tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41558256251182909822024-03-14T06:59:05.954-04:00Created for Learningblog by Created for Learning ... Teacher/Author from the Teachers Pay Teachers CommunityJonathan Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06948573981422234209noreply@blogger.comBlogger179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4155825625118290982.post-13340366231642648742020-03-31T10:34:00.003-04:002020-03-31T10:57:54.927-04:00How to Have Students Type on a Pdf<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The question is: <b>How do we do that?</b><br />
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In this tech landscape, you've got a number of options.<br />
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1. You can <b>screenshot each of the pdf pages as jpg files</b> and make them backgrounds in Google Slides or PowerPoints. Then your learners can type or draw on top of them. This is a lot of leg work on your end ... <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/THE-OUTSIDERS-Journal-Quickwrite-Writing-Prompts-Digital-Distance-Learning-2949760" target="_blank">like we did for you in our OUTSIDERS Quickwrites activity.</a><br />
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2. You can <b>type all the questions into a Google Forms</b>. This allows easy grading but also involves a lot of front end leg work on your end ... <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/ESPERANZA-RISING-Figurative-Language-Analyzer-Digital-Distance-Learning-4752699" target="_blank">like we did for you in our Esperanza Rising Figurative Language activity.</a><br />
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Teacher Taran says, <i>"Most worksheet/question style things are easily translated to Forms. Using Forms will then let you easily collect all student responses, put them all in a spreadsheet for you to review, and you can even upload an answer key to automatically grade responses (only recommended for MC, checkbox, drop down, etc.). Plus, it’s meant to integrate with Classroom."</i><br />
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3. You can <b>use a software app like <a href="https://www.kamiapp.com/" target="_blank">Kami</a></b>. Kami allows you to upload a .pdf for your students to interact with. It connects with your Google Drive, so you'll need to give it permissions to access your Google account (don't worry, it's secure). Your learners can type on top of the pdf. They can draw, changing colors as they wish. And it allows you to split a .pdf up and only use what pages you want. Then you can combine those separate pages into your own new .pdf just for your learners. Here's a <a href="https://youtu.be/1CU5xJO6zf4" target="_blank">link to a YouTube tutorial</a>.<br />
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4. You can use other apps like:<br />
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<li><b><a href="https://goformative.com/" target="_blank">GoFormative</a></b>. Julie says, <i>"You can pop a pdf in as an assignment and students can type or draw on it and you can see all students work in real time." </i></li>
<li>Or <b><a href="https://dochub.com/" target="_blank">DocHub</a></b>. <i>"My students can use an extension called DocHub and type onto a pdf that I post in Google Classroom."</i> - Teacher Sydney ... <i>"Have students add the DocHub extension. They can open in dochub, type or draw on it, and submit it in classroom back to you or share to you directly from Dochub."</i> - Teacher Becky ... <i>"DocHub allows students to type on documents."</i> - Teacher Jennifer </li>
<li>Or <b><a href="https://www.gingerlabs.com/" target="_blank">Notability</a></b>. <i>"My favorite paid app for marking up PDFs is hands down Notability."</i> - Teacher Jodi</li>
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Jonathan and Lisa (Created for Learning)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16506945586813115794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4155825625118290982.post-84694201677939848572017-07-03T16:51:00.001-04:002017-07-03T16:51:21.770-04:00Travel w Kids - Packing version (Episode 70) Today, we’re gonna talk about<b> travel with kids</b> and how to <b>pack</b> so your backs aren’t dying and you have more fun.<br />
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<li>Getting on and off transportation.</li>
<li>Going up and down stairs</li>
<li>Watching people with rolly suitcases on cobblestone is quite funny</li>
<li>Walking across grass, dirt, puddles, or anything not paved</li>
<li>You get stronger</li>
<li>Your luggage doesn’t keep hitting your heals</li>
<li>Tall people don’t have to wreck their backs bending over for the wee little rolly suitcase handle</li>
<li>You don’t have to worry about always keeping a hand on your luggage to prevent theft or the suitcase falling and whacking people</li>
<li>If your children bring little rolly suitcases, you can then roll or carry theirs when they get exhausted. </li>
<li>Hurrying between flights, trains, or subways is so much quicker going up and down stairs/escalators and easier weaving between crowds.</li>
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So we tend to use backpacks when traveling and as we started procreating, people were telling us we wouldn’t be able to travel the same way. We sort of took it as a challenge and tried to figure out how to travel with kids. We recently took an international trip with our three kids, yes, we were out-numbered. They range in age from 3 to 8-years-old.<br />
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So I had a backpack and daypack. Jonathan did also. Our oldest had a rolling backpack and daypack. Our middle daughter had a carry-on rolling suitcase and a daypack. Our youngest’s stuff was stored in the extra space of all our bags.<br />
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So the dress rehearsal was very helpful for us. We recommend going for a walk with everything on before heading to the airport so the kids experience what it will be like.<br />
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That has happened to me before. It was gross but I just needed to clean my backpack. If anyone has a more environmentally friendly waterproof, air suction idea, we’d love to hear it.<br />
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Jonathan Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06948573981422234209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4155825625118290982.post-63621387981411904322017-05-18T13:10:00.000-04:002017-07-03T16:22:33.309-04:00International Travel w Kids - Communication version (Episode 69) Today, we’re gonna talk about <b>international travel with kids</b> and how to <b>stay connected</b> with people back home.<br />
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<b> </b> If you’re the kind of family who wants to go on vacation overseas to completely disconnect from people while you’re gone, then this conversation might not be for you. Just share it with a friend. But if you’ve got grandparents back home who would love to talk with the kiddos about the fun they’re having while it’s fresh on their minds, then let’s talk about how we tried.<br />
The Internet. As much as it seems like you can get it everywhere these days, it can still be tough sometimes. Places you’d like to have Internet connection:<br />
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<li>The place you’re <b>sleeping</b>: hotel, apartment, condo, AirBnB, hostel</li>
<li>On <b>transportation</b>: plane, train, subway, bus, boat</li>
<li>While <b>eating</b>: restaurant, coffee shop, pub</li>
<li>While <b>planning</b>: cafes, government buildings, tourist spots</li>
<li><b>Out </b>in the country, <b>around </b>the city</li>
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These are the places you’re going to want to use the Internet connection to possibly <b>chat on video</b> with family. The <b>hotel </b>is usually the most solid wifi signal, so you’ll need to plan for the time difference back home and see when you need to be at the hotel.<br />
For phone calls, you have a bunch of options.<br />
When you’re on <b>wifi</b>, you can call FREE via <b>WhatsApp</b>, but those people have to also be on WhatsApp … if you’re both on it, though, it’s awesome.<br />
You can call via <b>Skype </b>if you pay to put money on your account.<br />
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<a href="http://international%20travel%20w%20kids%20-%20communication%20version%20%28episode%2069%29/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt=" http://createdforlearning.blogspot.com/2017/05/international-travel-w-kids.html" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuKXb8JAdLO8CrjkrwbBKixq71WOiG0CSuhB7RA1yJpEsiwQZCrpvfEEX13utLQu0qnVlRXuS5s-XEdaiV2NrNYU7SpK1ATZUSNtRcgUMrhtjxWd5Dpp-s61F-STnbwPbrYTMZA147ukQr/s320/004+Vending.jpg" width="320" /></a> You can purchase an <b>international phone and SIM card</b>. We bought ours from a vending machine, seriously. Phone and SIM card. It took some figuring out and asking a local how to do it, but we got it working. This is great for calling local locations in the area you are traveling. Ours also came with 700 international minutes, which we could use from anywhere when we weren’t on wifi. Having the local phone number was helpful to have for a few situations when people needed to call us back. And the beauty of now having the international phone is that I think we can use it anywhere else in the world as long as we buy a SIM card in that country.<br />
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So to recap, you need the proper voltage range and the right region adapter.<br />
And they look like this … I got this complete set on Amazon, and the work great for all regions of the world. They even plug into each other if you ever need just the right combo. We also got this pretty slick power strip we’re excited to try next time (since I blew up our last one). It has the right voltage for worldwide, multiple plugs and USB charging ports.<br />
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Jonathan Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06948573981422234209noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4155825625118290982.post-59601365295432696462017-04-24T03:35:00.002-04:002017-07-03T16:22:48.649-04:00International Travel w Kids - Safety version (Episode 68) Today, we’re gonna talk about <b>international travel with kids</b> and strategies to calm fears about <b>safety</b>.<br />
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<b> </b> We recently went on an international trip with all three of our girls. We were outnumbered. We really value travel: experiencing different cultures and seeing how big the world is compared to just the space and culture that we live in. We have it in our budget so we contribute a little each month to our fund so we are able.<br />
We started to notice that even though we had saved up $, we were apprehensive to be outnumbered in a different country but we sucked it up and went for it. Many people said we were brave and weren’t willing to try it. We are so glad we did.<br />
We thought we’d share some of the different things we learned while traveling overseas with children. We wouldn’t say we are experts on this. We’re just sharing what we think we’ve learned so far, so we would love to hear tips and tricks that you can share for when we venture out again.<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">So today’s topic, <b>keeping things safe while traveling</b>.</span><br />
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I remember watching a movie about people on vacation and there was a tsunami that separated them. It got me thinking that if I couldn’t talk and my ID wasn’t near me, how would people know who I am? <b>I bought this durable <span style="font-size: large;">personalized bracelet</span> from <a href="http://makemethis.com/">makemethis.com</a></b> and I wear it always, even when I’m not traveling. I had one when I was a kid and this is close to the same kind. I got one for each of my kids too. I’m often asked if they are medical ID bracelets and when I say, “No, they are to prevent Jane Doedom,” that seems weird to people. Jane Doe is the name often used for an unidentified woman. Anyway our bracelets say our name, date of birth, emergency contact number, and mine says “USA Citizen.” It’s 4 lines of personalized info.<br />
During our trip we realized that phone numbers on the girls’ bracelets were our U.S. cell numbers that can’t reach us while we are overseas, unless you get a special plan with international connection (which, please teach us if you know an affordable way with your provider). Because of this we just used <b>an ink pen to <span style="font-size: large;">write our international phone number on each girl’s arm</span></b>. It wears off, so you’ll need to refresh it every couple days.<br />
<b>Boy are we glad we remembered <span style="font-size: large;">our first aid kit</span></b> … even if we did forget to check the expiration dates on things. That was a rude awakening ripping open a disinfectant wipe to clean a scraped knee and finding that it was completely dried out. A shin-scrape on an escalator, 4-5 double-knee scrapes, fingers slammed in a door, a cut eyelid from a fall out of bed, and some bug bites. So one of our first trips to the pharmacy was to buy more disinfectant wipes, antibiotic cream, and bandages, so it worked awesome. Compact and portable and oh-so-necessary.<br />
And then … what’d we do with our wallets and money? We have <b><a href="http://a.co/2T5OEd3" target="_blank">these handy <span style="font-size: large;">money belts</span></a></b> that go under our shirts. We carry passports, money, credit/ATM cards, and everything in them. We keep our passports in ZipLoc bags because, if you’re like us, you’ll get a tad bit sweaty and don’t want to ruin your travel docs. We put each of <b>our <span style="font-size: large;">credit/ATM cards in one of these security sleeves</span></b> so no one can walk by us with a card reader and steal our info. And the last bit we do … and this is humorous and most likely overkill … is we carry a fake wallet, so if someone asks for our money, we can take that out, throw it a ways away, and hightail it out of there while they go after the wallet. And inside it are a bunch of fake credit cards, some old money from other countries that isn’t worth trying to convert into dollars, and a little note that says it’s not nice to steal. Ha!<br />
Then there’s being <b>safe with your information while using <span style="font-size: large;">wifi networks</span></b> around the city you’re traveling in. You might want to check bank amounts or credit card limits, and you want to do it as safely as possible. The safest places are likely at the public government buildings like The National Gallery and maybe any big chain hotel. But if you’re trying to log in at local restaurants or pubs,<br />
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<li>be wary of phishing networks that have it open for you to log in then will steal your info, </li>
<li>ask the establishment what their wifi is, then </li>
<li>probably only do internet searches and things that don’t require passwords.</li>
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These are the big things we considered and planned for. We’d love to hear what you know.<br />
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Jonathan Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06948573981422234209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4155825625118290982.post-57342534671694065372017-03-26T18:11:00.000-04:002017-08-26T15:53:33.048-04:00When Teachers SHOULD NOT Grade Student Grammar in Essays (Episode 67) Today, we’re having a conversation about all those <b>grammar errors in student essays</b> and how to <b>save hours of time and our sanity while grading</b> them.<br />
