Life and teaching is full of puddles,
splash through them with a smile or cry over dirty shoes,
but either way keep moving to those goals.
“Thank you for your input, I will take it into consideration”: Why Soft Skills Matter in the Classroom
Why everyday phrases like “Thank you for that input, I’ll take it into consideration” reflect essential soft skills students need today. Discover the top soft skills that help students succeed in school, relationships, and future careers.
Creating Learning
Analyze, Background, Information Gathering, Teaching with the End in Mind, Design, Presentation Style, Develop, Plan, Outline, Engage, Explore, Explain, Implement, Elaborate, Testing, Rough Draft, Final Draft, Evaluate
All of these are catch phrases for the idea in planning lessons, creating workshops, or any other type of “lesson.”….Learning becomes valid, is comprehended, and then incorporated more…
SAMR Ideas, Tools and Suggestions
Adding technology tools to the classroom doesn’t need to be costly or burdensome… In the classroom, we want to enhance and transform our lessons to encourage ownership in learning.
A future full of interruptions (adjustments)…
So how do we keep learning during these short interruptions that we try to think of as adjustments…
3 hurricanes and a train derailment…. Interruptions to the Classroom Environment
Attempting to teach virtually and face-to-face while dealing with daily interruptions that only 2020 can bring.
Flexibility…doesn’t mean a jump split
Eventually doesn’t mean immediate and it doesn’t mean perfection. It also doesn’t mean perfection immediately.
Creativity
Creativity changes our view points. Creativity solves problems. Creativity gives us rope swings… sometimes creativity is riding those rope swings, not knowing where you will land, if it will be a big splash, or a belly buster!
Critical Thinking
As a child of the 80’s and 90’s school was beginning to stress critical thinking in education…. but as a teacher from 2002 on critical thinking has been one of the main focal points. But why? I think one of my favorite memes that advocates for critical thinking is one where you have people trying…
Communication
So what does communication look like in the 21st century world… What did it look like the 20th century… What really changed… communicating with others or the tools that are being used? My daughter sends a snap to her friend from her phone, who gets it on her watch, who uses Siri to send to…
Collaboration…
It has been said by many in the educational community there are four C’s to 21st century learning: collaboration, communication, critical thinking and creativity. In my opinion, 21st century skills are the skills that students need to survive in a constantly changing, technologically-enhanced environment. I feel that these 4 skills haven’t changed in ideals yet,…
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