Therapists.

In this podcast, Lori Kaufman talked about how she is not teaching the people she works with because they know more than her. What she says she does is help people see what they don't see. 

Photo by Marten Newhall on Unsplash

help people see what they don't see

So often I feel intimidated when working with other teachers because I do not know their content. But that is not as important as helping them pinpoint areas they want to work on.

A plan for the school to integrate BML, or EAL, teaching in all subjects

Last year I took the course, BILINGUAL & MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS FROM THE INSIDE-OUT. 

A plan for the school to integrate BML, or EAL, teaching in all subjects

How I Would Structure Home Learning If I Were A Parent

The past few weeks have had me feeling like I have been living in a movie. This situation doesn't seem real.

Last week I was talking with a friend in the United States who told me his kids would be learning from home after the schools close.

I have been virtual teaching for the past three weeks, but have had to try to stay as close to my program as I could. However, if my kids came home without a program, I might do something like this. I would start with the choice of the child.

Have your child start with a driving question. Then record [for them] other questions that come up. Or, if that looks like it will get in the way, encourage them to follow the questions they have.

Below are some links and sites that might be useful.

This post is unfinished but I am going through and just trying to publish past posts.


STEAM PROJECTS

I think STEAM [Science Technology Engineering Arts Math] projects are the heart of learning because they are interdisciplinary and mirror the real world. If I

EXPLORATORIUM
https://www.exploratorium.edu/

SCRATCH
https://scratch.mit.edu/

BYRDSEED TV
https://byrdseed.tv/students/index.php?kids=true

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREE-STEM-At-Home-Learning-Menus-5333225




PBL WORKS

https://www.pblworks.org/blog/beyond-worksheet-packet-pbl-projects-adapt-remote-learning


PE

GO NOODLE
https://www.gonoodle.com/good-energy-at-home-kids-games-and-videos/



SCHOLASTIC

https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html



READING

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/education/resource-library

newsela.com



Local Library

Library Extension
https://www.libraryextension.com/


WRITING

Writing would be taken from what is happening around.

journaling
opinion writing
informational writing
story writing


MATH

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mkFhrrzlyLJeXKkD_L9g--RNI9hWUra_UEFmdd3dvwQ/preview#




FIELD TRIPS

https://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/museums-galleries/museums-with-virtual-tours


https://nepris.com/industry/talks


OTHERS

DUOLINGO


FENDER PLAY

Take a Screenshot!

One of the first things I taught my class to do this year was to install extensions. I wanted them to be able to quickly access Google Docs and G Suite. I also wanted them to be able to screenshot their work so they could post it to Seesaw - their learning journal.

I came to realize that taking screenshots has a more important function; to record inappropriate behavior.

I follow the Vicki Davis approach to finding inappropriate things on the internet and teach students to: 

1. Take a Screenshot
2. Block
3. Tell an Adult

Suggestions for Seesaw

Written in the Spring of 2020

Seesaw is great, but after using Seesaw for these three weeks for online learning, I have a few suggestions:

1) I love the links to the assignments. But they only work after assignments are posted. Could the link to the scheduled post go to the "posted" assignment?

2) It would really help if we could format announcements.

3) It would also help to be able to schedule announcements.

4) I like the skills. I would also like to see a rubric tool in here.

5) Could we have the option to change the way to calendar looks? I usually think of weeks starting with Sunday.

6) Could it be possible for activities to "gray out" for those students who finish them?

7) It would be awesome if some sort of report (checklist) could be generated for the daily assignments.