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<b> </b> It’s soooooooo difficult. We know the feeling. We’ve got the stack of essays in front of us and an enormous mug of coffee (or some other beverage of sanity). And we’re grading, grading, grading … not at home, of course, because we drew that permanent line in the sand back in Episode 3.<br />
And this feeling overcomes us … we can’t even help ourselves … there is a huge disturbance in the force and it’s the grammar errors in this essay. And this one. And this one. Okay, almost all of them.<br />
And we feel like we need to fix them all. And we have good reasons that we think we need to fix them:<br />
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<li>The learners need to know how to use correct grammar in life or they’ll get mocked on TV or social media or won’t get hired.</li>
<li>Some learners have even told us they actually want to know the errors they made.</li>
<li>If we leave a grammar error uncorrected, it means we think it’s okay for them to use incorrect grammar.</li>
<li>If we leave a grammar error uncorrected, another teacher or parent or admin might see it and think we’re incompetent.</li>
<li>We need to prove to our students (and parents!) the reason they earned the grade they did, and if we don’t mark up a whole bunch, they’ll think they deserve a higher grade.</li>
<li>They won’t know what to fix if we don’t tell them.</li>
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And these reasons and any others in your mind might all be true, to some extent. But they can all be overcome, and none of them are reasons to grade grammar in every essay you grade.<br />
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So <b>let’s talk about when we SHOULD grade the grammar and when we SHOULDN’T</b>.<br />
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To do that, we need to separate the steps of the process and actually see each step as separate. Ideating is not outlining is not drafting is not editing is not publishing. And <b>there’s only one step in the process that we the teachers should care about their grammar (maybe)</b>.<br />
Because <b>worrying about grammar KILLS THE IDEA PROCESS</b> for many people. Ideating and editing MUST BE KEPT DIFFERENT. <b>All those marks on their paper just tells them that their ideas suck</b> and kills the creative energy. It kills their desire to play, to explore, to idea adventure. It makes them afraid to get their ideas down on paper because their ideas might be wrong … even though we know wrong grammar doesn’t mean wrong ideas, they don’t feel that when they see all the marks.<br />
And that’s because the ideas and the grammar ARE DIFFERENT parts of the process. All the first stages of the process are about helping them get their ideas onto paper and into better and better flow, better logic, better persuasion … all that. And if we have them thinking about their spelling and commas and all that crap, then we kill them.<br />
But wait, wait, even back in 2nd grade my learners were being tested on their grammar. On the test they have to do all the stages in one sitting and they only have one shot.<br />
You’re exactly right. That is the one stage of the process when the grammar absolutely matters and needs to be correct … when they publish. And testing is one of those times. The publishing stage is last. And we have to scaffold them to that level. That’s one of the bummers of testing is that very few places in real life do we have such a rushed and pressurized writing process. It doesn’t equip them for a real life scenario, but it does equip them for the real life process. <br />
So what you’re saying is in all the time when you’re training them through how to ideate, outline, and draft, you’re not worrying about grammar and spelling. They can still get it right when they can, but we’re not going to WORRY about it in those stages because those stages are about the ideas.<br />
Yes, then once we’ve got the thing written and our ideas revised, then we can polish things up and make them pretty. That’s when we take the thing to publish. But that’s also where the in-house state testing process messes things up and stops modeling real life.<br />
Okay, so let’s go deeper on the idea of polishing. When we were talking the other day in the car, you went pretty deep on that process.<br />
Yeah, it’s a process I’m passionate about because I’ve learned it the hard way while writing and editing my four unpublished novels. We often combine the revising and editing stages into one stage, and they need to be kept separate whenever possible. And I think it’s focusing on and fixing the spelling and grammar that combines the stages. I call that polishing things up. Polishing is when we’re making things pretty so we can publish.<br />
But the revising stage isn’t there yet. Is that what you’re saying?<br />
Revising is just that a re-vision. We have to be able to look at the ideas and the structure and flow and validity and persuasiveness of the ideas in order to see what to keep, what to tweak, what the sledgehammer, and what to trash completely.<br />
And that’s where spelling and grammar makes it hard to edit. <b>When we focus on fixing all those little grammar parts in the revising stage, we’re polishing our sentences up and it makes it really hard to then tweak, sledgehammer, or trash them.</b><br />
Because we’ve made them all pretty. And I could see how it could make you frustrated too because all that grammar and spelling editing would end up a waste of time if you later deleted the sentences, paragraphs, or complete pages.<br />
Exactly. It feels like a waste of time. But even worse, I think, is that it distracts your idea flow with a completely different mental process … editing. <b>Ideating and editing are completely different. Right brain vs. left brain.</b> It’s hard enough to use our brains, so let’s keep ourselves in one hemisphere.<br />
I love that … because we’re teaching them how to think … literally … How they can maximize their thinking energies and flow into one side of the brain at a time.<br />
Yes. I think it’s vitally important.<br />
Then after they’ve finished the whole process and are getting ready to publish, that’s when you could focus on all the grammar or maybe just focus on the most recent grammar you taught: “On this essay, you’ll be graded on your comma usage with compound sentences. Make sure you use 10 commas with coordinating conjunctions … or something like that.”<br />
I like the sound of the process. Feels super clear.<br />
<b>Conversation of the Day</b>: What grammar or spelling error do you <b>compulsively </b>feel you have to correct?<br />
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Jonathan Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06948573981422234209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4155825625118290982.post-19544326412754363702017-03-23T17:57:00.000-04:002017-08-26T15:53:42.933-04:00Faith and Beliefs in the Classroom: Students’ Rights Edition (Episode 66) Today, we’re gonna start sailing out into some tricky waters with a video series of conversations about <b>Beliefs in the classroom</b>. Today’s focus: <b>What are students allowed to do? </b><br />
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<b> </b> Everyone has their own kind of belief system about the world. This includes religion, faith, politics, philosophy, ecology, etc. And there are a lot of feelings out there around this topic … Faith and Beliefs in the public school classroom.<br />
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<li>Maybe we’re <b>confused </b>about the laws and aren’t sure where to start.</li>
<li>Maybe we <b>want to dive in</b>, but we’re afraid of doing it wrong and losing our jobs. </li>
<li>Maybe we’re <b>angry </b>at teachers who try. </li>
<li>Maybe we’ve kind of <b>ignored the rules</b> because we feel like we should be able to talk about anything we want. </li>
<li>Maybe we just want to make sure all students have the <b>right to be represented </b>and want to know how.</li>
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<b> </b> We thought it’d be good to start with what the law says and get that cleared up. Parents, students, teachers, and admin all have their own rights and regulations around this but they all echo the same basic principles. Whichever of these groups you’re from (Parents … what can your child do? Students … what can you do? Or Teachers … what can your students do?), we just want to add more clarity for you around what is allowed and what isn’t.<br />
<b> </b> We’ve tried to make sure we’re accurately outlining these, but please make sure you also look these up too. We’re in this with you and are always learning ourselves.<br />
<b> </b> So for today, let’s zoom in on students’ rights regarding faith at school.<br />
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<b> </b> The <b>1st Amendment of the Constitution</b> has the first solid word on this:<br />
<b> </b> “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”<br />
<b> </b> This means that schools can’t make anyone practice a certain religion but also can’t prohibit the free exercise of it. Schools also cannot abridge the free speech of students.<br />
<b> </b> But if students were allowed to do or say ANYTHING related to religion, then school could get a little crazy. Which brings us to the 2nd general rule:<br />
<b> </b> <b>If a school allows any student or group to exercise a right, it must allow all students or groups to exercise that right.</b><br />
<b> </b> The last general guideline is that <b>schools can infringe on a right if it is seriously preventing school from functioning</b> smoothly and they must infringe on them all the same.<br />
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<b> </b> So let’s dive into some details.<br />
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<li>Students can wear religious clothing and jewelry as long as it doesn’t “interfere with the operation of the school” or isn’t lewd or obscene.</li>
<li>Students can pray on their own or in self-gathered groups as long as they don’t disrupt school activities.</li>
<li>Students can talk about their faith in their schoolwork, projects, artwork, as long as it accomplishes the assignment in quality ways.</li>
<li>Students can invite friends to their faith-based events as long as they are respectful of other students’ space and don’t disrupt school activities. </li>
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<b> </b> This is where the 1st Amendment is joined up with <b>the Equal Access Act</b>. It says that:<br />
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<b> </b> “(a) public secondary schools that receive federal funds (b) “[cannot] deny equal access or a fair opportunity to, or discriminate against” (c) “any students who wish to conduct a meeting” (d) within that “limited open forum” (e) “on the basis of the religious, political, philosophical, or other content of the speech at such meetings.”</blockquote>
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<li>Students can distribute printed religious material as long as they don’t significantly disrupt school activities.</li>
<li>Students can post flyers or announcements in public spaces where anyone else is allowed to post non-religious content.</li>
<li>Students can start any kind of club they want to and invite any outside speakers they want. </li>
<li>Students can mention their faith and religious scriptures in special speeches or ceremonies like awards or graduation.</li>
<li>Students can mention their faith and ask faith questions during classroom discussions and while studying novels and stories, history, science, or anything they see their faith as relevant to the learning community and isn’t disruptive.</li>
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<b> </b> Phewee! That was a lot. But we wanted to make sure we brought up a bunch of the different situations to help us better understand the nuances.<br />
<b> </b> So ... <span style="font-size: large;"><b>POP QUIZ TIME</b></span>?<br />
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<b>QUESTION: </b>Who can have a club at school?<br />
<b>ANSWER: </b>Anyone. That means Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, atheist … anything. That also means Communist, Democratic, Republican, KKK, environmental, LGBTQ, or anything else similar.<br />
<b> </b> As well as, of course, chess, cheer, The Walking Dead and disaster prep, robotics, etc.<br />
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<b>QUESTION: </b>What if the students can’t find a teacher who will supervise their group when they meet?<br />
<b>ANSWER: </b>Then they can’t meet. Each group has to have a staff chaperon who will supervise the meeting for safety. We’ll get into how much they can get involved in the meeting during our Teachers’ Rights video. But if students can’t find a teacher, they can’t meet.<br />
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<b> </b> So that means that’s the one tricky, fudgy, gray area about whether students get to exercise this right. Because the school can’t make a teacher host a meeting during their non-teaching time. So if the KKK club can’t find a teacher willing to host their group, they can’t meet. And it seems the teachers can have plausible deniability about why they can’t volunteer to supervise a group.<br />
<b> </b> Yeah, I remember at my public middle school, there was a group of students who came and asked me if they could meet for the Bible club in my room during my lunch time once a week. I said yes and basically worked the whole time and my stuff. They’d bring in pizza, different youth group leaders to lead in Bible studies or activities and such. They’d invite each other to each other’s churches and activities and work together for community-wide service events. And all I the teacher had to do was be there to supervise. But I could have said “No.”<br />
<b> </b> So there you go. That’s it for Round one exploring the rights of students and how they can live out their various belief systems. Stay tuned for more videos about Teachers Rights and maybe a couple more.<br />
<b>Conversation of the Day</b>: What questions do you have about students’ rights to practice their faith at their public school?<br />
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Jonathan Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06948573981422234209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4155825625118290982.post-15320415760788169522017-03-21T17:35:00.001-04:002017-08-26T15:53:48.161-04:00The First Person Teachers Should Help Each Day (Episode 65) Today, we’re gonna talk about the <b>first person teachers should help each day</b>.<br />
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<b> </b> If you’ve flown on an airplane before, you likely remember the presentation the flight attendants give showing you what to do if there is an emergency. Seatbelts, flotation devices, all that. And the breathing masks. Do you remember what they say about putting on the mask?<br />
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“Remember to put your own mask on first before trying to help anyone else.”</blockquote>
<b> </b> I love that. It’s so simple and clear … put our own masks on first. It’s so easy to forget that day to day. Especially for us teachers. We teachers are super giving people. We’re sacrificial. Most of us became teachers so we could make a difference in the lives of children and the future adults they’ll become. We care. The trouble comes when … in our caring so much for others … we sacrifice caring for ourselves.<br />
<b> </b> And we’ve actually had this topic in our list for a while, so today felt like the perfect day to discuss it because he’s sick. :)<br />
<b> </b> Yup, two weeks ago, I took an overnight red-eye back home, got sick later that day, and have had some version of something for two weeks now. As I look back, it’s likely because of a combination of choices to not care for myself first.<br />
<b> </b> So what could this look like … this “caring for ourselves first”?<br />
<b> </b> In no particular order … <b><span style="font-size: large;">Food </span></b>is crucial. It’s our fuel. If we’re putting bad fuel into our bodies, we won’t run well. We’ll be tired, won’t be able to focus, and all kinds of other things.<br />
