A little bit about me ….
I have been teaching for going on 18 years now … I love, love, love family & friends. I love good food, a good wine … & good(!) music. I adore sharing stories, laughter, knowledge & experience … Love Twitter: after all, there’s so much to know & learn! I relish a good giggle. I am obsessed with people watching, fashion & architecture. Experiencing travel & art, setting goals & taking risks are important to me … live, laugh, love … Please note that the views/information presented here are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.
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Recent Posts
- Edmodo & Role Playing
- This is the Way We Start Each Day (: A Surprising “Assessment Tool”)
- The Qualities of a Good Team Leader
- Science: The Human Body – Grade 5 – Final Assessments
- Activity: Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying and Dividing with Decimals
- Islands of Excellence – Part I
- Edmodo in the Grade 5 Classroom
- 12 Classroom Tips for New Teachers … if you were a fly on my wall!
- Backwards Planning, Understanding & Learning in the Classroom: Understanding by Design®
- Idiom Art
- Why I Love Twitter #Chats
- Getting to Know You Activity – “Me In A Bag, 2012”
- Novel : Responses to Text
- The Dynamic Duo – My Social Media PD Superheroes Part II – Pinterest
- The Dynamic Duo – My Social Media PD Superheroes
- What I Love About Teaching
- “What’s Your Sentence”
- Ancient Greece Job Fair
- Grade 5 Earth Week Challenge
- How Girls Learn
- Reality Based Math – Making it Relevant
- What’s on your “Wish List”?
- Assignment Mash-Up: Math & Literature
- Grateful Journals
- “Technology Tuesdays”
- Valentine’s Day Math, Language, Science & Art Activities
- Three Things My Students Will Never Say
- Citizenship: “I am Proud to be ….”
- Teacher Tips – Things I Try to Keep in Mind
- Using Wordle, Storybird, Voicethread & Google Earth in the Classroom
- My Top Picks: Activities & Approaches that Rocked Our First Term!
- Attention & Initiation in the Classroom
- Singing to Teach Reading: Decoding, Fluency & Expression
- An Approach to Social Studies & Science: Building Excitement – Engaging Students
- Active Listening and Initiating Tasks – The Engaged Learner:
- Our Children: Expose, Encourage, Give Permission, Have …
- The Benefits of Student Blogging – Alphabetically Speaking
- More Than “Just Numbers” – Math Success: The Cognitive Ingredients
- “See – Say – Sign – Share” – A Whole Class Memory Strategy
- A Quick Blog & List For Teachers: Organizational Ideas & Strategies in the Classroom
- For Teachers: Different Ways to Communicate With Parents – 25 Suggestions
- 30 Ways to Encourage Student Writers — Alphabetically Speaking
- For Kids: How to Have a Great School Year! Two Categories & Twenty-five Steps
- How to Build Confidence in Your Child
- The Teach & Tell
- Encouraging a Love of Reading
- Tutoring
- Initial Reading Assessments in the Classroom
- What Successful Math Students Do
- Writing Tools for Grade 5
I’m so glad to have found your blog. I also teach math, and I love some of your ideas.
Glad to have found you here and on Twitter…also a big believe in backward design.
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Such a great way to approach design and planning!