Use this Feelings Wheel by Kaitlin Robb to Help Your Students Express Themselves

I love this feelings wheel I saw posted by my colleague Amy Causey. It's attributed to Kaitlin Robb and the post said it was meant to be used by teachers to help students express themselves more clearly. I can certainly see how it could be used in any classroom! If someone makes a clearer copy of this, I hope you allow me to repost it here.

If I were still teaching teens, I would print this then have them cut it out and put it inside the cover of their composition book for daily writing, then I would refer to it when I asked them to write anything that might relate.

Share:

A Reminder for Teachers of Students from Poverty

I saw this post on Facebook shared by a friend via a private Instagram account. I don't know the person who originally created it. I re-typed it using Canva and added the tiny pencil, which I remembered students using literally to this size. If you are the original creator of this, please let me know so I can link to your resources.

Share:

Teachers Who Understand Learning...

Teachers who understand learning intentionally plan for student engagement. They realize it's not something that happens without work, but neither is learning.

Share:

What is Technology Integration?

In the simplest of terms, this is what technology integration is. What is it not? It's not "tech time" or "computer specials." It is not stopping learning to "do" technology. It's students engaging in real-world use of technology tools in the process or for the process of their learning.

Share:

Teachers: Get Ready to "Market" Content to Gen Z Students

Teachers all know that if you want a topic of study to really be successful, you've to got to SELL IT. I think at least part of my success as a teacher came from my ability to make students see they were learning things that were sort of secret and special. I know one of my former principals told me I was a "cult leader." I believe what he meant to say was "excellent at marketing content." Right?

So this graphic shared indirectly with my by my colleague David Gresham really spoke to me. If I were working with Gen Z, I would get some new tricks up my sleeve using this material. (For example, what would Romeo have Snap-chatted to Juliet? What was her first Instagram post? And the caption? Hashtags?)

Thanks to Marketo for licensing this fascinating graphic with Creative Commons attribution so that I can freely share it with you. 

Brought to you by Marketing Automation Software by Marketo

Share:

It's Simple: Ask Your Students . . .

I had the pleasure of hearing Shannon Miller speak a couple of weeks ago and her message was simple yet profound: JUST ASK STUDENTS what they THINK, NEED, and WANT. I re-shared this message as the keynote speaker at the Texas Foreign Language Association conference last week. Sensei John Cadena was listening and provided his students that very opportunity today. I wonder if you can use his graphic organizer for gathering student feedback to improve your class room tomorrow? I hope so. Thanks for sharing, John. Check out John's blog here.

Share:

An Amazing Student A-Ha! Moment: Sometimes You Have to Do Something BEFORE You Understand It

This afternoon, a group of adults, admins and teachers, and I met with a group of 5 students to work together to plan our Day of Code event. One of the young men told a story that I feel compelled to share. It really rocked my world. I'll paraphrase for you . . .

"I watched a ten minute YouTube tutorial about how to code in HTML; before that, I knew nothing about it. Then, I opened up Notepad and followed the instructions to type in some code in the way I learned from the video. After that, I opened up the text file I made with Safari, and that's when I understood what coding was. Sometimes, you just have to do something before you understand it."

And that my friends, rocked my world.

Share: