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This year Bloomz has added a "behavior" piece to their app. My team teacher and I are practicing with utilizing this tool to replace our previous system. So far, parents seem to enjoy staying informed so promptly. We've just started, but students seem more responsive because they know their behavior is getting communicated with their families.

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Assessments, Exit Tickets, Mid-Point Checks....you can use Plickers. All you need is one device (cell phone) with the Plickers App, print out scan cards, assign cards to students, and you are ready to go.

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Plickers is a free student response system. Use www.plickers.com to print off the response card and set up your class and questions. Download the Plickers app for your device to scan the Plicker cards in the classroom. iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/plickers/id701184049?mt=8 Google Play - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plickers.client.android&hl=en

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While students were working in learning stations: including First in Math, Splash Math, Multiplication War (card game), and QR Codes with a free activity identifying arrays from TPT.

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Parents share contact information using Google Forms. It was great!

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Parents used Google Forms for all the important contact information. We also had parents sign up for Bloomz. Upon reflection-next year I would like to still have parents use Google Forms at Back to School Night but I'll send home sign up information for Bloomz home on a handout. Many families have several classrooms to visit and I don't want to have too many tasks for them to complete in my room.

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Single Point Rubric for Explorer Project

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Single Point Rubric for Explorer Project

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Our first math unit covers quite a bit of information. As a study tool I tried working with Google Slides to facilitate practice before testing.

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Misty Sammons  This is my 11th year of teaching 3rd grade at Gateway Elementary School. This year, I have an opportunity to team teach and I focus on math, science and social studies. I also work with our school's math inclusion teacher for both of my math classes! I love finding and creating engaging learning experiences where students discover concepts outlined by our state standards. 

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Misty Sammons  This is my 11th year of teaching 3rd grade at Gateway Elementary School. This year, I have an opportunity to team teach and I focus on math, science and social studies. I also work with our school's math inclusion teacher for both of my math classes! I love finding and creating engaging learning experiences where students discover concepts outlined by our state standards. 

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One of our school goals is to improve in the area of vocabulary. If you log on to Discovery Education, you can find numerous SOS Strategies. They are organized by skill. I chose one of the ideas to use as a response to a video complimenting our science unit on Habitats and Adaptations.

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Sammons: Learning Stations with Differentiated Groups

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Sammons: Learning Stations with Differentiated Groups

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After many hours of figuring out how to organize groupings on paper, I've finally developed a template (with the help of a peer teacher) that works for me. This year I have enough Chromebooks to plan for two digital stations. I also have the inclusion teacher available, allowing for opportunities to have 2 teachers available during stations. The last station is for students to practice work independently (usually a handout activity).

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Sammons: Learning Stations with Differentiated Groups

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Sammons: Learning Stations with Differentiated Groups

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After many hours of figuring out how to organize groupings on paper, I've finally developed a template (with the help of a peer teacher) that works for me. This year I have enough Chromebooks to plan for two digital stations. I also have the inclusion teacher available, allowing for opportunities to have 2 teachers available during stations. The last station is for students to practice work independently (usually a handout activity).

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Bloomz has been the best web 2.0 I have ever used!  It helps me stay in touch with parents and share what we're doing in class in such an easy and effective way.  Scheduling conferences, asking for supplies, organizing volunteers has been so simple this year!  I highly recommend this to all teachers.

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Sammons: SOS for enhancing vocabulary AEIOU

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Sammons: SOS for enhancing vocabulary AEIOU

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Each SOS has an explanation and/or video for teacher use. Discovery Education recommended stopping throughout the video to record notes (not during the video). Then afterwards, students shared responses with each other. Lastly, some responses were shared as a whole group and the teacher recorded "class" responses.

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One of our school goals is to improve in the area of vocabulary. If you log on to Discovery Education, you can find numerous SOS Strategies. They are organized by skill. I chose one of the ideas to use as a response to a video complimenting our science unit on Habitats and Adaptations.

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Students found an equivalent fraction for a given fraction (selected by the teacher because it was differentiated) and modeled the equivalency 3 ways and explained their reasoning.

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There are so many resources available on Discovery Education. One of the most exciting resources for me this year has been Board Builder. Teachers have the ability to find content that other teachers have made OR create their own board uniquely designed for their own classroom. This is a board I found previously made for mass. We used it as a whole group. But I think this would've worked well in learning stations as well.

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Technology with Learning Stations in Guided Math/Differentiated Groups

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It was fun creating a paper slide show for my students. They even had a chance to draft their own slides too! This will make a great strategy to review concepts and get students thinking deeply.

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It was really fun preparing for a paper slide show for my class. They had an opportunity to work on their own slides too! This is a great review strategy for students!

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Goal 1: We will keep staff informed of our training and new ideas using a newsletter that will be emailed to the entire staff.

Goal 2: 70% of teachers in our school will implement at least one new way of incorporating technology for the benefit of their own teaching or student learning.

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msammons@greenville.k12.sc.us
Goals
1. Learn new strategies/tools to engage students in active learning activities.
2. Utilize technology in small group setting (possible a center).