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This week I began thinking about complex problems, or problems with multiple layers that occur in my classroom.  Currently, students struggle with getting excited about writing lab reports.  While all students find the labs fun and exciting, they often dread the required lab write-up that follows.  My goal this year, is to make science excitingContinue reading “Writing Lab Reports with Technology”

Yesterday, I had a conversation with a student that left me in awe.  This young lady was telling me about her weekend.  Her mom, whom she hadn’t seen in a year, came and visited her.  Her mom recently went deaf.  However, she told me about how rewarding it was to see her mom and howContinue reading “A New Perspective”

My 8th graders just finished up their unit on minerals and they had a blast!  I decided to stray away from the book and have them discover on their own. My students started off previewing the text and defining the different properties of minerals.  Next, students chose a mineral of their choice and researched theContinue reading “Minerals, Minerals, and more Minerals”

As the mid-year draws nearer, I have been trying to get my students prepared for their midterm in the funnest way possible.  I know by the time students get to me (5th and 6th hours) they are tired of the answering questions on worksheets and then going over the answers for they review.  Before break,Continue reading “Reviewing with Comics”

Students often focus on their grades rather than what they are learning.  They come to the classroom scared to “fail” or answer a question incorrectly in front of their peers, or getting a bad grade.  The New Media Consortium (2013) has established “failure as learning mode” as a Wicked Problem or a problem that isContinue reading “Wicked Problem – Failure as Learning Mode”

As the technology age grows and children learn how to use tablets and SmartPhones at young ages, I was curious as to how teachers handle these situations.  This week, I surveyed a middle school about their take on technology in the classroom.  I asked teachers if they implement technology, types of websites they have foundContinue reading “Technology in the Classroom Survey”

Being a second year teacher, I am still learning how to best teach different students.  This year, I have many students that are on the Autism spectrum.  Learning to deal with the characteristics of these students and figuring out how to keep them engaged has been tough.  This week, I decided to research the backgroundContinue reading “Autism and Technology”

This week I began thinking about complex problems, or problems with multiple layers that occur in my classroom.  Currently, students struggle with getting excited about writing lab reports.  While all students find the labs fun and exciting, they often dread the required lab write-up that follows.  My goal this year, is to make science excitingContinue reading “Writing Labs with Technology”

This week, I focused my studies on Universal Design for Learning or UDL. In schools, “individual variability is the norm” (CAST p. 4) and teaching to the “average” does not meet this variability. This “one size fits all” fails to “provide all individuals with fair and equal opportunities to learn by excluding learners with differentContinue reading “Recreating Raspberry Pi Lesson with UDL”