November Lead Mentor Collaboration by Aimee Ayers

Fast Finish Choice Boards for Elementary

kellimccammond — 2024-11-13 23:22:55 UTC

Teach Like A Champion (FREE videos/modules/practice)

aimeeayers1 — 2024-11-14 17:38:36 UTC

Newbies and 1:1 Mentors can set up free accounts. The newbie can watch multiple video examples for each strategy and record themselves practicing. The recordings can be shared with the mentor for feedback.

Rise and Shine lead4ward Strategy

kellimccammond — 2024-11-15 19:42:51 UTC

Boost student engagement with this fun and interactive strategy: students pick their favorite from four options, team up with others who share their choice, and collaborate to tackle questions or tasks—fostering connection, critical thinking, and lively discussions!

Organizing your Google Drive

kellimccammond — 2024-11-18 23:06:28 UTC

Fantastic tips from Cary Fulgham to help organize your Google Drive!

Email Organization

kellimccammond — 2024-11-18 23:09:45 UTC

Cary Fulgham will walk you through creating labels and managing your settings to help organize your email.

The 3 D's of Paperwork

kellimccammond — 2024-11-18 23:14:33 UTC

Shining Spotlight

2024-11-19 15:24:46 UTC

We are creating videos of our classrooms to share and upload to our social media. They are 30 second clips with interview of kiddos and teachers about how that teacher is shining. Our school them is "Watch Us Shine" so that is why we named it that, but you could name it almost anything.

Engaging elementary students

2024-11-19 15:25:15 UTC

Why I Teach... Accordion File Folder

monique_cupak — 2024-11-19 15:25:16 UTC

I got new teachers a plastic accordion file folder and asked our art teacher to write "Why I Teach..." on the front. New teachers can put letters, cards and art from students in it to look at when they have hard days.

2024-11-19 15:25:42 UTC

Ask students how would they like to show their thinking or understanding of a concept or idea.

AI Resource

2024-11-19 15:25:45 UTC

Popsicle Sticks/Cards with Names

2024-11-19 15:26:20 UTC

Super simple, but it works! I use playing cards with student names for each class period. I have students read the reminders, essential question, agenda, etc. to limit my voice. After group collaboration or writing, I use the cards first to amplify student voice during whole class discussion. No one can opt out this way.

RLA - Writing - Grammar

2024-11-19 15:26:42 UTC

Want a way for students to practice and learn new skills for writing and grammar? This is a great site for independent practice.

Math practice

2024-11-19 15:26:55 UTC

Social Contracts

monique_cupak — 2024-11-19 15:27:20 UTC

Students create a social contract that everyone follows. Capturing Kids Heart

Chatty Class?

2024-11-19 15:29:15 UTC

Save your voice from telling them to get quiet every five seconds. Call your class to attention ONCE and then immediately start silently counting on your fingers (hands up high so they can see). Find a spot on your board to record the wasted seconds and add to it throughout the week. It's also a great way to throw in addition ALL day long. Create a seconds to minutes conversion chart. At the end of the week, have the class sit in silence for the same amount of seconds that they wasted (I do this at the beginning of Fun Friday. If your class is like mine was when I started this, you'll be in the 300s the first week. It will be their goal every week to beat their time from the week before. Come up with some reward for when they reach their goal every week! My class went from the high 300s the first week to less than 20 seconds the last week of school!

Questioning for More Participation

micha_homyk1 — 2024-11-19 15:29:36 UTC

Shared Journals

2024-11-19 15:30:12 UTC

One of our students' favorite early finishers is shared journals. So on the front cover of a journal is a "prompt picture" and there is 6-8 to choose from and with what time they have left they can write or draw on theme, and most of the time they don't finish so someone else gets to finish their writing piece.

Student Reward Menu

2024-11-19 15:30:35 UTC

My students work hard for rewards and recognition... but they have a wide variety of things that motivate them. I created a class economy where students earn a standard token that they then can then turn in at a time of their choosing for a "menu item." Items include low cost things such as candy, positive phone calls home, preferred seating, etc.

Questioning for More Participation

micha_homyk1 — 2024-11-19 15:30:42 UTC

Connecting with Students

2024-11-19 17:18:39 UTC

We use these simple circles to connect with our students. Would you Rather Questions, Inspirational Quotes, Getting to Know you Questions, etc. This could help with keeping students engaged, and minimizing the behavioral issues of challenging students.

2024-11-19 17:18:56 UTC

If you teach Math and you are using IXL, it will send you certificates that students achieved. You can print them out and give them a prize with them, I used Hershey Bars.

Ditch That Textbook

2024-11-19 17:18:59 UTC

This is an awesome place to find gamification for lessons. It has an abundance of templates to help incorporate technology and make your lessons engaging.

2024-11-19 17:20:51 UTC

2024-11-19 17:21:26 UTC

At the beginning of the year, I got all my new teachers a teacher survival kit and put chapstick, Tylenol, sonic gift cards, phone chargers, earrings, hair ties, keychains and stickers to give out to their kids.

Anticipate Needs

2024-11-19 17:22:06 UTC

Every day I build in a "meditation moment" and "brain break" slide. I use short sound videos/or guided breathing for the meditation (usually for my class that comes right after lunch), and Ted Ed videos or short clips that match up to the themes of our units. We don't need them every day, but it helps to know they are there and ready to use. The more engaging and routine it is, the better the buy in from the students becomes. When I taught lower grades, it looked more like reading a short chapter while students used the restroom or laid their head down for a break after lunch. Pad those tough transitions to make them work for you. The minutes it takes to implement, saves you more time in the long run.

Google Keep

2024-11-19 17:22:34 UTC

Google Keep is one of my favourite resources to keep track of everything I have to get done in a timely manner. TPT has cute headers you can download to customize your notes, and notes can be shared with collaborators (like a student teacher, new teacher, etc.)

Thinking Routines beyond Lead4Ward Strategies.

2024-11-19 17:23:09 UTC

This website has amazing resources in these categories:

Thinking Routines, Digging Deeper into Ideas, Introducing and Exploring Ideas, Investigating Objects and Systems, Considering Controversies, Dilemmas, and Perspectives, Generating Possibilities and Analogies, Global Thinking, etc.