tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86835599770784045822024-03-05T20:38:14.071-08:00Getting Global With It!What if teachers regularly shared their best teaching day ever to a global audience?jheil65http://www.blogger.com/profile/02982980804049310784noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8683559977078404582.post-7406984705474799932017-08-09T13:28:00.001-07:002017-08-09T13:28:32.663-07:00Amanda Chamberlain Oakview Elementary<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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jheil65http://www.blogger.com/profile/02982980804049310784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8683559977078404582.post-41592876548681136872017-06-28T13:54:00.000-07:002017-06-28T13:59:24.536-07:00Katie Alvarez: Increasing Global Awareness through Mystery Skypes/Hangouts<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinyEzPg5FXdLcHQi47mevG9xyQgThK4FCdVJxRMNqVqDsfZCkup4C5XXJygFbURAXaHu2gBrGa29Uv5CfDgn_nBh7Ec_ZBRVvApjQ5mLgyj608NYY-HLjxceti6TVnK7_RgkVfXrozjQ/s1600/File_000.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="1024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinyEzPg5FXdLcHQi47mevG9xyQgThK4FCdVJxRMNqVqDsfZCkup4C5XXJygFbURAXaHu2gBrGa29Uv5CfDgn_nBh7Ec_ZBRVvApjQ5mLgyj608NYY-HLjxceti6TVnK7_RgkVfXrozjQ/s400/File_000.png" width="400" /></a>My best day from the class from this past year was watching my 4th graders participate in Mystery Skypes/Hangouts. My goal was to promote global awareness. The concept of Mystery Hangouts and Mystery Skypes has been around for a few years, so I am a bit sad that I am just jumping into the trend this year. The good news is: I did take the plunge and it has been a great swim. I can't wait to do plan more for next year. The greater thing, my kids loved loved loved it. Before I go any further on why this was my best day and what my students learned I will briefly explain how Mystery Skypes/Hangouts work...<br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "roboto";"><span style="background-color: white;">1. Global awareness increased. They loved the end times where they could ask the other class questions about what's it is like to live in their location.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "roboto";"><span style="background-color: white;">6. By answering the questions of the other class they became aware of their own state, county and town. I was surprised by what they did not know regarding where they lived. </span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8683559977078404582.post-75624893323077114922017-06-28T13:50:00.001-07:002017-06-28T13:50:03.523-07:00Student Council is the Gift that Keeps on........you can fill in the blank<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8683559977078404582.post-17504974518528044452017-04-04T21:14:00.002-07:002017-04-04T21:14:40.066-07:00Ann Sielaff<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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jheil65http://www.blogger.com/profile/02982980804049310784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8683559977078404582.post-44445947944412074852017-03-23T14:33:00.000-07:002017-03-23T14:44:10.000-07:00The Future is Near<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8683559977078404582.post-1320320637799785642017-03-23T14:21:00.001-07:002017-03-23T14:21:10.889-07:00Sarah Coleman My Best Teaching Day Ever<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8683559977078404582.post-12707720506024047012017-02-25T15:57:00.001-08:002017-02-25T16:01:34.971-08:00My best teaching day wasn't a day at all...<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8683559977078404582.post-23714369348338194112016-10-29T13:10:00.002-07:002016-10-29T13:11:53.275-07:00<b>Susie Charles</b><br />
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My best teaching day ever was last winter, during one of the worst winter storms of the year. Before our school was closed early at noon, we decided to investigate how to build structurally sound snow forts. Students researched, designed and then headed outside to build. Students also built obstacle courses for the younger kids. BEST DAY EVER.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8683559977078404582.post-31159980833916928272016-10-23T07:28:00.001-07:002016-10-23T07:28:33.418-07:00Martha Miller<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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One of my most memorable teaching moments was in a 3rd grade class teaching math. Really...math? Yes! I love math and I love those moments where my students catch the spark and learn to love number play. We were discussing large number subtraction where there are 0s in the top number. Throws kids off - every time! It is tough for them. I had a student come up with a strategy that amazed me - and I’ve used it ever since! Think about a problem like 2001 - 326. Students need some more ones to subtract from since 6 is larger than 1. Most think - “There are no tens in 2001.” This student thought - “I need a ten. There are no tens in the tens place, but I have 200 tens in this number. I’m going to take one of them away so now I have 199 tens left and I now have 11 ones to subtract the 6 from.” I stopped the whole class and we talked about the strategy and why it works. It was an incredible conversation!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8683559977078404582.post-61969609378615049072016-10-08T12:18:00.001-07:002016-10-08T13:28:37.498-07:00Expanding Their Horizons: My Wilson Girls<b>Mickey Sullivan</b><br />
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It is difficult to select just one best day of teaching. Most of the time, these experiences happen in the classroom, but sometimes the most rewarding ones fall outside of the school day, for example, running into a former student . . . However, a very memorable experience for me was taking three of my Wilson girls to a girls science event at USD one weekend several years back. It was St. Patrick's day, knowing they may have nothing green to wear, I gave theme each a sparkly broach. I also wanted to start the day off right, and took them all to breakfast at Coco's, which they had never even heard of before . . . during the event, we were separated, and I did not get to observe the marvelous experiences they were involved in. At the end of the day, on the drive home they shared stories of conducting forensics experiments, and meeting other girls in science from all over! The next week they generated hand written thank you notes to me . . . and I have since seen a few of these girls, and they are very fond of these memories. I love that I was able to get them involved in something so memorable and relevant. I only wish I could have taken more girls to this awesome event! Here is a link to the Expand Your Horizons page, very much worth the effort. Get your girls there! And, more importantly, expose your students to science! <a href="https://www.sandiego.edu/news/cas/detail.php?_focus=54605">https://www.sandiego.edu/news/cas/detail.php?_focus=54605</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8683559977078404582.post-18867587746538592832016-10-08T12:15:00.000-07:002016-10-08T12:15:10.012-07:00Brandon Maze: A painfully great Townhall Meeting<a href="https://i.imgflip.com/1055gp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://i.imgflip.com/1055gp.jpg" width="320" /></a><span id="docs-internal-guid-143a2297-a5b5-5a96-6cec-ef80eb694e18"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is hard to choose, so I will stick to my best day so far this year. I teach 11th grade History at San Marcos High School (both AP and CP). We were focusing on the build up to the Revolutionary War in my AP class and I had the students choose an historical figure from the time. Some of the choices were from the Colonies, a couple from Britain, and one or two from France, some of them were Patriots, others Loyalists. On Friday, after having done their research and made some inferences, they role played a town hall meeting discussing whether the colonies could/should declare independence and why. The discussion was absolutely great. It was my favorite day, though, because the students were also absolutely hilarious; my face literally hurt as the bell rang. </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8683559977078404582.post-28252686725780512182016-10-01T07:54:00.001-07:002016-10-01T07:54:03.172-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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