Differentiation in a classroom is the most powerful thing a teacher can do for students. When new textbooks are adopted, one can usually find a “differentiation section” in which the series explains how to adapt curriculum to the students in your classroom. While this can be helpful, to get the best results, a teacher has … Continue reading
“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.” – Margaret Thatcher Most assignments I hand to my students, and with out much guidance, they complete. It does not matter … Continue reading
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding” – Leonardo de Vinci I graduated from college during the teacher hiring freeze. After telling my mom I would live off of water and sunshine in Charleston, I bravely moved to the city that every girl wants to live in during their twenties. For a while I … Continue reading
My school often hosts tour groups to observe our integration of 1:1 iPads. Many times, this tour group stops by my room. It is always interesting to me how different tour groups behave. Sometimes, they talk to students at stations, sometimes they come up and talk to me, and other times they observe. Some want … Continue reading
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin Teachers are given the very unique opportunity to mold tomorrow. I started teaching because I wanted to make a difference, help people find a passion for life, and impact the future of our country. That in turn, requires me and other educators with these … Continue reading
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Required. Must Do. “Hoop Jumping”. I am usually very adverse to situations when paperwork is involved. I am not good at setting up and connecting any type of service in my home (including AT&T). Talking to people on the phone for … Continue reading
“It is significant to realize that the most creative environments in our society are not the ever changing ones. The artist’s studio, the researcher’s laboratory, the scholar’s library are each deliberately kept simple so as to support the complexities of the work-in-progress. They are deliberately kept predictable so the unpredictable can happen” — Lucy Calkins, Lessons … Continue reading
“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” – Edmund Burke I liked Glee before it was cool. I really enjoy music and the way they integrated two songs into one and created a “mash up” of a song overjoyed me. Did you have the original Glee Soundtrack? Because I did! Two weeks ago, I … Continue reading
“There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes” – Pablo Picasso Some days my kids absolutely amaze me, and I mean absolutely A-MAAAZE me. While in the middle of our realistic fiction book clubs, my students started on a plot project using their iPads. One … Continue reading
“Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much” – Helen Keller When I was a junior in college, I took an Introduction to Technology in the Classroom course. The Smartboard was the new, hip gadget and you were praying you were lucky enough to get a classroom equipped with this new … Continue reading
Purpose Driven Teaching 