Holding Students Accountable During Daily 5 When I taught fifth grade, one of my most challenging jobs was to keep 20-something fifth graders on task during Daily 5 so that I could get all my conferencing done and they could practice the skills they were supposed to...
All of us use it: the end-of-the-semester, culminating project. Or maybe it’s the cumulative whopper of a final exam. And why not? It’s what we had to do when we were in school, wasn’t it? All classes must end in some sort of final event that makes...
This year, I’ve been working with an amazing team of sixth grade ELA teachers at Bryant Middle School to make the transition to implementing My Learning Plan on a digital platform using Mahara. Previously, the team was introduced to Mahara and some of the...
We All Make Mistakes I recently read an article published on Shaelynn Farnsworth’s blog, entitled 6 Alternatives to Reading Logs. It piqued my interest because I remember assigning reading logs in my classroom, and how that plan didn’t always work out so...
Today, students in Joe Shannon’s 2nd hour history class at Fordson generated QR codes for their “My Learning Plan” Pages and submitted them to Mr. Shannon’s iLearn course. Mr. Shannon can now print the QR codes so students can place the code in...