COVID19 isn’t the only illness😷 stiflingly 🙅🏽the gateway to full access learning, but there’s another plague 🤢that can be found in most classrooms digital 🧑🏼🏫 and traditional 🍎 alike. It is known as, “IS THIS FOR A GRADE?” disorder.TEACHERS, how many times have you been asked this question?Somewhere along the way true 💯 and actual learning has been reduced to numbers and metrics. As a result, the “IS THIS FOR A GRADE?” disorder battles to ambush 🦹 lesson plans far and wide.🌏For the love ❤️ of learning, teachers should emphasize accountability. Life will not give tangible grades 📝 for everything achieved 🏆, but every decision and action counts 🧮 towards the greater picture 🖼.Our students need to know that.In TODAY’s NEW Inclusive & Diversified Classroom Management 101 post, I provide a fun 😆and exciting🤯 way to teach accountability through role play. 🧐Check our Blog #6: Citing Evidence with Edgar Allan Poe
COVID19 has caught many public, private, and charter schools off guard with mandated distance learning. As a result, many educators have been forced to teeter in the dark as it relates to digitized instruction. Subsequently, this no longer has to be a certainty . While the future of traditional learning waivers, it is a given that technology in the classroom has proven its permanence.#Time2TechUpTeaching . Flip Your Classroom Inside-Out: Effectively Utilizing Technology in the Classroom- Professional Development for School Districts provides real solutions based on real experience by a real teacher. Check out Inclusive & Diversified Classroom Management 101: Blog #7 to learn more about what I can do for you!
Inclusive & Diversified Classroom Management 101Blog#5: Project-Based & Extended Learning: Goals in a Cereal Box
Do you have any goals? What are they? What resources and mindset do you need to achieve them? How long do you think it will take to accomplish them?Good questions right?The ability to answer these questions is what college and career readiness is all about. If a child is never expected to plan a future, they will be blindsided by the weights and woes of adulthood. They can become lost and their existence is defined by how long they can survive on the hamster wheel of life.So as advocates of education, let’s encourage our youth to set some goals and set their minds towards the mark of excellence.
When I was a young whipper-snapper, I really struggled in Math. It was not a natural, innate ability like English. When it came to ELA, I swam like a fish in water, and when it came to Math, I drowned. By high school graduation, I was not affluent enough to pass my college Algebra course the first time around. My Math deficiency came from low self-confidence, and a subtle expectation to fail. I wasn't pushed and expected to perform to standard until I went to college.*** I imagine that some of you had the same struggle with English ***The educational system preaches college and career readiness, but are WE (myself included) really pushing our students to be well-rounded across all academic genres?...Or are we stuck on the ideal that you can only be good in English or Math, but not both.I want to challenge that notion. I say, our students can excel in all academic disciplines with a whole lot of pushing and a whole lot of patience. Expecting our students to be successful is the fertilizer of college and career readiness.
Inclusive & Diversified Classroom Management 101: Blog#3: How to Get Group Work Out of the Group
...BECAUSE TEACHERS TEACH students, NOT computers...With all the buzz about college and career readiness, somewhere down the line the education system has forgotten about focusing on the art of just getting along. Technology is superb HOWEVER, the ability to communicate attributes to college and career readiness just as much.
In 2016 more than 2 million of the US population was in jail (some still there today)... Mississippi having the highest numbers in all 50 states.But the real problem does not begin when a person is arrested. The problem originates in the classroom. Yep, I said it... in the classroom.Students have been conditioned towards a mindset that, “The only way I can make a sound decision is if an authority is telling how to think and behave.” Hence, the “pipeline to prison” syndrome.Educators (including myself) have made the grave mistake of embracing unified learning-meaning every child should respond to teachings the same way at the same time.These assumptions are broken, inadvertently breeding generations that struggle to JUDGE, EVALUATE, PREDICT, and CONNECT. Unfortunately, adults that lack the spirit of self-correction end up institutionalized.Let’s break the cycle. Watch this video to see how we can teach independent learning and raise generations of problem-solvers, and critical thinkers (not programmed minions).