Week 1 - Inspirational Highs by Matthew DeMeritt https://padlet.com/mdemeritt/ijlbvo1oqn90 Share an outstanding, inspirational moment from your first week of school en-us 2016-08-31 05:24:19 UTC 2023-06-13 20:25:27 UTC hello@padlet.com Watching all my students writing with effort, daily, for 10 minutes! https://padlet.com/mdemeritt/ijlbvo1oqn90/wish/120854875 2016-08-31 15:18:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemeritt/ijlbvo1oqn90/wish/120854875 bellis5 https://padlet.com/mdemeritt/ijlbvo1oqn90/wish/120854941 Doing the Week of Inspirational Math (thanks to Rochelle Ferran for the idea) and seeing students with serious math anxiety get excited about number patterns and puzzles.]]> 2016-08-31 15:18:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemeritt/ijlbvo1oqn90/wish/120854941 Watching my students get excited about controversial topics they want to debate while I make a list of them on the whiteboard wall. https://padlet.com/mdemeritt/ijlbvo1oqn90/wish/120855014 2016-08-31 15:18:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemeritt/ijlbvo1oqn90/wish/120855014 https://padlet.com/mdemeritt/ijlbvo1oqn90/wish/120855141 Listening to students give a short speech on what inspires them to take Spanish!]]> 2016-08-31 15:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemeritt/ijlbvo1oqn90/wish/120855141 Laura Breedlove lbreedlove1 https://padlet.com/mdemeritt/ijlbvo1oqn90/wish/120855458 Quickly added a "textbook hunt" for early finishers on another activity. Turned into a very engaging, somewhat competitive, easy way to familiarize kids with textbooks and keep me moving through the room to talk to kids.]]> 2016-08-31 15:19:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemeritt/ijlbvo1oqn90/wish/120855458 Generally having a wonderful time teaching our 6th grader Simrit Singh, a girl with a rare skin disease. Knowing her is an honor. https://padlet.com/mdemeritt/ijlbvo1oqn90/wish/120855538 2016-08-31 15:19:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemeritt/ijlbvo1oqn90/wish/120855538 Birthday Number Trick https://padlet.com/mdemeritt/ijlbvo1oqn90/wish/120856135 Students were amazed to realize we can use Algebra to figure out anyone's birthday. ]]> 2016-08-31 15:21:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemeritt/ijlbvo1oqn90/wish/120856135 Wonderful conversation about how patriotic my 11th graders are on a scale of 0 (low) to 10 (high) average was 4.5 jpollard5 https://padlet.com/mdemeritt/ijlbvo1oqn90/wish/120856275 2016-08-31 15:22:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemeritt/ijlbvo1oqn90/wish/120856275 https://padlet.com/mdemeritt/ijlbvo1oqn90/wish/120858437 Hearing students say "This is so cool! I'm going to cancel my weekend plans so I can do this instead."]]> 2016-08-31 15:29:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemeritt/ijlbvo1oqn90/wish/120858437 tsimoni https://padlet.com/mdemeritt/ijlbvo1oqn90/wish/120859013 I am scaffolding the early stages of my Senior Project differently to assuage student anxiety.  It appears to be working. Baby steps. 

]]> 2016-08-31 15:30:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mdemeritt/ijlbvo1oqn90/wish/120859013 Warm-Up https://padlet.com/mdemeritt/ijlbvo1oqn90/wish/120945111 If you could have any super power what would you want and why?  Student response: I wish I could heal people there are so many people suffering in the world and I would like to heal them ALL
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