Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Day 25: Add to my Toolbelt

Hilde and I were talking about things I want to bring to my classroom and we had some pretty good ideas.

1. Parent Communication
I want to call 2 or 3 parents every weekend and tell them something good their student did that week. I got this idea from my first cooperating teacher and it seems like such a fabulous idea that I had to add it to my toolbelt.

2. Student Best Work
Save the student's best work to show off at parent teacher conferences. Hilde said a week before the conferences she goes through all of the work with the student and they pick their best work for each of the subject areas. My idea was to have a best work folder, the students pick their best work from each subject area that week and put it in. Then right before conferences they go through all of their "best work" and pick their favorites from those. Then there is not an entire semester's worth of assignments in there but the student is not sad about having thrown something away a long time ago.

3. Parent Teacher Conferences
I want to have student lead conferences, not matter what grade I am in. But I am not sure how I am going to do that if I am in a younger grader.

4. Brag Board
Have a board where students can brag about something nice their friends did. This board would need to have correct spelling and punctuation, but we would have 5 minutes after lunch to fill it out each day.

5. Spot the Mistake
Have a spot the mistake board where I find articles or books that have mistakes and early finishers get to go and try and find the mistakes.

6. Early Finishers
I would like to have a file of early finishers work. They can go over to this file when they are done, pick the subject we are doing and then do the activity. This could be something as simple as a worksheet or even a project that spans over a few days. Whatever it is, many students may want to participate it and so will work to finish their work.

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