<b> </b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">Exercise</span></b>. So many studies show that exercise gives us physical energy, and stimulates our minds, and helps us sleep better.<br />
<b> </b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">Sleep</span></b>. Gotta sleep. I love me my sleep. They say 7 hours minimum for adults. I know many of us buck that system a lot and might even believe our bodies and minds are different. We’re not going deep into that here today, but we are going to ask if we’re “putting on our own mask first” by getting enough sleep.<br />
<b> </b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">Mental health</span></b>. Shakespeare said, “To thine own self be true.” We’ve gotta know ourselves. How is our mind doing? Our emotional state? Our psyche? Are we good? Do we need to talk with an expert about it? There isn’t any shame in doing so, even if it feels like there is.<br />
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<b> </b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">Balance</span></b>. We’ve talked about it all through <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-qzn25_Txo&list=PLQjFNUOUPixaI2FGVNzlGx4MK-ovNgIoP">our series of videos on HOW TO LEAVE ON TIME AND NEVER TAKE PAPERS HOME AGAIN</a>. We’ll say it again … we have to set boundaries and stick to them. We need to zoom out and examine if it feels like a certain part of our lives is taking over the others. Is it? If so, we likely have a balance issue. It’s hard work, but we’ve gotta wrestle things back into alignment. Put our own masks on first.<br />
<b> </b> If we don’t, how will we expect to pour everything we’ve got into our moments teaching and with our learners? How will we be balanced enough to pour into our teaching colleagues? To respond well to parents? To respect and collaborate with our admin? To handle the daily looming tide of teaching pressures?<br />
<b> </b> Put our own masks on first. So what does that look like for you today? Where do you need to start? What’s your next step?<br />
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Jonathan Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06948573981422234209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4155825625118290982.post-48818262980345787982017-03-02T05:44:00.001-05:002017-03-02T07:16:26.091-05:00We Dare You to Read These 32 Books and Not Improve Your Money Life<br />
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<span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span></span><span>* TOTAL MONEY MAKEOVER by Dave Ramsey </span><br /><span>* THE WAR OF ART by Stephen Pressfield</span><br /><span>* A RANDOM WALK DOWN WALL STREET by Burton Malkiel</span><br /><span>* RICH DAD, POOR DAD by Robert Kiyosaki</span><br /><span>* THE RICHEST MAN IN BABYLON by George Clason</span><br /><span>* CRUSH IT by Gary Vaynerchuk</span><br /><span>* THE FOUR HOUR WORK WEEK by Timothy Ferris</span><br /><span>* THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR by Thomas Stanley</span><br /><span>* THE THANK YOU ECONOMY by Gary Vaynerchuk</span><br /><span>* TRIBES by Seth Godin</span><br /><span>* LYNCHPIN by Seth Godin</span><br /><span>* OUTLIERS by Malcolm Gladwell</span><br /><span>* BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY by Renee Mauborgne</span><br /><span>* JAB, JAB, JAB, RIGHT HOOK by Gary Vaynerchuk</span><br /><span>* MADE TO STICK by Chip Heath </span><br /><span>* THE OTHER 8 HOURS by Robert Pagliarini</span><br /><span>* THE MILLIONAIRE MIND by Thomas Stanley</span><br /><span>* THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR by Benjamin Graham</span><br /><span>* HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE by Dale Carnegie</span><br /><span>* 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE by Stephen Covey </span><br /><span>* Every book by Patrick Lencioni</span><br /><span>* THINK AND GROW RICH by Napoleon Hill</span><br /><span>* PURPLE COW by Seth Godin</span><br /><span>* THE DIP by Seth Godin</span><br /><span>* DELIVERING HAPPINESS by Tony Hsieh</span><br /><span>* FISH by Stephin Lundin</span><br /><span>* GOOD TO GREAT by Jim Collins</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Jonathan Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06948573981422234209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4155825625118290982.post-52281276692369285912017-01-27T09:25:00.002-05:002017-08-26T15:56:13.387-04:00Teacher Q&A - Grading Essays 10x FasterFirst off, if you haven't <a href="https://youtu.be/6syYDbjNbGY" target="_blank">watched <b>the original video</b></a>, do that now. Unless, of course, your favorite weekends are the ones you spend grading papers ... in that case, as you were. <br />
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<br />Jonathan Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06948573981422234209noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4155825625118290982.post-7790950026009564282017-01-14T12:30:00.000-05:002017-08-26T15:56:29.297-04:00What the Ditto is a Worksheet? (Episode 64) <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today, we’re gonna talk about<b> the wonderful world of worksheets and why some teachers think they’re the devil. </b>Oh, the warmth of fresh copied papers ... And the glorious smell of the ditto papers…<b><br /></b><br />
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Oh, if I had a papercut for every time I heard someone talk down about “worksheet teachers...” We probably all know the concept of the “worksheet and video teacher.” You know, that teacher we imagine never engages his classroom and sits behind his desk organizing his fantasy football team or shopping for her new season wardrobe. <br />
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<b>There’s something about this term “worksheet” that carries a negative connotation nowadays.</b> We recently saw a discourse on Facebook where teachers were discussing worksheets and lots of shame was being heaped on people. Oh, the online shame-heaping. <br />
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Here are some quotes from this conversation:<br />
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<li>“Teachers that use lots of worksheets are crappy teachers.”</li>
<li>“If you are dependent on worksheets and workbooks to get learning to stick, it’s a problem.”</li>
<li>“Worksheets do not challenge students to think, but rather to replicate.”</li>
<li>“Worksheets are for lazy teachers who can’t teach.”</li>
<li>“Worksheets = drone work.”</li>
<li>“How about just STOP it with the worksheets!”</li>
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It’s all pretty negative, but I think part of this is because <b>we’re functioning under different ideas of what a worksheet is.</b> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>So what do we mean by “worksheet”?</b></span> <br />
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Do we mean anything that is <b>photocopied or printed</b>? So are we supposed to live in a world without photocopiers because everything on paper is a worksheet and therefore terrible?<br />
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Do we mean a <b>boring assignment</b> on paper?<br />
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Do we mean a <b>graphic organizer</b>?<br />
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Do we mean <b>“shut up sheets”</b>?<br />
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If it’s in <b>Google Drive</b>, is it no longer a worksheet?<br />
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What if it’s in an <b>interactive notebook</b> with scissors and glue?<br />
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Do we mean anything that is <b>busy work</b>?<br />
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Because we never define this, I have a hunch this is shame language for something much more complex than we’re giving it credit for. Especially with all the data coming out about how we learn better when we physically write things out as compared to typing. By being against worksheets are we really saying we’re against students writing their thoughts down on paper with a pen?<br />
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I think what we’re really talking about is depth and complexity. Critical thinking. Does the assignment actually get students thinking or not? I think we’re talking about what Benjamin Bloom put in his graphic organizer we call “Bloom’s Taxonomy.”Knowledge > Remember previously learned information<br />
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<li>Comprehension > Demonstrate understanding of the facts</li>
<li>Application > Apply knowledge to actual situations</li>
<li>Analysis > Break down objects or ideas into simpler parts and find evidence to support generalizations</li>
<li>Synthesis > Compile component ideas into a new whole or propose alternative solutions</li>
<li>Evaluation > Make and defend judgments based on internal evidence or external criteria</li>
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So when we’re talking bad about worksheets, which level of Bloom’s Taxonomy and higher order thinking skills are we saying these bad worksheets accomplish? <br />
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<li>Are we saying we’re against knowledge worksheets? </li>
<li>Comprehension worksheets?</li>
<li>Application worksheets?</li>
<li>Analysis worksheets?</li>
<li>Synthesis worksheets?</li>
<li>Evaluation worksheets?</li>
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I imagine we’re talking about knowledge and comprehension level stuff. Aren’t we also talking about some of the really ineffective “teaching” methods or classroom management methods connected with teachers who hand out knowledge and comprehension worksheets a lot? And aren’t we also talking about how boring and out-of-date those worksheets look most of the time?<br />
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So if we were using paper assignments where students were applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating their world, their novels, or whatever they’re studying, we’d be okay with that, right?<br />
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Someone else in the conversation says, “There’s an art to utilizing a worksheet.” And I totally agree with this. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>There’s an art to utilizing anything in the classroom. Teaching is an art.</b></span> It doesn’t matter which classroom tool we’re using at whatever level of Bloom’s Taxonomy, it takes artful teaching to engage the students and make the learning stick. <br />
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Another factor here is the large teacher conversation right now about <b>student-driven learning</b>, giving students the reins to their learning instead of the teacher being the deliverer of all information. And in with that conversation in mind, I find it hard to imagine a worksheet that does very well at student-driven learning.<br />
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Worksheets (no matter how good they are at applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating) are more difficult to make student-directed. They required students to go independently practice and come back and the teacher has to do this artful dance of making the discussion about what they wrote down on their worksheet interesting and helpful the second time around. <br />
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Do you think worksheets have a more negative connotation in elementary or secondary?<br />
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Ultimately, our goal today was to hopefully release some of us from the shame of using worksheets. And we wanted to focus the conversation to where we think it really matters, which is: “Do our current worksheets challenge our students to think, or just to replicate?” And how can we adjust them or find new ones that really encourage deeper thinking. <br />
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We think we’ve created many deep-thinking resources over in our teaching store, so if you’re looking for grammar, writing, and novel study resources, head on over there.<br />
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Jonathan Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06948573981422234209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4155825625118290982.post-34509912683005737062017-01-04T12:08:00.001-05:002017-08-26T15:57:23.271-04:00Get ALL Your Students to Do Their Homework over the Holidays (Episode 63) <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ever have trouble getting your students to do their homework over holiday? Today, we’re gonna share <b>the magical secret to get EVERY STUDENT to do their homework over the holidays</b>. <b><br /></b><br />
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Whether you’re in Australia with 4 holidays (I love year round schedule) or Britain with 6 or the United States with a bunch of various length holidays, the holidays are coming and so is your decision … Do I give them homework over the break? And if I assign any, is there a snowman’s hope in hell of them actually doing it?<br />
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We assign them projects. Essays. Reading assignments. Group projects. Bundles of practice work. So the question is … Why? Why do we assign them the homework?<br />
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<b>We feel guilty</b> that we’re behind in our lesson plans and need them to catch up, so we feel better. And we might even be blaming them for our plans being behind.<br />
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We want them to <b>keep progressing along</b>.<br />
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We feel some <b>unseen pressure</b> from someone to keep our kids doing stuff all the time or we’re a bad teacher. Is this an imaginary pressure? <br />
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We just know they’re <b>going to waste all that time</b> watching movies and playing video games, so we need to give them something worthwhile to do with their time.<br />
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Whatever the reasons are, the day after we return from break has the same result every time. The smart, responsible kids did their homework. And they feel good about themselves because they know there’s a good 40% of the students who didn’t do anything and are feeling like failures, so they get to feel good. They also likely hate you, teacher, just a little bit for making them feel guilty enough over break to do their work so they wouldn’t have to feel like those losers over there.<br />
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The reality for those responsible kids is that they are always responsible like that, so they needed a break. And with honors kids, we needed to force them to shut off and take a break because they won’t do it on their own.<br />
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And for the usually “not responsible” kids, if we’re honest we knew they weren’t going to do their homework. They’re just not. And we’re either hoping they’ll do the right thing for once or that they’ll feel bad about not doing the right thing so they’ll do the right thing next time.<br />
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Well, and then there are all the complexities of our students’ home lives, the possibilities are too many to list, but maybe the “not responsible” kids have enough stress to handle at home without homework being added. Often the students that struggle with or don’t understand homework, don’t have support at home that would make the homework valuable practice anyways. This isn’t said to shame the families, juggling family life responsibilities can just be chaotic. <br />
