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8th grade professional development centers
Teaching Collaboration: A 21st Century Skill
Do you teach collaboration skills? This is a great resource to use before students engage in a collaborative project or activity! The activities in this resource can be used in any content area across the curriculum to teach collaboration skills. During the first month of back to school or before students engage in collaborative learning, use the activities in this resource as a springboard to help students understand your expectations during cooperative learning assignments. The activities can
Grades:
3rd - 9th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
TWIST Literary Analysis Strategy PowerPoint
T.W.I.S.T. is the perfect strategy for analyzing literature. Students will remember the acronym T.W.I.S.T. as they analyze any piece of text for tone, word choice, imagery, style, and theme. Common Core-aligned product can be used as a professional development tool for ELA teachers or a mini-lesson for students. Slides include a comprehensive explanation of T.W.I.S.T., how to apply it, examples from literature including "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Lottery," and "The Scarlet Ibis," as well as
Grades:
6th - 12th
Staff Development-Parent Literacy Night
I am the Language Arts Department head at my high school and was asked to coordinate a Parent Literacy Night there. I developed this power point presentation for the key note address of this Parent Literacy Night. I spent hours developing it and, it is a compilation of a variety of resources and it seemed to be quite effective. I think it will make your life easier if you are doing a similar event or even conducting a training encouraging parents to read to their children.
Grades:
1st - 12th, Higher Education
Goals Checklist
Track those goals! This worksheet allows students to reflect on learning and/or personal goals with the added bonus of tracking success. This worksheet can be used with educators as a professional development tool or with students for classroom use. Hint: This printable can also be used as an awards chart for classroom incentives!
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Team Building & Community Building | D- Ice Breakers get to know games | BUNDLE
Back to School Bundle! Team Building + Community Building D'Ice Breakers!Roll-a-Response with 140 Get to Know You questions & Team challengesThe activity pairs well with the Visible Thinking Routine What makes you say that? where learners prompt each other to extend and justify their answers!Get to Know You questions:include both light/fun & thoughtful promptsencourage critical thinking and communicationinclude both light/fun & thoughtful promptsinclude 18 unique roll-a-response pag
Grades:
3rd - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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50 Team Building activities: D- ICE BREAKERS games for classroom community
Team Building Tasks Dice Game! (priced at 50% for 24 hours)Teacher or student teams roll a die to discover fun (or funny!) tasks and get to know you questions. Boost SEL/ social and emotional learning connections with silly challenges and questions to answer! The more we can know each other and play together, the better we can work together throughout the year! The Roll a Response Dice Game pairs well with the Visible Thinking Routine What makes you say that? where learners prompt each other to
Grades:
4th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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Guided Math Conferences (eBook)
This professional resource provides teachers with suggestions, tips, management, and implementation methods for using effective conferencing with students within the Guided Math framework. Templates, planning tools, and other resources are provided to help teachers stay organized and effective while conferring. Buy the physical book here.
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Grades:
K - 8th, Staff
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What is a Hypothesis? - Learning about the Nature of Science
This is a freebie from a course I teach called Exploring the Nature of Science.Understanding what a hypothesis is fundamental to understanding the Nature of Science, and developing Scientific Literacy. So I hope this information will help in someway.If you download this product, I would really appreciate feedback as I am continually looking for ways to improve my courses, and feedback really helps.
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Speak Up and Feel Heard - Active Participation Forms!
Newly updated with posters that inspire and brain facts that inform communication - your students will love using these interactive feedback forms that encourage all to speak up and feel heard!
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Enthusiasm grows for lessons as learners speak up about what they know and share what they wonder about interesting parts of their lesson topics.
Students are encouraged to speak up about team progress, and share personal evidence of their best contribut
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Tips to Improve Family Relationships pdf
Building closer family bondsGetting along with adult relativesImprovingrelationshipswithyouradult childrenReclaiming your adult siblingsImproving relationships with your etended family
Grades:
4th - 10th
Teaching Science Today 2nd Edition (eBook)
Implement engaging science lessons into your classroom that will intrigue, motivate, and groom students to be scientifically literate. This second edition book digs deep into Next Generation Science Standards as well as the Common Core State Standards to support teachers to enhance their instructional approach for teaching science concepts, skills, and processes. This teacher-friendly resource incorporates multiple, ready-to-implement approaches based on solid research, making this resource idea
Grades:
K - 12th
Math Workshop- Professional Development Presentation
Math Workshop Professional Development Presentation including 10 slides and external links to additional support documents, like a chart with formative assessment ideas. This is a great resource for teaching teachers how to have Math workshop come to life in their classrooms. Customize this presentation to make it your own to fit the need's of your school.
