R.E.A.L. Teaching

This infographic really hit home for me. I have worked with some very difficult teachers and faculties in the past and this infographic doesn't apply to just individual teachers, but whole teams and faculties. These are not only highly effective habits for teachers, but these habits create more effective teaching teams and more effective faculties in schools. Faculties that work together, toward a shared mission and vision. All of which leads to the ultimate goal...student success!

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R.E.A.L. Resource

What your friendly school librarian can do for you...

(data/numbers pulled from Metro Nashville Public Schools School Library Programs)

R.E.A.L Resource

I stumbled upon this on Twitter tonight and thought I'd post it...awesome Math resource! The blog posts a "Would You Rather" question, covering a variety of Math topics, that require students to justify their answers (sound familiar??). REAL content, REAL application of Math, what more could you ask for?

Would You Rather?

R.E.A.L. Idea

I saw this on Twitter and it's right on!

If they can do the worksheet, they don't need it. If they can't, it won't help them. Marilyn Adams @jcorippo
— Holly Clark (@HollyEdTechDiva) January 12, 2014

Get R.E.A.L. Learning Opportunities

So, I recently went through a 3 day Buck Institute for Education Project-Based Learning workshop and it was amazing...talk about getting rid of worksheets and getting students engaged in learning! Even if you can't go to one of their trainings they have a great website with a lot of excellent resources for teachers. Check it out...

Project Based Learning for the 21st Century

R.E.A.L Resource

If you haven't heard of or seen this site, it's seriously amazing. It's a collection of videos of teachers teaching awesome lessons and discussing them. So many good ideas and you get to see them in action! (and, yes, they are aligned with Common Core!)

Teaching Channel

Get R.E.A.L. Group Consensus

This is a strategy I learned from my assistant principal this year. It it a way for a group to work together and come up with a group consensus about a particular topic. So after the activity (reading, discussion, video, etc...) each group is given a poster board. On that poster board they need to draw a smaller circle in the middle and a larger circle around that (think of a circle inside of a circle). The outside gets divided into sections (one section per person). So if there are five people in the group, then you divide it into five sections. For a specific amount of time (a couple of minutes) each individual reflects and in their section each student writes down his/her answer to the question, their thoughts, and/or take-aways. Then (as a group) each person shares his/her ideas and in the middle the group writes down common responses. In the end- you have group consensus. After that, each group could share out to the whole class and you can create a class consensus about the topic/activity.