#2ndaryELA is a group of middle and high school English Language Arts teachers looking to share ideas and best practices. We chat every Tuesday night at 8 pm EST using #2ndaryELA. We'd love for you to join us!
My name is Pernille, I teach 7th grade ELA in Oregon, Wi and my random thoughts baout education and life can be found on my blog at https://t.co/zJ8knxT4OA#2ndaryELA
One of the ways I am trying to grow this year is to teach with an active anti-racist and equity lens and giving the space for students to lead their discussion and learning #2ndaryELA
A1: I think that giving students as many ways to control their education. The difficult part is keeping the balance between state standards and student owned education. #2ndaryELA
A1: Be prepared with multiple activities, be flexible, mix up lessons, whole class, group work, and ind. time, flexible seating and students get choices. #2ndaryELA
A2: I’ve recently started creating learning target ladders where a target is written in tiers. Ss can see that mastery is a process and know what they’re working towards. We do a lot of reflecting. #2ndaryELA
I find my students with IEPs and the advanced students are the most scared about choices. The average students just roll with whatever you give them #2ndaryELA
And I wonder; how many learning explorations are missed because we don't tap into the best professional development that we have - the students we serve? #2ndaryELA
A2: Ss set goals and reflect on them, keep track of their data, have choices with book selection, writing topics, and with technology components. #2ndaryELA
And realizing that we need to grow too, I keep looking back and being grateful for how far I have come and then looking ahead and being glad I still have a lot to learn #2ndaryELA
Ownership is shared at all times - kids have control over manipulating the room, but also how we go through learning, the best ideas are usually kid generated #2ndaryELA
A3: I teach private percussion lessons. During these I allow the students to pick their own music, because otherwise would they really feel the need to learn it? I feel this is relative across all literature.
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My 10honors wanted to read something we only had 2 weeks to do. I showed them the standards we had to cover and the calendar. Told them to make a plan. I didn’t teach a thing. #2ndaryela 1/2
A3: Daily during independent reading. Ss choose where to sit, how to read, PB, audio, Epic, online, on their own, with a partner, with an Instructional aide. (At the beg. of the year, they kept asking permission; now it’s automatic.)#2ndaryELA
I keep coming back to that school is bigger than what I teach, that it is not just about learning English, that it is about growing to be equipped to be a part of the broader world #2ndaryELA
A4: Feedback? I’m pretty good at giving feedback, but I won’t give feedback unless it’s their best work, so my students work to get it ready. #2ndaryELA
Tbh I don’t really have issues. My admin team deals with things in such a way that the kids rarely act up. I can just teach + build relationships #2ndaryELA
Can I publicly state that I dislike the term "classroom managment" - I am not controlling kids, we are trying to create a community that works for everyone #2ndaryELA
How many situations could be made better if we just sat down next to a kid and asked them if they are okay rather than assuming we need to fix or control something #2ndaryELA
A4: Feedback? I’m pretty good at giving feedback, but I won’t give feedback unless it’s their best work, so my students work to get it ready. #2ndaryELA
A5: peardeck is great for adding engagement pieces to a “boring” lesson, like slides. Direction instruction becomes collaborative with immediate feedback #2ndaryELA
Another way is to give genuine praise, I sat down and wrote 26 "I have noticed..." postcards to a class, it matters so much to share that you see how hard they work #2ndaryELA
Special thanks to @pernilleripp for being our guest host tonight! And thank you #2ndaryELA nation for another great chat! Join us next week for Teaching Advanced Courses!
My best engagement technique will forver be to ask the students how I can be a better teacher for them and then actually do something with the advice they give #2ndaryELA
A5: We put large posters on the wall with everyons picture on it for the first week. Every once in a while we will all go write nice things on somebody's poster.
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Thank you so much for having me #2ndaryELA chat - I will now resume my Twitter hiatus but can be found on Instagram recommending books, on my blog sharing https://t.co/U0INRomYRj, and in my classroom learning from the kids
A5: Flipgrid, make writing for real purposes (authors, military, other teachers), make connections and celebrate reading throughout the year. (GRA,WRAD, RAAD) #2ndaryELA
I do a lot of work with GT learners' needs -- multipotentiality is a common trait, as is perfectionism. Sometimes both. When you see multiple roads, it can be tough to settle on one -- what if it's not the best or most appropriate? What if I see value in many? #2ndaryELA
