Teacher Becomes Student for a Day

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First of all I hope every educator takes the time to read this article, better yet do what this teacher did and shadow a student for a day! The full text can be found at the link provided above, however these are the 3 takeaways the teacher describes:

• Students sit all day, and sitting is exhausting
• Students are sitting, and passively engaged for 90% of the day
• Students feel like a nuisance

In the full article this educator details how she will address these takeaways and offers tangible ideas for all teachers transferable across content areas. For the student perspective pick up Fires in the Middle School Bathroom, pictured below.

 

 

 

 



Trauma and the Teenage Brain

                         

                                                   

"As researchers work to solve one of the most persistent problems in public education – why kids in poor neighborhoods fail so much more often than their upper-income peers – more and more they're pointing the finger at what happens outside the classroom.
Shootings. Food insecurity. Sirens and fights in the night. Experts are finding that those stressors build up, creating emotional problems and changes in the brain that can undermine even the clearest lessons."

Link to Full Article
Ted Talk on Trauma and Health

Introducing New Vocabulary

After introducing new vocabulary have students spin the wheel to identify their action step, each option will promote retention and support a different learning style. Easily turned into a game for review prior to assessment.

Resource- Noise Meter

Help students become more objective about the noise level in the classroom with a noise metering app. The particular app shown below is $0.99 however there are many other free options, some with the ability to save measurements in order to evaluate progress over time... Is it noisy in here?

 

Blooms- Resources and Action Words