Well, tomorrow is the twenty-four hr menses when the Oklahoma State Department of Education finally announces the 2018 OK Teacher of the Year. I'll live honest. I'm nervous. Mostly nearly the speech communication I select to give - non whether I win or not. I decided months agone that this entire procedure is inward God's hands. He has a beautiful as well as perfect innovation for my life. Part of that innovation has involved getting to live a finalist for Teacher of the Year which has come upward alongside some pretty prissy perks. As a commencement twelvemonth teacher, I laid a long-term destination that I would ane twenty-four hr menses live Oklahoma Teacher of the Year. So, yes, I'd live honored to win. But, I volition also state that the thought of leaving my classroom for a twelvemonth to tour the nation has me worried. For equally long equally I tin remember, I select wanted to live a teacher. Now that I'm inward my 6th twelvemonth inward the classroom, I can't imagine myself doing anything else.
Tomorrow volition select ane of ii outcomes. I volition either hear my cite announced equally Oklahoma's Teacher of the Year, or I volition hear soul else's cite announced. Either way, I'm going to see myself a winner. To win as well as select a jeopardy to inspire teachers across the nation during the 2018-2019 schoolhouse twelvemonth volition live an honor. To acquire a jeopardy to learn algebra to students for the 2018-2019 schoolhouse twelvemonth as well as popular off on doing what I dearest volition live an honor. No thing the outcome, I can't lose!
Now, to acquire my hear off this speech communication I necessitate to give tomorrow, I introduce to y'all this week's Mon Must Reads!
Here are this week's inspiring tweets!
Tony Donaldson shares a photograph of what a mole of unlike chemicals looks like. Last year, my physical scientific discipline students actually struggled to roll their minds around the mole concept. This year, I'm didactics chemistry, as well as so it is fifty-fifty to a greater extent than crucial that my students empathize this tricky concept. I promise that letting them visually run across a mole of something volition help!
Hayley created a mini maths substitution fob toolkit for the teachers at her school. I'd dearest to exercise this thought for do structures. Then, I could simply flip through the cards when I'm looking for an thought when lesson planning! Hayley has posted the file to download on TES for gratis
here.
I'm ever on the lookout adult man for novel ideas for foldables.
Mr. Fredericks shares a new-to-me foldable type inward this post. Love the emphasis on definitions AND what each vocab discussion looks like!
Mrs. Mongelli's tweet caught my oculus non because of what she was tweeting nearly but because of the posters inward the background! I desire to emphasize the importance of prefixes/suffixes/root words alongside my chemical scientific discipline students. I may simply select to set upward some to a greater extent than posters to help! :)
Randy L. Revels, Jr. shares a creative thought to acquire kids thinking inward class. Using the top of your desk equally a dry out erase board, write equally many things equally y'all tin mean value of nearly a for sure topic. This thought won't piece of work alongside the textured tables inward my room, but I'm saving it hither to maintain it inward hear for the future!
Are y'all doing
#Teach180 or a 180 blog?
Ben Wildeboer has created a calendar that lets y'all easily figure out the give away of the twenty-four hr menses of schoolhouse that corresponds to each date. My favorite thing is how customizable it is!
Rick Barlow late tweeted nearly an intriguing means to acquire students to purchase into grouping work. He invited students to give world shout-outs to other students who took risks inward occupation solving. How awesome is that?!?
Jake Valtierra is an assistant master copy who shares ideas from classroom teachers. I dearest the thought of "Pin the Tail on the Number Diagram!"
Katie Shonk combines iii awesome things (SMARTBoards, Venn Diagrams, as well as Post-It Notes) to brand something fifty-fifty to a greater extent than awesome!
Tenille Cauley shares a new-to-me activity to give students do working together inward a group. The challenge: write a message without touching the marker!
Mrs. Schneider had her students hit beautiful pinwheels alongside facts nearly themselves on the other side. This would brand beautiful classroom decor!
Megan Tuttle poses an awesome puzzle to her students. It's similar a clothesline activity without the clothesline. What does 1000 equal? What social club should the cards become in?
Gina Stukenholtz has her students consummate an enthusiasm as well as learning nautical chart to acquire feedback from her students. LOVE this idea!
Madi Roberts shares an awesome dry out erase template she created. I also mean value this would brand for an awesome foldable for interactive notebooks!
Elissa Miller inspires alongside an awesome geometry lesson that involves pipage cleaners as well as fuzzy pom poms! I also dearest the carte du jour variety for Algebra 1!
Ashley Brown shares a new-to-me thought for information collection: lucky numbers from fortune cookies! I dearest combining nutrient alongside information collection inward the classroom!
Beverly Schroth brings chemical scientific discipline to life past times having students human activity out what happens to the accuse as well as majority of an atom when electrons or neutrons are added or subtracted.
Daniel Carlson flora a quick means to acquire useful pupil feedback. I dearest the inquiry nearly Desmos! And, for the record, I mean value it's impossible to exercise Desmos also much!
Megan Joy combined ane of my favorite do structures, ii truths as well as a lie, alongside technology scientific discipline inward an awesome way!
Stephanie Goldberg uses a unproblematic business office supply, a plastic canvas protector, to hit a genius demonstration of the associative property.
here. She has also shared a version of the same activity that doesn't involve whatsoever cutting as well as gluing. I've already printed it as well as set it inward my unit of measurement binder for relations as well as functions!
I don't learn biology, but I select to give a shout-out to
Jen Winne for her creative exercise of puddle noodles inward didactics science!
Julie Morgan shares a poster she created for her classroom to recognize ane pupil each calendar week based on their Numeracy Ninjas performance. LOVE this idea. I also dearest that the sign is laminated as well as so it tin live easily reused each week!
Sarah Dimaria's students are performing a yummy stats experiment: are double stuffed oreos actually double stuffed?
Michelle Bailey created an awesome travel past times as well as crimp activity to acquire her students practicing the concept of complementary angles inward geometry.
Kaytlin Black engages her students inward reviewing the scientific method past times analyzing pollex wars. How fun!
Michelle Vanhala shocks her chemical scientific discipline students past times eating a candle. I've wanted to effort this activity alongside students ever since I read nearly it in conclusion year. Thanks Michelle for the reminder. I'm definitely doing this alongside my chemical scientific discipline degree soon!
Joel Bezaire wins the coolest instructor accolade for didactics his students how to hit an enigma machine from a soda can!
Math past times the Mountain has been producing some awesome current charts lately! Check out this ane for classifying existent numbers.
Mr. Cooke shares an awesome wall display featuring a Pythagorean Tree!
Until side past times side week, maintain upward the awesome tweets as well as weblog posts!
