I was inspired to switch my personal Instagram account over to an official “@ThePinspiredTeacher” account because of What the Teacher Wants and Apples and ABC’s #TeacherTalkTuesday Instagram Party. You can follow me my URL is http://instagram.com/thepinspiredteacher so just search for @ThePinspiredTeacher and it will look somethin’ like this: I am really excited to also announce a photo challenge to kick-off teacher appreciation month….
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My students are officially done with testing, YAY! I mentioned previously that my students love taking brain breaks (we call it “PEAK”) that involve physical activity. We often do silly videos or dance videos, but when it comes to the BIG 2 1/2 hour tests my kiddos must endure, we turn to this video: During testing, students are not allowed…
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This year my team changed the way we are departmentalized in 4th grade. We split up language arts into reading and writing as two separate classes. We did this with thinking about Common Core and how every teacher needs to be a “reading teacher” whether they teach math, science, etc. I was responsible for teaching 3 sections of 70…
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Hey Pinners! Todays topic: I have an Anchor Charts board on Pinterest that have accumulated into a total of 178 pins (and counting). I’m all for spotting good ideas and telling myself, “I need to try that one day,” but the problem is…I don’t. They just sit there in Pinterest collecting cyber dust. I especially don’t remember to use pins…
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As a newer teacher I find myself always looking up which questions/activities fall under what level of higher-order thinking. While looking up action verbs for each level of thinking I would find repeating verbs in multiple levels and I think things like, “Ok, so is comparing ideas analyzing or evaluating?” I got so tired of being confused that I borrowed…
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