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<i><b>Now, as parents, we’ll be blunt, we don’t like the responsibility looming of making sure there is time for our kids to do their homework.</b></i> We’re planning festivities, traveling to see family, trying to remember to do memorable traditions with the kids, juggling childcare and work, encouraging a heart of thinking of others, and practicing parenting shame resiliency . . . the last thing I want to do is make my kid complete homework. <br />
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So are you ready for the magical secret to get your every student to do their homework over the holidays? Here it is … <br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>DON’T ASSIGN ANY HOMEWORK. </b></span><br />
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<b>Every kid will do it. </b>They’ll survive. Heck, they might thrive. They’ll come back <b>refreshed</b>. They’ll come back <b>not feeling guilty</b>. They’ll come back <b>loving you</b> because other teachers gave them homework. You won’t have a <b>pile of busy work</b> to grade. You won’t have to dive right into <b>project presentations</b>. You won’t have to have those <b>tough phone calls</b> with parents about why their kid didn’t do homework over break.<br />
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So we give you permission, in case no one has given you permission before or you’ve been feeling that unseen, unspoken pressure … You can assign ZERO homework over break and still be a good teacher! In fact, you should leave all your papers at school too. No homework for you either! Leave them all at school, and you’ll still be a good teacher. Make sure you’ve got things planned for those 1st two days back after holiday, then walk out with NOTHING. <br />
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Or if you’re going to assign anything at all, maybe just a little reading. But even then we’re going to feel like we need to assign a whole book or 5 chapters of the novel we’re studying in class. Then we have to deal with the 40% of them who don’t read the chapters and now what do we do because we’re not all in the same spot in the novel.<br />
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So we give you permission to fight the urge … don’t assign any homework … for the rest of your teaching career you can make sure your learners always do their homework over holiday.<br />
<b>Conversation of the Day</b>: What is getting in your way from assigning ZERO homework over holidays?<br />
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Jonathan Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06948573981422234209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4155825625118290982.post-11311701786287058642016-12-12T17:14:00.003-05:002017-08-26T15:57:37.712-04:00When a Student Yells "Santa is Satan" ... Other Holiday Fun (Episode 62)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today, we’re gonna talk about <b>When Your Student Yells, “Santa is Satan!”</b> and Other Holiday Respect Conversations. <b><br /></b><br />
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Christmas time! Yay! <br />
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No … it’s Happy Holiday time.<br />
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But what if it isn’t “happy” for me?<br />
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What’s not happy about snow days? <br />
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I grew up in California where there isn’t really “winter” and we never got any of your stupid snow days.”<br />
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Oh, as teachers how do we handle this?! We are going to share some of our thoughts and experiences from holidays in the classroom. The hope with this is not to tell you what you should be doing in the classroom but to get you thinking about how you handle the holidays and the effect it has on your students and the classroom environment as a whole.<br />
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This topic can get heated because there are some <b>strong beliefs involved with the “Holiday Season”</b> and when it comes down to it causes us to question our own personal truth about our existence. If we let it. <br />
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Let’s not get that deep right now. Let’s just focus on some basics. We as teachers get to decide how we want to direct our classroom environment to be. <br />
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The decision is affected by whether you teach at a public or private school. If you teach at a religious private school the decision may be easier for you. If you are at a public school that doesn’t have administrative restrictions, you get to decide if you are going to try to represent all holiday traditions in your classroom or are you going to avoid teaching about any holiday themes. <br />
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In elementary school we are often with the same group of kids so you might have time to integrate themes into your classroom more extensively. <br />
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With secondary I had lots of students for a shorter periods of time. <br />
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I’m the type of person that tends to be hyper-sensitive to the complexities of situations or possible complexities. So for my peace of mind and attempt to decrease my stress, I chose not to teach holiday traditions.<br />
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So what complexities do you identify with the holiday season? <br />
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Identifying all the holiday traditions that my students could possibly celebrate while not unintentionally offending anyone with how they are represented.<br />
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I can think of: <b>Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christian Christmas with Jesus, secular Christmas with Santa</b>, a mixture of both, people that don’t celebrate anything, and people that don’t celebrate things, like Jehovah’s Witnesses. <br />
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I avoided all that stress on myself and just kept my classroom winter-themed with snowmen and snowflakes. I like snowmen. <br />
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Snowmen or snowpeople?<br />
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Ok, snowpeople. <br />
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Anyway, I taught first and second grade and even though I just integrated fun winter themes into our classroom activities, holiday always came up when kids talked about life. So during casual student discourse things always came up:<br />
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<li>there was always some variation of a conversation about Santa not being real, that is often debated in the lower grades, </li>
<li>or even if a child believed in Santa, another student told them, “You’re going to Hell!” . . . yes, more than once that was said. </li>
<li>Talks about Jesus being real</li>
<li>Whatever the variation of the conversation, these were distressing to the students involved in the conversation. </li>
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Usually I only needed to address it with the small group of students that were involved in the discussions. I think one year I needed to address it as a whole class because there was a particularly passionate and vocal student about their personal worldview being right. <br />
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I would love to hear other teachers’ stories of how they handle these situations. I tried to model listening that showed people were heard and respected. <br />
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<b>Don’t take sides! You are the mediator.</b><br />
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You are the teacher, you are neutral (unless you are at a private school where your beliefs are accepted as the dominant belief).<br />
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In this world lots of people believe different things and celebrate differently. It’s interesting to learn about each other and how we live life. We want to remember to always show respect to each other. I would ask them if they wanted the other student to make them feel bad for what they believe, they would say no. So I reminded them to treat each other the way they wanted to be treated.<br />
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The possibly more distressing example, “<b>Santa is Satan</b>!” (In secondary grades, this morphs to “<b>Santa anagrams to Satan</b> … they have all the same letters” to which I would answer, “Yes, and <b>Britney Spears anagrams to Presbyterian</b>! Is that supposed to mean something?”) To which they reply, “Who’s that?” “Wait, is she that crazy old mom lady who shaved her hair?”<br />
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I’d leave the Santa is Satan situation to a one-on-one conversation with the student.<br />
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When I was asked <b>bluntly by students during school hours</b>, I tried to switch to questions about their beliefs. I used <b>redirection</b>. Example: Is Santa real? Me: Do you celebrate Santa? Does Santa bring you gifts? Etc. Most students didn’t realize I didn’t answer. Or I would just say those are conversations they can have with their parents.<br />
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<li>Identify that they have different views or experiences.</li>
<li>Tell them it is important to show kindness and respect. </li>
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Basically I taught them to either respectfully ask each other about what they believe OR agree to disagree and change the subject.<br />
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Always remember there are most likely parents or guardians represented by each of these students and imagine they are hearing what you are saying to their children and whether they will approve. I often told students to talk to their parents about whatever topic distressed the student.<br />
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Can you defend your approach to how you addressed the disagreement in a way that will be acceptable to the parents and your administration? <br />
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If you need a quick out, you can redirect students to what they should be focused on but log the disagreement in your mind because things can brew from strong feelings from opposing views that aren’t talked through. <br />
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Today, we’re gonna discuss whether students should use Wikipedia and what teachers should do about it. <b>Consider the can of worms opened... </b><br />
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Just <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=reasons+teachers+ban+wikipedia&biw=1166&bih=638&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwisi_jLhdbQAhXI54MKHTuCCbUQ_AUIBygC&dpr=0.9#tbm=isch&q=teachers+wikipedia"><b>Google “Teachers + Wikipedia,”</b></a> and you’ll find plenty of comical graphs showing how much <b>teachers hate Wikipedia more than</b> ...<br />
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<li>Bad behavior</li>
<li>Sloppy handwriting</li>
<li>Spelling errors</li>
<li>Cheating</li>
<li>Late work</li>
<li>Tardiness</li>
<li>People who don’t try</li>
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Ask <b>teachers</b>, and you’ll hear reasons like ...<br />
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<li>It’s unreliable.</li>
<li>Anybody can edit it.</li>
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Ask <b>students</b>, and they’ll say teachers don’t like Wikipedia because ...<br />
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<li>It makes our work too easy.”</li>
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So should teachers hate Wikipedia? And should students be allowed to use it? Or both? Or neither? Let’s dive in and talk about this juicy controversy.<br />
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Wikipedia was founded in January of 2001 with the vision of being a completely crowd-created, collaborative encyclopedia. In in its first 15 years of existence, <a href="https://www.wikipedia.org/">it has become the largest encyclopedia in world history, currently home to over 16 million articles in many languages. Currently the 6th most trafficked website on the Internet, it is one of the most successful crowd-sourcing projects in history. It has put many of the long-time encyclopedias out of business and has changed the world of learning. </a><br />
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I don’t think the question is whether Wikipedia is large and making an impact … it’s whether students should use it.<b> </b><br />
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So let’s tackle the big reasons teachers give.<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>(REASON #1) It’s unreliable.</b></span><br />
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The claim is that while Wikipedia has good information on it, there is lots of incorrect info too. Which is true. Let’s start there. (<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia">List of Wikipedia hoaxes</a>) It’s also no different than the alternative. Are we going to send students to the library to find accurate information in those 20 year old encyclopedia sets? Does our school have a paid subscription to a formal encyclopedia like Britannica?<b> </b><br />
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Isn’t this one of the reasons we complain about our textbooks: they’re too old and out-of-date? It’s kind of contradictory to then turn around and take a stance in favor of old encyclopedias, right?<br />
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It’s a balancing act. Would we rather have students using a 20-year-old inaccurate encyclopedia or an up-to-date inaccurate one?<b> </b><br />
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We’ve gotta remember the role of encyclopedias in research. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academic_use">They are a starting point. They are tertiary research. </a>Whether using Britannica or Wikipedia, students are only supposed to start with them to know what to research further. And if that’s the role, then shouldn’t we use the one that has the most current research?<br />
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<b>At my last school</b>, I had a comical feud going with a couple of teachers about Wikipedia. So during their research projects on diseases, I threw the gauntlet down. I found out one of their diseases from the list and decided to compare the research. My school library had 2 encyclopedia sets. I found the disease in each. Both had the same common info and 2 bibliography sources. On Wikipedia, I found a lot more information, much of it much more recent. And then at the bottom, I found 67 links to academic research articles. Many were recent, even in the past couple of weeks, and the 2 from the other encyclopedias were there in the list. So Wikipedia had everything the others did + 65 more academic links.<br />
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<b>When our daughter was born</b>, she was diagnosed with a metabolic disorder that we’d never heard anything about -- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnitine_palmitoyltransferase_II">Carnitine palmitoyltransferase II deficiency (CPT-II)</a>. There were only a few doctors in the U.S. who specialized in it, and one was in our Kaiser network. Besides talking with the doctor, Wikipedia was an amazing resource. 7 pages of scientific information with genetic graphs and 20 scientific study articles for us to start our research. No book in the world or encyclopedia anywhere would have had the information we needed.<br />
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So is Wikipedia unreliable? <u><b>VERDICT: Not any more than any other encyclopedia.</b></u><span style="font-size: large;"><b>(REASON #2) Anybody can edit it.</b></span><br />
