September Parent Cafe

Thursday, September 11 was my first Parent Cafe for parents of elementary students. I was thrilled to have 24 parents who represented K-5th grade. Esther Tsuji, one of our resource teachers was a tremendous help. The slide presentation from the Cafe.   Who is most important for your child’s success in school? YOU Each year […]

Reverse Learning

Flipped classrooms, where students watch a lecture at home and then come to class and do projects and homework with the teacher’s guidance sounds interesting but not necessarily practical for lower primary grades. As a teacher leader at our school, the idea of flipping staff meetings started me thinking. In his post, Bill states “The […]

Project based learning

Project based learning(PBL) and Challenged based learning(CBL) how would I use them in my classroom? Buck Institute for Education defines standards-focused PBL as a systematic teaching method that engages students in learning knowledge and skills through an extended inquiry process structured around complex, authentic questions and carefully designed products and tasks. Challenge Based Learning was developed by Apple and is defined […]

ReMix and Mashup

This week I had reading to do about remix and mashup. As I read these and various other articles I was feeling overwhelmed and saturated. I know that teaching my students about remixing is something to think about in the future, at this point in my own understanding I’m not sure what second graders need to […]