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Building Literature Circles
Building Literature Circles
is a comprehensive book, with general information as well as an in-depth look at actual classroom experiences and teacher-tested suggestions. Section One discusses the "What, Who, When, Where, Why and How" of Literature Circles. General information about planning, training, getting started, managing the Literature Circle classroom, evaluation and grading is presented in this section of the book. Section Two reveals the anatomy of the Buck-Aydelott Model for a Literatu
Grades:
3rd - 9th
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Making Literature Circles Come Alive
Use literature circles to differentiate instruction using Novice, Developing, and Expert levels. To respond thoughtfully to top level questions, students must understand HOW to engage in high level thinking and questions.
Making Literature Circles Come Alive
lays a solid foundation and provides step-by-step plans and hands-on activities to directly teach students about high level thinking. Includes learning to recognize, develop, and classify high level questions using Bloom's Taxonomy; 12 easy-
Grades:
4th - 9th
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Build (math rotation) Bulletin Board
Attached you will find all the tiles, titles, and rotation cards for build rotations. Print and laminate for a long lasting board. Attached you will find a picture of how I structured my bulletin board. Buddy Games= games that allow the students to practice their math skillUsing manipulative= Great for practice in all math skiils. Sometimes this is just a white board and expo. Independent work= the worksheet or handout Learning numbers= I use this to spiral back to the last math topic Doing Math
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Grades:
1st - 10th
STEAM STERILIZATION: A MEDICAL, VOCATIONAL & HEALTH KNOWLEDGE ACTIVITY
This is a five page activity researching knowledge about the process of steam sterilization. It is good for a vocational knowledge background in this hospital-related procedure. Science is important in medicine. Thanks so much for visiting!
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Academic Discussion CONVERSATION Bundle! | Digital Talking Chips SETS 1 & 2
This is a bundle of both Cooperative Learning Structure Talking Chips SET 1- for all grades/ ages and SET 2 - extended thinking prompts! The conversation prompts can be used over and over to increase critical thinking with any content. Students & adults have fun with Digital Talking Chips conversations on Jamboard! The structure requires thoughtful participation in discussion, and gives choice as to which stems/ order to use. The movable Jamboard "chips" or discussion cards are valuable for
Grades:
K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Chatgpt Professional Development
This file was used as a professional development on AI to expose teachers to the basic of the use of AI in the classroom. Everything in yellow indicates a prompt given to AI followed by the response. At times, the prompts are oddly worded to expose teachers to certain AI capabilities. During the professional development session, teachers were given this file then asked to use their own work to follow the prompts in this file.
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Launching Notebooks And Writing Workshop for middle and High School PPT
This PD covers the goals and strategies in the writing workshop which allows your students to become active writers; creating their very own text. Your students will acquire writing skills, build writing fluency, and develop pride in their finished work. As you begin your writing workshop, easing into the writing process will help your students understand and execute the process successfully on their own. And launching writing workshop helps you and your students set up routines that build succ
Grades:
6th - 12th, Staff
Making Meaning
This is a ten frame powerpoint that focuses on some strategies that enhance meaning of literature studied in class.Seven strategies are explained generally.This is a good resource for the classroom teacher.
Grades:
6th - 8th
5 Original Methods to Support Textbook Reading
Are you tired of hearing sighs when its time to read the textbook in class? Your students WILL read their textbooks without complaint with these 5 original approaches to literacy supports. Regardless of the subject, from math to science to geography, each of the strategies described will allow you to engage students with a fresh approach to reading. We all know that students tire quickly of repeated exercises, which leads to apathy. By engaging your students with textbook reading strategies th
Grades:
5th - 12th, Adult Education
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JOHNNY APPLESEED CRYPTOGRAM
This cryptogram has an interesting fact about John Chapman aka Johnny Appleseed. He actually became a land baron by planting apple orchards. Thanks for visiting the House of The Three Dinosaurs.
(The staff might actually enjoy solving this one!) Use it for a fun activity during a professional development session! Have a prize for the teacher who solves it first! A bit of Americana, and fun!
Grades:
4th - 9th, Staff
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Small Group Instruction- Start Up Directions for Teachers
Planning for differentiated instruction can be overwhelming. Use the Start Up Kit for guidance with the most basic structures needed for DI in the classroom.
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Staff
Literature Circles
This is a fourteen frame power point on literature circles. It includes general information on them as well as some sample activities. Pictures enhance this product.
Grades:
6th - 9th, Staff
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