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This is also true. <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32412121">Read more by the BBC</a>.<b> </b><br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student">Just before filming this, I made an edit to the page on “Student.” And it’s still there.</a> It’s a good edit that should probably stay included.<br />
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Many ago, I made an edit to the page for the town of Ferndale, CA, because my grandma was a local painter who sold her paintings in that town. That edit was up for a week, then was removed, probably because it broke the self-promotion rule.<br />
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Though, instead of it being viewed as a negative, Wikipedia holds that as its cornerstone value. This is what makes it so amazing. Instead of being limited to a few paid geek researchers whose research is out-of-date the moment they send it to their publishing editors for review, Wikipedia relies on a multitude of free geek editors who are avid about informational accuracy. Let’s be honest, if you’ve volunteered your time as a Wikipedia curator of any info area, then you care deeply and probably know your stuff. Sure, there are the occasional vandalizer adults or punk kids, and at any random moment in time you could access a page that has just been defaced. <br />
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But let me quote Wikipedia here:<br />
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<i>Wikipedia's primary editorial control, that ensures the bulk of its quality, is simply the sheer volume of well-intentioned editors who regularly and constantly watch over its articles. At any given time, a large number of the thousands of active Wikipedians will be using, checking, or editing the articles held. Each of these has their own watchlist, a special page that lists changes to the articles they have worked on or are otherwise choosing to watch. Hundreds of Wikipedians use automated software tools (described below) to watch edits en masse. On average, only a few minutes lie between a blatantly bad or harmful edit, and some editor noticing and acting on it. Repeated edits tend to lead rapidly to escalation of the process, further safeguards and actions, and the involvement of others, including possible use of administrator powers or dispute resolution depending on the situation.</i></blockquote>
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The reality is that the Wikipedia leaders care deeply about the accuracy of the information found there, and so do all the volunteer geeks who curate their info kingdoms. (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editorial_oversight_and_control">Wikipedia Editorial Oversight and Control article</a>)<b> </b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>THE BIG QUESTION IS: “SHOULD STUDENTS BE ALLOWED TO USE IT?”</b></span><br />
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Let’s start with what they should NOT DO.<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>NOT Quote from it in their papers.</b></span> </span>Not giant paragraphs. Not single sentences. No quoting. No copying. <br />
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Again, encyclopedias are starting points. They should treated as such … hubs of information from which to do more research. And as far as hubs of information go … Wikipedia is, hands down and unquestionably, better than any print encyclopedia.<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>NOT Use it in their Works Cited or Bibliographies.</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Because … you know … they shouldn’t be quoting from it in their papers. :)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>So what SHOULD THEY USE it for?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Initial Learning</b></span><br />
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If you don’t know anything about a topic or need a refresher, it’s a superb source to learn what you need to learn.<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Research</b></span><br />
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Unlike print encyclopedias, Wikipedia articles have hyperlinks embedded in the articles that allow you to do research on any term in the article that you don’t know what it means. This research method is how today’s students’ brains work, and they’re way more likely to look something up that they don’t know.<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Further Research</b></span><br />
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At the bottom of each Wikipedia article, you’ll find a list of academic sources to do further research. Direct your students to use this list. These are the sources they should read, study, and cite in their essays. This are the gold mines of info. And other people collected them all in one spot for you. I’ve never heard a teacher give any reason why a student shouldn’t use this list.<br />
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So should students be allowed to use Wikipedia?<b> </b><br />
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<b>VERDICT: We think … absolutely.</b><br />
But only if these things happen first:<br />
<ul>
<li>You <b>stop being a fuddy duddy</b>. For a long time, common teacher opinion has been to shun and ban Wikipedia, and your feelings are very wrapped up in this.</li>
<li>You <b>train your students how to use it</b>. No wonder our students have been using it incorrectly, we’ve refused to train them. As with any powerful tool, users should be trained. So train them. Stop being afraid of it, and teach them how to use it. Teach them where it fits within the process of researching and learning. Include it in your discussions about how to find reputable sources online that you can trust. </li>
<li><b>Inform them of the consequences</b> for incorrect use of the site in their essays.</li>
<li><b>Protect your reputation</b>. We wouldn’t say this out loud, but for those of us who have been very vocal against Wikipedia, we probably need a game plan to save face. How do you shift over to using Wikipedia in front of your students if you’ve been against it for so long? It’s easy … you ready? … You admit you were wrong. Like any good learner, you did some more research into it, and you learned some things you didn’t know before, and now you’re going to teach them how to use it the right way. Tada!!! :)</li>
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How many <b>sick days</b> does your school give you this year? <br />
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How many <b>personal days</b>? <br />
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How many do they make you <b>pay for</b>? <br />
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How many have you <b>used</b>? <br />
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How many did you use <b>last year</b>? <br />
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What did you use them for? <br />
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Are you <b>saving them all up</b> for the end of your teaching career and retirement? <br />
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Of course, they're called sick days for a reason, so you want to make sure you have enough of those when you need them. But we want to add a layer of ideas to the topic of sick days. <br />
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My thoughts on this started one day when someone cracked a joke and said she was going to take a <b>“mental health day.”</b> I laughed, of course, but then got to thinking how great an idea that sounded. <br />
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This idea might be something you already think about or it might be brand new. What do you think about using your sick days before you actually get sick so that maybe you won't get sick or worn down? <br />
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1st, let's get all the talk about <b>retirement </b>and <b>maternity leave</b> out of the way. <br />
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In some states, you're unused sick days add up, and there's an incentive to not use them so they add up as paid retirement days or extra years on your years of service. If that's your goal, that totally makes sense. In this increasingly tough national teaching environment, we would ask you to consider if feeling less stressed and more rested might actually prevent burnout and get you closer to retirement?<br />
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And if you're planning on having a child, take that into consideration for maternity or paternity leave. <br />
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And now that you've thought about all that, then let's dive in. <span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>PLANNING</b></span><br />
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Ever feel like you're behind on your planning and it's wearing down your soul? Before you get actually sick, why not take a day every other month to plan ahead. Take 1-2 hours and reflect on the past weeks and how effective they've been. Make notes for next year. Take 1-2 hours to plan the upcoming months. Or if you did this last year, you get to upgrade last year’s plan. You might even pick some strategic spots in the year schedule for this planning day, so it can get you through the next part of the year.<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>GRADING</b></span><b> </b>
...the never-ending monster! What if you planned 1 day a quarter for catching up on and organizing your grading and grades? Think about what that would do for your mental health and stress. But seriously, can we zoom out for a second on that? We're learning more and more that mental health is not just mental … IT IS physical health. No longer do we have to smirk and crack a joke about “mental health days” or “mental sick days.” Mental health and sick = health and sick. So if we're stressed over how far behind we are, we aren't well. For reals! So don't feel bad about getting healthy and getting caught up. <span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>R & R</b></span><br />
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Invest 1-2 days a year into preventative health. Relax. Explore. Adventure. Connect. Go to the beach, mountains, mall, lake, amusement park. If you have personal days too, combine them together next to a 4-day weekend and take a trip. We took a whole week off at the end of Christmas and went to China for 2 weeks. Sure, I had to talk with my principal, make sure it was a good time of year, assure them I had great lesson plans and a solid sub, but then they were fine with it and I came back rejuvenated instead of exhausted. And sure, you've gotta really make sure those bases are covered so they'll say yes again next time, but don't be afraid to stand up for your health and use those days. <br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>LESSON PLANS</b></span><br />
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And for those 1-day absences, now that we're thinking strategic about our health days, here are 2 ideas:<br />
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<li>Develop purposeful, helpful activities that fit into your standards and can be executed by any substitute teacher. Then you don't have to feel bad or fearful that your absence will be wasted. </li>
<li>Purchase some useful lesson plans and resources that would fit those spots in your curriculum. Websites like <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Created-For-Learning">www.TeachersPayTeachers.com</a> can be super helpful for this. </li>
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Hopefully this helps take you further into the conversation of how to keep yourselves healthy and peaceful in the long term. Now go take some practical steps toward using your Pre-Sick Days, so you can work toward health and balance.<br />
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<b> </b> I know mornings can feel rough. Many days, our hugest success feels like simply leaving the house with all our clothes on. But once we're in the car, we’ve got a chunk of time to do something with. Let’s talk about how to use that time to really make an impact on the rest of our day.<br />
You gotta get to work somehow: car, train, subway, bus, bike, walk, carpool. You have some amount of time it takes to commute. Don't underestimate the value of this time. And don't think it's not enough time to really make an impact. It can be huge. <br />
Instead of just vegging out or letting that time happen to us, let's talk about ways to repurpose our commutes for peace and efficiency. <br />
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<li>Pensieve & efficiency planning</li>
<li>Soul Care, meditation, music, & Audiobooks</li>
<li>Relational phone calls … Phone Errands</li>
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Everyone is going to use this time. But now you're going to repurpose it to make a difference. <br />
Your 1st step might be to use your next drive to brainstorm ideas that you could use your drive for. Get them all out. Then next drive come up with a plan. Put it in order, then hold loosely to it. Write it on a notecard and keep it visible in your car, so you see it every drive. Be interruptible for life, of course, but now that you have a plan, you’ll know what to do next each day.<br />
Then put it into plan and get started reclaiming this time to have more peace and efficiency. <br />
<b>Conversation of the Day</b>: What is something you could do during your drive to work that could make your day more peaceful or efficient?<br />
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This Misplaced Modifier contest worked so well in my classroom. The students had so much fun and really got a great review of misplaced modifiers. The students voted for which ones they thought were funniest, and here are the finalists from each of my classes. </div>
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While the Halloween season is fresh in your mind, take a quick sec and check out Ashley Bible's @buildingbooklove Halloween Figurative Language posters. Her resources are seriously so good-looking and solid academically💡. Also, can we stop talking academics for a second and talk about her amazing teacher style👢👗🧣?! I mean, go follow her IG feed to get constant adorable teaching outfits. Then stay for the solid teaching ideas and inspiration. She always seems to be out and about at some fascinating teacher location with some great tips.<br />
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Our learners can always use quality tools to learn to analyze theme better. Our friend Brynn over @TheLiteraryMaven has developed a solid FREE graphic organizer to help with fiction or non-fiction texts. Your learners will created a text-based collage with words, images, and quotations from the text to support their thematic statements. And while you're at it, go become a fan of her IG feed for all kinds of fun resources and teacher inspiration. You'll be glad you did!</div>
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You'll always hear us encouraging teachers to keep finding the right balance between teaching responsibilities and life because a peaceful, restful life is possible in teaching if you fight for it. So when we saw Kristy over @2PeasandaDog talking about Teacher Self Care Tips, we thought that's a perfect thing to share to get us focused this early in the year. The direction we point our ship has a lot to do with where our ship ends up ... so let's point it toward health and wellness and peace this year, yeah? Go check out her blog post and give her feed a follow for lots of helpful teaching schtuff. :) >>> link in our profile >>> <a href="https://2peasandadog.com/2018/03/teacher-self-care-tips.html">https://2peasandadog.com/2018/03/teacher-self-care-tips.html</a></div>
