Do either "flipping" or CBL have a future in your teaching practice? Why or why not?
Teaching after COVID!!! I am looking forward to the moment where I can stand at the front of my classroom door and welcome ALL of my students into the room. I am not only excited for that moment, but I am also excited for the new teaching moments I can add to my in-person teaching. Prior to the pandemic, for about five years our school has made the commitment not to assign homework. This decision was after as a staff we read Hattie's book Visible Learning The teachers talked about the lack of positive data for children in elementary school to have homework. The concept of no homework was hard for teachers, students and the parents! The conversations and discussions around the lack of benefits of assigning homework was a struggle. Eventually, it became part of our practice at our school site. Then, the parents saw the benefit of not having to struggle with homework and the pleasure of having extra family time. Parents, students, and teachers were all in favor of not having homework fo our elementary school. Then the pandemic. I saw the benefits of prerecording myself doing online reading instruction during the student's asychronous time and then having us work on the content of the lesson during synchronous work. The content and feedbacck I was received from the students was tremendous! The students were more engaged with my lessons after watching my recordings of the lessons. When I asked students to respond, almost all of the students had something to say about the readings. For me, this is going to be a new standard for me when we go back to post COVID teaching. I will start off slow with maybe one lesson a week and see how we go from there. I know I have expressed it before, but I can wait to use all the teaching skills I learning in the time of COVID to my daily teaching.
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The Power of Yet I have been using the power of yet for about two years. I really have found how powerful the word yet is for second graders. This is a great sesame street video of the power of yet with the singer Janelle Monae. The kids love hearing this song and it is quite catchy. I always do this lesson of the power of yet at the beginning of the year or anytime my students are struggling with a new concept. The power of yet helped when we were having issues with Seesaw acitivies that students were not attempting to master. Additionally, it did help when I taught the lesson of the learning pit. Before introducing the concept of the learning pit; I show a youtube video. A wonderful video that I used was of a baby learning to walk called stages of learning to walk: My students love to watch the video of the baby learning to walk. The students enjoy the video because it reminds them that they were once babies learning to walk. When I remind them that when you are learning to walk, you don't just get up and start running. It takes time and lots of practice. Then when I relate that concept of time and learning to new technology skills they are acquiring; I do see the light bulb go on in their minds. The power of yet and the learning pit are fun lessons I love to teach to my students.
Just like my students, I connect via visuals. I found the above image on www.intellspot.com/qualitative-vs-quantitative-data/ . This website is a website for blogs for data-driven business. For my research question: What is the impact of digital tools on second grade students proficiency in English Language Arts? Through the assignments in Seesaw, I will illustrate that the assignments will assist my students in the STAR online testing for English Language Arts. The last round of STAR assessment provided the following data for my students: This quantitave data allows me to design Seesaw assignments that connect the second grade standards. Additonally, I will design lessons that the students enjoy; I find if the students like the Seesaw assignments; they will absorb the content. This will be a Google form in a qualitative data format. I am excited about the research as I think it will show my students are accessing transfer of knowledge is Seesaw to the proficiency in their Star assessment.
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