Just follow what I did. Just write your name in the columns for what dates work.
Thanks to Jbizz for this!
Just throwing some dates out.
Just need one day to work for everyone — which will be hard.
I’m a little unclear as to what you’re asking. What subject or level are you working in? My lessons flow well because I know my time—often even using a timer projected on the board for kids to see and know when to wrap up a task to move on to the next.
I also am unsure what you mean by “debriefing.” Are you wanting students involved in actually answering the questions? You could have them make up their own questions and pose them to the class—like a Socratic seminar.
Hope that helps,
GWALP
Our school gives each student a complimentary planner. Step one: write down assignments in it. One way teachers can help with this is by clearly having tasks or assignments already written on the board.
Now that we’re in a digital age, phones have been amazing. Spend a day with students where everyone has their phones out. Most phones have a calendar option where students can not only plug in assignments, but set alarms to remind themselves.
My freshmen have iPads, and I’ll give small 2-3 paragraph assignments due at 11 p.m. on an online portal, MyBigCampus, sometimes. I had three kids who constantly forgot to do them, thus missing the portal’s opening. I showed them how to set the calendar alarm for shortly after school to remind them to get online and do the writing assignment! They loved it.
I also recommend very simple, classic organization skills. I encourage kids to have one accordion folder. With 5 pockets, it will hold their core classes’ materials, and then everything is in one place. Then, that’s fewer folders to keep track of. For the same reason, I like multi-subject notebooks.
Some kids like color coding, so could try a red notebook and folder for math, green for English, etc.
As a teacher, you can make deadlines and expectations very, very clear. Write daily tasks on the board. Make a long-term calendar so they can plan ahead. When I do a research paper, which can take 4 weeks, my students get a sheet that lists what progress check is due on what day.
Make an assignment page that clearly outlines the objective, potential steps taken, and how they will be graded.
Hope this all helps!
—GWALP
Anyone? GWALP isn’t familiar with it.
GWALP responds:
Tumblr recently added 5 new editors, 4 of whom are actively promoting. One person made an editor hasn’t been an active tumblr blogger in nine months.
So, with 4 more editors adding to the tastes of world-shaker, PPT, ramny and myself (ohmuffins has been unjustly removed as an editor without reason given), there is now going to be much more variety on the tag. 8 editors means 80 posts a day can be promoted.
But really, this is what we wanted. #education was pulling more traffic than other tags with two or three more editors. More editors means more content is promoted and more tumblr bloggers can receive exposure.
But taken from the “tone” I am inferring from this Anon question, you must not like what you’re seeing on the promoted tag. What would you like to see promoted?
When a Teacher Dare Day is announced from this blog:
Please tag your posts as “teacher dare day”.
You do not need to be a teacher to participate.
The purpose is to help the education community get to know each other, as well as provide opportunities to learn from each other.
*Side note: Some people (especially me, positivelypersistentteach) do not always get all ask messages. You are encouraged to use Fan Mail instead.
Time to show the new to Tumblr people what this community can do 
Please e-mail your book suggestions to positivelypt at gmail dot com
If you reblog or reply with a suggestion or put them in an ask message, it is likely I will miss them.
The suggestions must be education-related (stories, lesson ideas, history, etc.) and not grade or content-specific. Ie: not “How To Teach Biochemistry to 12th Graders in Gifted Programs”
I will take all of the suggestions e-mailed to me, and put them in a google doc for voting. Then we will vote again on the top 2 or 3 selections (depending on how close it is).
If you’re curious as to how it worked last time, you can view some of the discussions from last summer here.
#Education. Man, I love you. I love to teach. I love to read about other people’s teaching. I love to get new ideas. I love to hear success, failures, and lessons learned. Heck, I love to share them (amongst every other thing in my life).
I’m going to be honest.
When something I post gets promoted in the #Education tag, I feel a sense of joy, accomplishment, and happiness. I know that I have just contributed something that is worthy of others to see. (maybe you feel this way, maybe you don’t, maybe I’m a dork…I’m probably a dork). When something is promoted in the #Education tag that isn’t necessarily groundbreaking, moving, inspiring, or passing on some amazeballs knowledge, then I’m all like “seriously?! Like, fo real?”.
I’ll give you an example… Say you had some Cheetos for lunch. And, let’s be real, Cheetos are pretty freakin’ awesome and you were really freakin’ hungry. So, you ripped open that bag and enjoyed the heck out of those deliciously crunchy cheesy things. But, while you were enjoying your Cheetos, you took pictures…of the Cheetos themselves, your cheesy fingers, licking the cheese off your fingers, and then finally the empty bag. You were so high off of your Cheetos that you put a lovely photoset together followed by words that could easily make people think Cheetos were the second coming and could cure ALL the diseases in the world.
Then you get the idea to share it on Tumblr and add the #Food tag.
Really? #Food tag? Is it really food? Did you make those Cheetos? Did you serve them with a side of beet relish or lamb chops? Did they save your life? Did they inspire you? Were those pictures that great of quality or were there 2001 camera phone quality?
Let’s be honest…those Cheetos and the romance novel that accompanied it did not deserve a promotion (unless you crunch up the Cheetos and covered chicken breast in them, then maybe).
That’s what I’m saying about #Education. We have new editors (which I am glad to have!), but now the content is changing (mostly for good, some questionable). Some promotion looks as if it is self-serving.
So, #Education, what kind of posts do you want to see promoted?
I am reblogging this to Team Teachers because I feel like it is a matter that affects the entire #education community.
Team Teachers: Summer Book Club?:
I will happily host another summer book club this summer if there at least 10 people that commit to buy or borrow the book and participate. I’d also be looking for someone interested in splitting the duties of coming up with discussion questions with me.
Please let me know what you think…
I think this is a great idea – I’d love to do it! I don’t feel like I know as many of the educators on Tumblr as well as I should and this would be a great opportunity to get to know them AND spend the summer doing my favorite thing – reading!
Just to be clear, the book club would be on an education related book (stories). I don’t know if that was obvious to the people who weren’t here during last year’s summer book club.