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The new school year comes around and we find ourselves looking for some activities to start the year off with some fun. Shey over @theclassroomsparrow has partnered with the bloggers @secondaryenglishcoffeeshop to give us 10 LESSONS TO TEACH AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR. From email etiquette to short stories to research citation, these activities will give us all kinds of ideas to get our years started with new energy. >>> link in our profile >>> <a href="http://secondaryenglishcoffeeshop.blogspot.com/2018/08/10-lessons-to-teach-at-beginning-of-year.html?m=1">http://secondaryenglishcoffeeshop.blogspot.com/2018/08/10-lessons-to-teach-at-beginning-of-year.html?m=1</a></div>
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Hang around our IG feed for a couple weeks and you'll see that we're on a mission to inspire teachers with the positive and encouraging side of teaching ... the We Can Do It message. That's one reason we love Bonnie's 30-Day Happy Teacher Challenge over @PrestoPlans. They say 30 days makes a habit, and we can't imagine many better habits than being happy. What if this year could be different than the complain around the teacher lounge feeling? What if we could beat the negative messages we tell ourselves every day? Let's do it. And while you're over at her IG feed, give her a follow for other inspiring and practical teaching awesomeness. >>> link in our profile >>> <a href="http://bit.ly/happyteacherchallenge">http://bit.ly/happyteacherchallenge</a></div>
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We love the idea of gamifying the learning process to make things more fun and increase the retention level. Our friend @SecondarySara has written a detailed blog post about her idea of sorting your learners into 4 houses. She describes her whole process and thoughts behind everything, so we can implement things with our learners. You're gonna want to check out her blog post and follow her IG feed. >>> <a href="https://www.secondarysara.com/2018/08/how-i-teach-grammar-grammar-house-cup.html">https://www.secondarysara.com/2018/08/how-i-teach-grammar-grammar-house-cup.html</a></div>
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Grammar can be tough to teach ... and it can be boring. #DeadlyBoring It's one of the dirty secrets of teaching ELA. Our friend Lauralee over at @ELAClassroom felt this reality, so she wrote a grammar workbook ... 3-in-1 actually. Definitely gonna want to find the link in our profile and go follow her IG feed. >>> Check out her book >>> <a href="http://a.co/166LgIo">http://a.co/166LgIo</a></div>
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Sometimes we don't have the time to read an entire play. Sometimes we want a play to be more accessible. Sometimes we just want our learners to be able to access higher level literary pieces. Our friend Danielle over @nouvelle_ela has taken RICHARD III and written an abridgment that can be done in 30 minutes! Amazing! So in one class period, our learners can experience Shakespeare's great story. Check it out at the link in our profile and follow her IG feed >>> <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Richard-III-Shakespeare-in-30-3947234">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Richard-III-Shakespeare-in-30-3947234</a></div>
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We teamed up with our friend @SecondarySara to tackle Literature Discussions in the ELA classroom. Sometimes it can be difficult, and our best-planned discussion gets derailed into AnnoyingLand. So let's dive into the Pitfalls to Avoid during Literature Discussions. What would you add? >>> <a href="http://bit.ly/2K83HCQ">http://bit.ly/2K83HCQ</a></div>
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taking a look at her cool new #BacktoSchoolActivity. She's found a fun way for learners to introduce themselves by designing a family #CoatofArms ... What a super fun idea to break the ice, be creative, and get to know each other! If you're looking for something new to try to kick off your school year, check it out at the link in our profile or over at her IG feed ... which you're going to want to follow because she's amazing and has so many solid ideas for your #SecondaryELA or #BritishHistory classroom. </div>
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Love seeing students learn how to explore their thoughts! Here my students are learning to effectively annotate their reading and how to not get carried away. Check out our OUTSIDERS teaching unit to engage your learners into Ponyboy's world... <a href="http://bit.ly/2H39dVJ">http://bit.ly/2H39dVJ</a> #theoutsiders #ponyboy #sehinton #outsidersunit #novelunit #lessonplan #literatureguides</div>
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Some teachers just go all out when they're teaching a topic. I love it! Check out Brandy Stehle here going full ninja to engage her learners while teaching Grammar Ninja. Full Ninja!!! We can't even begin to show how awesome we think this is. She even made commas for ninja stars!!! (Not) Too much...too much. I imagine Brandy has you fired up about Grammar Ninjas now, so check the link out in our profile >>> <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Commas-Complete-Unit-Lessons-Assessments-Keys-Grammar-Ninja-396664">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Commas-Complete-Unit-Lessons-Assessments-Keys-Grammar-Ninja-396664</a></div>
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This Misplaced Modifier contest worked so well in my classroom. The students had so much fun and really got a great review of misplaced modifiers. The students voted for which ones they thought were funniest, and here are the finalists from each of my classes. </div>
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We absolutely love hearing stories like Danielle's over @SurvivingtheMiddle. She launched off her unit with our engaging PreReading activity where you can see her learners moving to sides of the classroom to state and defend their biases. You could do this after the novel too! It's so powerful to do this before and after the novel to help our learners see the journey they've taken in their opinions. #StayGolden, kids ... #StayGold. Link to unit 》》》 <a href="http://bit.ly/2tLjMrf">http://bit.ly/2tLjMrf</a></div>
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I hope by now you've heard Auggie's favorite song "The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side" by the Magnetic Fields. Your learners are going to love the song and the activity that we have to go along with it.</div>
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This Misplaced Modifier contest worked so well in my classroom. The students had so much fun and really got a great review of misplaced modifiers. The students voted for which ones they thought were funniest, and here are the finalists from each of my classes. </div>
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Our world needs stories like Auggie's today. We could all use those reminders of the ways we don't give others a chance ... the hard spots in our hearts toward people ... we teachers and our learners might think someone else needs it, when really stories like Auggie's are for all of us. They help us #ChooseKind. This plot activity is from our WONDER complete teaching unit (available in print and digital). <a href="http://bit.ly/2zxVt1k">http://bit.ly/2zxVt1k</a> #Wondermovie #thewondermovie</div>
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Today, we’re back with our series <b>How to Leave on Time and NEVER Take Papers Home Again</b>, and we're going to explore how using <b>the Element of Surprise</b> … and <b>the Fear of Missing Out</b> … can <b>help your classroom management</b>. <br />
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Classroom management … it’s kind of this nebulous thing, right? Let’s break it down real quick. What goes into managing our classrooms?<br />
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<li>Getting our students learning. </li>
<li>Engaging their minds and passions</li>
<li>Running things efficiently </li>
<li>Keeping them out of trouble </li>
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So of course our students need to feel comfortable with lots of our consistent procedures. Those are vital. But then there’s all the ways we engage their minds in the midst of all those classroom systems. That’s where we either get creative or get boring.<br />
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So our topic today helps with all four of these. We want to explore how to be <span style="font-size: large;"><b>predictably unpredictable</b></span> ... <span style="font-size: large;">NOT predictably predictable.</span><br />
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Sounds confusing … predictably unpredictable. Let’s go deeper. There are a couple of levels to this. <br />
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<li>Our students know what to expect from ANY ordinary classroom lesson. They’ve seen a lot of them. </li>
<li>They know what to expect from YOUR ordinary classroom lesson.</li>
<li>The question is … What do they expect from yours?</li>
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Think of it this way … Imagine you walk into class tomorrow and tell your students you are going to learn about nouns. Then ask them how they think you’ll teach it. What tools will you use? What methods? That’s the default you’ve been creating. That’s what they expect. <br />
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Then ask yourself … <span style="font-size: large;">are they ever expecting anything surprising from you?</span> Any spontaneity? Do they have to pay attention for fear they’ll miss out on something interesting?<br />
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Some TV examples, Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert are masters at this. There’s a huge element to their shows that you never know what you’re going to get next. But you know that every time you watch them you’re going to not know what will happen. You know that at a couple of key moments they’ll be unpredictable. It’s predictable that they’ll be unpredictable.<br />
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And you don’t want to miss out. They have our attention. We can build that element into our classroom environments. Not only can our content be surprising (e.g. Grammar Ninja) but so can the delivery.<br />
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<b>Students will be engaged, and even the troublemakers won’t feel as much desire to cause trouble</b>. This will help things go more efficiently and will create an environment more passionate about learning. It helps with all 4 areas of classroom management.<br />
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So let’s look at some real classroom examples … let’s take a few standards and brainstorm how to be unpredictable and surprising.<br />
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<b>How about in grammar? Nouns</b>. We all know how to teach a predictable lesson on nouns. The students know exactly what that looks like. So what if you started out with the expected worksheet, bookwork, or PowerPoints … whatever they expect from you. <br />
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Then give them a surprising location or situation and have them brainstorm interesting nouns in that place. <br />
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Or take them safely outside and have them find the most interesting nouns of each category.<br />
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All students are likely to be more engaged and processing what they already learned.<br />
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<b>We could be similarly unpredictable while teaching Prepositions</b>. What if instead of describing what prepositions are, you acted them out. And not just acting them out with an object and an object. You put yourself in the locations compared to something. And what if you planned ahead and didn’t just compare your location to a desk, which is predictable. What if you busted out a beach chair? Or a giant stuffed animal from the county fair? Or a big trash can (use a clean one!)? Take every element of the lesson and make it surprising. The students won’t want to miss out.<br />
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<b>Or what if you’re teaching shapes?</b> You could bring in surprising objects that have shapes. You could take pictures of surprising objects all around your local town that students will recognize. You could even have them with an assignment to take their own pictures of surprising objects around their neighborhood or at school that have all the shapes they’re learning. This could be for young learners or even in secondary level Geometry as they’re learning the different proofs for circles and rhombuses and all that.<br />
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I love what <a href="http://www.studentsofhistory.org/">our friend Luke at <b>Students of History</b></a> is doing. He’s taking his own fun field trips on weekends and filming himself at various historical landmarks and battlefields and giving tours for his students. Then as they learn those topics year after year, it’s surprising and cool to see those locations with, not some random outside person, but with their very own teacher! This is riveting, engaging, and surprising. It shows his street cred and is a creative way to deliver the content instead of him just talking about it that day. <br />
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And as he does that enough in various different ways, he builds a classroom environment where his students can predict that he’ll be unpredictable.<br />
<b>Conversation of the Day</b>: Take a second look at a topic you’re teaching this week and <b>share a way you can teach an element of that lesson in an unpredictable way</b>.<br />
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You might not have heard of the Grammar Ninjas yet, but they’ve heard of you. And they’ve been watching you. Cause they’re ninjas! Today, we’re gonna talk about <b>7 Ways the Grammar Ninjas are better than boring grammar</b>. <br />
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They are a bunch of grammar lessons I created and used in my middle school classrooms to make grammar fun. I was <b>tired of how repetitive grammar can get and how unengaging the topics are</b>, so I decided I wanted something different. And I especially wanted to engage boys, so I thought, What’s better than ninjas!?!<br />
And I remember when Jonathan first came home after teaching these with your students … how excited he was. <br />
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So let’s get into the 7 Ways the Grammar Ninjas are better than boring grammar!<br />
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The Grammar Ninjas are <b>fun</b>. Students love them because they’re so different from any grammar lesson they’ve ever done before. Different is good, especially when it’s quality!<br />
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The Grammar Ninjas <b>know their English standards</b> like the blades on their katanas. They do. Whether it’s Parts of Speech, Commas, Subjects and Verbs or any other grammar topic, the ninjas make sure learners have all the nuances covered.<br />
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The Grammar Ninjas will <b>still let you use your boring grammar books</b>. Jonathan used them every year in his classes. They’re useful … they are. But let’s not kid ourselves about their boredom level. The Ninjas are great supplemental resources to fix all that boredom stuff.<br />
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The Grammar Ninjas are <b>cheesy … and awesome</b>. The humor just keeps coming. Boys and girls alike love to laugh while doing their grammar learning. There are so many jokes mixed in about ninjas that students will be rolling their eyes and still begging for more. <br />
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The Grammar Ninjas <b>go deeper into ninja history and legends</b>. We talk about the famous ninjas, the infamous ones, the legendary stories, the connection to samurai, the historical wars, and the creative tools they used to be so sneaky. Students love learning this new info.<br />
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The Grammar Ninjas <b>tell creative stories about made-up ninjas</b> in ancient and modern contexts. Learners love reading stories, especially about ninjas, which then helps them have fun learning the grammar we’ve attached to the stories.<br />
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The Grammar Ninjas are <b>done for you</b>. As former teachers, we know how much time we spend on planning and making learning interesting, so we know how much time these will save you. And we’re going to be developing a lot more of these in the future, so let us know what you wish you could have.<br />
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Explore all these different ways to <b>invite the Ninjas into your classrooms</b>.<br />
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<li>Grammar Ninja: <a href="http://bit.ly/c4lgrammarninja"><b>Parts of Speech</b> Complete Unit</a></li>
<li>Grammar Ninja: <a href="http://bit.ly/c4lgrammarninja"><b>Commas </b>Complete Unit</a></li>
<li>Grammar Ninja: <a href="http://bit.ly/c4lgrammarninja"><b>Subject & Verb Agreement</b> Complete Unit</a></li>
<li>Grammar Ninja: <a href="http://bit.ly/c4lgrammarninja"><b>Clauses & Phrases</b></a></li>
<li>Grammar Ninja: <a href="http://bit.ly/c4lgrammarninja"><b>Quotation Marks & Underlining</b></a></li>
<li>Grammar Ninja: <b><a href="http://bit.ly/c4lgrammarninja">Dashes & Ellipses</a></b></li>
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<b>Conversation of the Day</b>:What grammar topic do you wish you had non-boring resources to use with your students?<br />
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Jonathan Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06948573981422234209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4155825625118290982.post-30501845100869159912016-08-26T06:00:00.000-04:002017-08-26T15:50:01.229-04:00On Courage & What's Holding Us Back from What We Really Want (Episode 49)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span>Today’s conversation is going to start with <b>a story about my (Lisa's) haircut and courage</b>, then move into what this could mean for us teachers in our classrooms and the level of grit our students have.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">I have wanted to cut my hair short for a long time. Drew Barrymore’s haircut in the movie <u><i>Mad Love</i></u> or Meg Ryan’s hair in <u><i>French Kiss</i></u> have been memorable in my mind for a long time. I tend to grow my hair out for a year or two and then cut it to shoulder or maybe chin-length hair. I love the idea of easy to style, sassy, messy, and cute hair.<b><span style="font-size: large;"> I had never actually had the guts to cut my hair as short as I wanted to try.</span></b> I would always talk myself into cutting it short but ask hairdressers if they thought I could pull off a short cut and I’d always come home with a cute bob cut but deep down I longed for shorter. I had this realization that I was trusting the expertise of hairdressers but they also had their own preferences. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">After my last time of going to a place determined to cut it short and<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span>chickening out, I kept looking at my hair thinking it could be shorter and I could pull it off and still feel pretty. So I waited until I went back to California to a friend that I trusted and had her adventure with me to see what happened when she cut my hair and I trusted her ability to style it cute. She did a fabulous job. I came home and kept squealing at my reflection. I didn't post any pictures to social media because this haircut wasn't meant for others, it was for me. </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">JONATHAN: This got me thinking about this on a bigger scale. This is about so much more than haircuts. This is one example of something we really want to do but are afraid of. And I think we teachers all have at least one thing we’d love to do in our classrooms or careers but for one reason or another, we’re afraid of it. So with your haircut … what were you really afraid of?</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> LISA: </span></span></span></span>I was afraid my hair would look ridiculously bad and people would judge my sanity. I want to look pretty.</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Those are two different answers.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span>That is my answer though.</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So were you more afraid of looking bad personally or more afraid of what other people would think? What was actually holding you back from getting your haircut the way you wanted to try?</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span>I didn’t want a mom haircut. I didn’t want people making fun of me for my choice. I didn’t want to deal with, if people made fun of my haircut and then I couldn’t emotionally handle it, being seen as weak or having a weak self-esteem. When I was growing up I heard a message that if you took sarcasm, jokes, or friendly ridicule too seriously then you needed to lighten up and not take it so seriously. My decision to cut my hair was, deep down, a risk of realizing how weak or strong I might be in response to others' reactions. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So there’s a lot more to your fear than just your hair might look bad?</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span>Yeah.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So this is where your story about a haircut becomes a larger conversation for all of us teachers and students. What things have we been wanting to do for a long time but haven’t done because of fear? It’s helpful to chase these fears all the way back to their source, so we can decide.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span>Yeah, so the source of my fear was feeling weak and not confident in myself. When I finally said, “Screw it! I’m gonna cut my hair,” was when I decided to ignore the fear and take the risk. It was really me saying, “I can handle my own personal struggle if my hair looks crappy and I think I’m emotionally able to handle criticism about my hair, because it is hair and it will just grow back. I don’t care if people think I’m crazy or judge my sanity based on this choice.”</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So were you afraid of what they’d say or what you thought they’d say?</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span>Both, I think. But as I think about it now, the people who are close to me would be totally supportive, even if it looked horrible. So I don’t have to worry about my close people.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So it’s more the people that you don’t really know?</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span>Yeah, there is a ring of people, outside of my close friends, that are more than acquaintances and I was worried about what they might say about me.</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> My way of controlling the situation and what people might think or say about me was to stay with the acceptable, safe choice.</span></span></span></span> I’m realizing that our fears about all that might be keeping us from trying so many things that we might love.</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Like your haircut.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span>Yes! *squeeeee*</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">How many years have you wanted to cut your hair short?</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span>A long time. So I could have had this happy haircut for so many years.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I love that point. How many things are we afraid of that we could have already done and been enjoying all these years?</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span>Let’s move this over into the teaching world. So a question might be, “What have I wanted to try in my classroom that I could try this year?” “Why haven’t I tried it?” “What am I afraid of?” <br />What is the root of that fear? It could be fear of looking incompetent <br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span>Being sensitive of what others think is normal. It is needed to not live our lives selfishly. </span></span></span></span><br />
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Jonathan Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06948573981422234209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4155825625118290982.post-41037379839637602252016-08-24T17:32:00.001-04:002017-08-26T15:49:34.212-04:00Hook Your Students from the Start of Each Novel Study (Episode 52) Today, we’re going to talk about <b>Class Novel Studies</b> and <b>how to hook student learners</b> from the Get-Go.<br />
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Maybe you’ve been there before … you’re about to start a 6-week study through a novel and you’re looking for a way to get them into it … to get them emotionally engaged … to get them to not be bored. So we want to give you a quick practical tip to get things started off right.<br />
<a href="http://createdforlearning.blogspot.com/2014/10/death-by-classroom-how-to-save-our.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Death by Classroom: How to save our meetings from the doom of boredom" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0u1oFR-jQ6pzJYOyFlHcdTj-bpMPjRlHkPH34ZAZbW-wL2HEu1Pwi1rnbBzBsTz-fYE7cC_BwEvNOLz-OFE8VQjOtU1FEx98hr44D4NMeGa0T3P7sP2_yF3AKiJqepToetObUJB1sfaEr/s200/DeathByClassroom-Instagram.jpg" title="Death by Classroom: How to save our meetings from the doom of boredom" width="200" /></a> <a href="http://createdforlearning.blogspot.com/2014/10/death-by-classroom-how-to-save-our.html">Patrick Lencioni’s book DEATH BY MEETING (Read the other blog we mentioned in the vid ... on Death by Classroom and how to use conflict to liven up classroom management.</a>) talks about the most interesting thing to us humans … and yes, students are humans too … the most interesting thing to us is ………….. Conflict! We love it. We love to disagree and fight and discuss and joust and all that. <b>So when thinking about how to start your novel off, think how can I engage them in healthy conflict to start? </b> Another super important way to engage them is to <b>activate prior knowledge and opinions</b>. People love sharing their opinions and what they already know. They love feeling like they’re in on the conversation and have something to contribute.<br />
<a href="http://createdforlearning.blogspot.com/2016/08/hook-your-students-from-start-of-each_24.html" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="So you're looking for that perfect activity to hook the students from the start of a novel study? We're here to help. Today, we talk through the 3 crucial elements to any engaging introduction activity. " border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih2OAYSCZj_y1UxfvmTcVOyKX2HNTb3xXH2-6swYebEqKCiPsr3k4e-RFhRN9ddmm9OfV8RFCnoEVrcjPLdXca-EIZjRWNMplcQ7sVPAe_vLc9Dl0oqVTRPFJ9hUxA71GTf65qt0wJwU9V/s320/052---Kick-Your-Novel-Studies-Off-with-a-Bang-INSTA.jpg" title="So you're looking for that perfect activity to hook the students from the start of a novel study? We're here to help. Today, we talk through the 3 crucial elements to any engaging introduction activity. " width="320" /></a> And since we’ll be studying the novel for a while, wouldn’t it be great if we could <b>foreshadow the important themes and events and plant seeds in their minds</b>?! <br />
We start all of our novel units the same way, and we want to teach you how. Our method does all of these: instigating healthy conflict, engaging prior knowledge and opinions, and foreshadowing compelling themes that will come up in the story.<br />
We think through the major themes and events in the story. Then we craft <b>9 statements that assert something to be true</b>. Some samples: <br />
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<li>It is okay to lie to people. (<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/GIVER-PreReading-Bias-Activity-1236976">The Giver</a>)</li>
<li>People are the result of their choices, not the environment they grew up. (<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/OUTSIDERS-PreReading-Bias-Activity-1429474">The Outsiders</a>)</li>
<li>Some kinds of people are trash compared to others. (<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/TO-KILL-A-MOCKINGBIRD-PreReading-Bias-Discussion-Activity-1301843">To Kill a Mockingbird</a>)</li>
<li>Everyone should have to work just as hard, no matter how rich they are. (<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/GREAT-GATSBY-PreReading-Bias-1137186">The Great Gatsby</a>)</li>
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The purpose here is to <b>make them choose a side</b>. No maybes here. <br />
This gets really fun when you get the learners up and moving around the room. 1st, have them make their 9 choices on their own. Then have them stand up and move <b>physically to different sides of the room depending on their opinion</b> on each question. Agree … over here. Disagree … over here. (We like to use a PowerPoint with each prompt on it to project so we can examine and analyze all the words we disagree on).<br />
I love this activity because <b>they all have opinions and in this fun action format, they all really love sharing their ideas</b>. As the teacher, you’ll need to moderate the environment with respect, but encourage their honest opinions. I’m always amazed at how my middle school students would think through these issues. <br />
<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/GREAT-GATSBY-PreReading-Bias-1137186" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Great Gatsby learners will enjoy this prereading activity that gets thinking about and discussing (and maybe even engaging in some friendly arguing!). Then after the novel is done, learners will revisit these questions to consider how their minds have stayed the same or changed based on the events, characters, and themes they've just read about and felt. " border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgUetPNtpiq8uti5iuMKAbYTHqEhIIHq4344OMWUHcT2RFBkEmCzhdW_bab247S6frBXtc79l77vzhG7eILMzb_Ilo9tRHU6qTs_7I3oQNbotVtfyF2PQfyXB-fr0SSt96BFwdbs5bYoXH/s200/052+-+GREATGATSBYPreReadingBias.png" title="The Great Gatsby learners will enjoy this prereading activity that gets thinking about and discussing (and maybe even engaging in some friendly arguing!). Then after the novel is done, learners will revisit these questions to consider how their minds have stayed the same or changed based on the events, characters, and themes they've just read about and felt. " width="154" /></a> And allow an organized argument. Let people from each side share their thoughts. Then ask for people who disagree. The more conflict the better.<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/GREAT-GATSBY-PreReading-Bias-1137186"> </a> This usually takes <b>a solid 45 minute class period</b> for my students. And they’re still discussing things on their way out of class.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRkvf_odXz2sYM91nr_bTFHzaDVTl6GtsyF9nmgV27_Jqre8Yw9io_rY2FqSthp0tB4aJLeqhoGEYa1NlmCOZm2KfkjUi2qGhMGRwryVXXLJtFqiGOnMXWA5X82VWCIwA5CfNPp3WVJAyP/s1600/052+-+GREATGATSBYPreReadingBias.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a> As you work through the story, these topics will come up and you can reference the discussion from this day.<br />
Then after you finish reading the novel, revisit these topics and see how their opinions have changed. They will be surprised at how the story has influenced and informed their beliefs. It’s pretty powerful.<br />
So a quick recap: to hook students into a novel, <b>(1) stir up conflict, (2) engage their prior knowledge, and (3) foreshadow the big themes that will come up</b>. Any activity you do that does all 3 of these is bound to hook them from the start. <b>Conversation of the Day</b>: What activities do you love doing to hook students at the start of a novel study?<br />
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Jonathan Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06948573981422234209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4155825625118290982.post-32090710135435555152016-08-20T06:48:00.002-04:002017-08-26T15:15:35.455-04:00Teaching Onomatopoeias - How to Not Kerplunk the Topic (Episode 51)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today, we’re gonna show some practical ways to teach <b>onomatopoeias </b>… so you don't kerplunk the topic!<br />
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<b> </b> So today's topic: <b>Onomatopoeias</b>! A simple kind of figurative language that can be so much fun to engage students with. <br />
<b> </b> But like with any topic, if we're not thoughtful about our approach, we can kill it and make it boring. <br />
<b> </b> Onomatopoeias, besides being the hardest figurative language to spell … They are any word we invent to communicate how to spell a sound. We have hundreds of them and use them all the time.<br />
<b> </b> I doubt any of us have any problem with our kids learning this topic. The question is: how do we make it more fun?! And this one is easy.<br />
<b><a href="http://teaching-onomatopoeias-how-to-not/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt=" Teaching Onomatopoeias - How to Not Kerplunk the Topic (Episode 51)" border="0" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0uTP18jyrhK0A7A8YKrhq-mp7XwAAjCQSMs86b4TFqrJUKuVBfeVaOtFHn5EkA_hMIui8UDDAU5OExC6-eAfVOW0hP8a3lJ3isEzN9VCLknJ7wYGByjb_wWQlcZfj9_fYX45ImB2Ds3eK/s200/051---Batman-Boom.png" title="Teaching Onomatopoeias - How to Not Kerplunk the Topic (Episode 51)" width="200" /></a> </b> It's one of the 5 senses: Sound. And sounds are interesting … Anything sensory is interesting. <br />
<b> </b> So use this to your advantage! Start with the easy ones for them: <i>Boom</i>! <i>Smack</i>! <i>Thump</i>! And here's the key … Actually make the sound on different things in the room. <br />
<b> </b> And then have the kids make the sounds. They love this! This is gonna be a loud lesson, and don't let that scare you.<br />
<b> </b> Have a couple of containers of water filled with different levels. Drop some marbles in them and have the students write out the sound each one makes. <i>Splunk</i>! <i>Plink</i>! <i>Kerplunk</i>! <i>Sploop</i>! <br />
<b> </b> Then maybe let the students pick some things they want to drop in. Record the sounds.<br />
<b> </b> Let the class pick some objects that you're gonna smack the desk with. Record the spelling of the sounds. <br />
<b> </b> Then keep going. Split them into groups and have them brainstorm as many sounds that aren't connected with smacking things or dropping into water. Give them 30 seconds for a practice round. Let them share the results. Then give them a longer couple of minutes and see what they come up with. Encourage them to make the noises to discover.<br />
<b> </b> You'll love what they come up with, and they'll have so much fun. My favorite is <i>plblbplbblblplb</i>!!! I tell the class it's my favorite and write it on the board. They always look at me confused and ask what the heck that is. Then I stick my tongue out at them and blow to make the sound. They laugh. They love this stuff!<br />
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<b> </b> And it may seem contradictory, but fun lessons like this actually help with classroom management. It's why the old Batman series was great. And it's a great activity to do when you're being observed by your admin or on Parent Visitation Day.<br />
<b> </b> We’ve created an activity that you subscribers can get in our teaching store. It's free for this week because you're amazing, so go grab it! (Link in the description.)<br />
<b>Conversation of the Day</b>: Think up an onomatopoeia and spell it out down in the comments. Leave a short explanation if you need to.<br />
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Even the most expert teacher has difficult moments trying to <b>communicate effectively</b> with students. We long for peaceful moments during our day an in our class, but sometimes it feels so impossible and far away. Today, we're going to walk through the <b>13 Secrets for Effective Communication in the Classroom.</b> We're super grateful for <a href="https://squareup.com/market/change-your-life-r--inc/item/seriously-dating-or-engaged-workbook">Roger and Becky Tirabassi's Rules for Effective Communication</a> that we've adapted to the teaching world. They totally shine a light on some simple but powerful tools. So here we go!<br />
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We won’t ever use the words “NEVER” or “ALWAYS.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://createdforlearning.blogspot.com/2016/07/peaceful-class-13-secrets-effective-communication.html" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a> <b> </b> </span></b>Whatever the situation or the emotional temperature of the classroom, here’s the nugget . . . when we use absolutes, we put our students on the defensive, and *BOOM* we’re no longer on the same team. </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> They stop listening to what we’re frustrated about </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">immediately</span></span>. Instead, they focus on the ONE TIME they turned in their homework on time or the ONE TIME they listened to your teaching and raised their hand to ask a good question or THAT TIME LAST WEEK when they shot a paper wad at the trash can, missed, but still responsibly snatched it up and slam-dunked it. When we use “always” or “never,” we unintentionally sabotage our message by distracting them from the real issue. </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(<a href="http://createdforlearning.blogspot.com/2014/08/13-rules-for-effective-communication-1.html">Read </a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><a href="http://createdforlearning.blogspot.com/2014/08/13-rules-for-effective-communication-1.html">the more detailed blog post.</a>)</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b> </b> </span></b></span></b></span></b>We’ve all been called hurtful names. Many of us even had teachers or parents who called us names or made us feel small. And if that adult repeated that name enough or said it at just the right vulnerable moment, chances are pretty good we remember the very instant the words were said to us.<br />Call a girl “shy” enough, and she just might become it. Command a boy to “stop being such a baby,” and he might stuff his emotions deep inside. Tell a teenage girl she’s getting a little chubby tummy, and an eating disorder might result. Tell that boy in P.E. to stop throwing like a girl, and we’ve disrespected both the boy and ALL the girls.</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(<a href="http://createdforlearning.blogspot.com/2014/08/13-rules-for-effective-communication-in_8.html">Read </a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><a href="http://createdforlearning.blogspot.com/2014/08/13-rules-for-effective-communication-in_8.html">the more detailed blog post.</a>)</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaxaN5xSI1_DinG1OqqJBAAxp2G1mbZGVzvgCGjsze7UcWgQPqnp6QLgZ2-5UDZB9F1uiAkhWXbdA5xXkKPGhzgp8mWrsVC4TZY6vxOyOzVn46quvVOUddnV3UvzzUdHzzx_ogRyeq9cJj/s1600/13+Secrets+-+7.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaxaN5xSI1_DinG1OqqJBAAxp2G1mbZGVzvgCGjsze7UcWgQPqnp6QLgZ2-5UDZB9F1uiAkhWXbdA5xXkKPGhzgp8mWrsVC4TZY6vxOyOzVn46quvVOUddnV3UvzzUdHzzx_ogRyeq9cJj/s200/13+Secrets+-+7.png" width="200" /></a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b> </b> </span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b>7.
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b> </b> </span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></span></span></span>We are the adults. We’re supposed to be the mature ones in the relationship. If we expect our students to have obedient hearts and actions and keep their patient composure, then we’d better set the example. Like most things in life, they learn how to be patient or lose control from us. And maybe you remember that teacher that it was kinda funny to watch lose their patience? I wonder how many times I have moments as that teacher…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(<a href="http://createdforlearning.blogspot.com/2014/08/13-rules-for-effective-communication-in_14.html">Read </a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><a href="http://createdforlearning.blogspot.com/2014/08/13-rules-for-effective-communication-in_14.html">the more detailed blog post.</a>)</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b> </b> </span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b>8.
We won’t make demands.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b> </b> </span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">No matter how bad their behavior may get, though, their disobedience (or slow obedience) does not give us permission to get impatient and break these rules. Remember, our goal is to “not provoke our students to anger,” and our demands invoke anger. So we must ask. And ask again.</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(<a href="http://createdforlearning.blogspot.com/2014/08/13-rules-for-effective-communication-in_16.html">Read </a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><a href="http://createdforlearning.blogspot.com/2014/08/13-rules-for-effective-communication-in_16.html">the more detailed blog post</a>.)</span></span></b><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b> </b> </span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b>9.
We won’t use threats.</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b> </b> </span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></span>When we aren’t careful, it’s not hard for our demands to morph into threats. Just stick an “If” at the beginning and a “then” in the middle, or a “You’d better” at the start and an “or else” at the end, and we just switched from demanding to threatening. We might not want to call them threats or think about how our words might be angering our students. We just want to keep things under control. We want control. But we need to be aware of our threats because our students’ feelings are real and we made them feel them.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(<a href="http://createdforlearning.blogspot.com/2014/08/13-rules-for-effective-communication-in_17.html">Read </a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><a href="http://createdforlearning.blogspot.com/2014/08/13-rules-for-effective-communication-in_17.html">the more detailed blog post.</a>)</span></span></b><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b> </b> </span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b>10.
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b> </b> </span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></span>Anger is a secondary emotion. It proceeds from other primary emotions like hurt, irritation, frustration, insecurity, abandonment, rejection, fear, or uncoolity (made that word up). To communicate well with our students, we should never tell them we’re angry, because that isn’t accurate. We are something else. For this to be effective, we’re going to need to teach our students what certain words mean. Cue Emotional Vocabulary lesson. What is frustrated? Disappointed? Disrespected? Scared? Sad? Ignored? Impatient? Any of the emotions their actions frequently stir up in you. Once we’ve frontloaded things by teaching these words, then when we’re in the moment, we have a common language.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(<a href="http://createdforlearning.blogspot.com/2014/08/13-rules-for-effective-communication-in_17.html">Read </a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><a href="http://createdforlearning.blogspot.com/2014/08/13-rules-for-effective-communication-in_17.html">the more detailed blog post.</a>)</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Today, we're going to walk through the last of the <b>13 Secrets for Effective Communication in the Classroom</b> #13 - <b>We won’t make stuff up (a.k.a. When Teachers Lie)</b>.<br />
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<b> </b> This one is super tempting. You’re the boss. You know what’s best for your kids. You know what’s dangerous or foolish. You have the combined wisdom of your family tree, your friends, the adults around you, your church family, and your spouse. But this does not mean you get to just make up rules because it would be easier for you.<br />
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As parents, you do have the authority, but you must rule with a gentle and wise firmness that does not “provoke your children to anger.” So your rules have to make sense. You have to explain them. This is a good thing. I know many of us might be afraid to let our children see the man behind the curtain (Remember, the Great Wizard of Oz)! We’re hesitant to explain the rules because it’s hard. It takes work. And some of us are fearful that the more we explain to our kids, the more we’ll learn our rules aren’t fair. Our eight-year-old might even point it out to us.<br />
An example: The other day, some kids were playing out on the shared lawn between our apartments. They had a pretty cool blow-up water slide. Kids were climbing up and sliding down and spraying each other with the water hose and having a blast. One of the kids was leaning slightly on an inflatable wall — no big deal — but the parent didn’t like it. It wasn’t unsafe or going to damage the slide. It just wasn’t “the way it’s supposed to be.” The parent didn’t want to get up from their lawn chair and didn’t want to explain themselves, so they told the kid to get off the wall because they didn’t want someone to get hurt. No one was going to get hurt, and this parent knew it. They also knew that they were the boss and playing the “Someone’s Going to Get Hurt” card is supposed to end the discussion. So they played it.<br />
Another example: We knew some parents who wanted to wean their child off of pacifiers. So they cut the tips off all the pacifiers and told their kid, “Sorry, look, all the pacifiers are broken,” and broke the habit cold turkey. They were well-intentioned, I’m sure, but this is one of those parental lies. They didn’t want to do the hard work of talking with their child, so they made stuff up. A contrasting example: When we were ready to transition our girl off pacifiers, we prepped her for it. We talked with her, explained that she was a big girl now and big girls don’t use pacifiers. Then we celebrated her Big Girl Day, let her get dolled up in her favorite dress, bought her a small bouquet of flowers, and made a big deal of her Rite of Passage.<br />
Did your parents ever play those cards on you? Couldn’t you see right through it? Didn’t anger begin to brew inside you? Especially as you got older. <br />
I can’t think of a single instance when it’s better to feed them small lies because it’s easier for us. How much better to talk about these things when they’re younger. Even when they’re squirrely. Even when it’s tough. Even when it seems they aren’t listening. Even when we don’t have time. Even when we’re tired. Especially when we don’t want to. Because that is likely when they need us to talk things out the most.<br />
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What teacher lie is most tempting for you to tell students?<br />
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