Wordless Wednesday is a quick post with just a picture from my classroom, a short explanation, and a question for you, my readers.
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I am using a new world history book this year. Yes, I am blessed to have updated materials, but the supplements that come with it are already available to students online. With one quick Google search, students can find the answers to most of the questions, reading guides, and section reviews.
My social studies students have kept notebooks many years in government, civics, economics, women's studies, psychology, U.S. history, and world history. I also prefer to avoid making copies as it is a lot of paper and always seems to take forever.
Every couple of days I like to have the students take their own notes from whatever reading we are doing. Just about every time, we use a two-column notes format.
A couple of psychology examples.
This was a recent layout for two pages on The French Revolution.
Do you have a preferred notes format?
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Wordless Wednesday is a quick post with just a picture from my classroom, a short explanation, and a question for you, my readers.
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Many schools start new terms in January, which means a new batch of students and teaching expectations. I have three simple expectations in my classroom: be honest, be respectful, and be on time and prepared. On the first day, students describe each of these expectations in the positive and negative forms.
I have students write around my room, which gets them up and moving and breaks up what can be a very boring first day of the term. Some examples are shared below.
How do you introduce expectations?
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Wordless Wednesday is a quick post with just a picture from my classroom, a short explanation, and a question for you, my readers.
This post contains affiliate links, and I will be compensated by the company at no cost to you if you purchase through my links. The opinions here are 100% mine!
The before and after of the one bulletin board in my classroom. I do, however, have two of those folding walls that I can staple stuff to. I hang the day 1 get-to-know-you assignment on this one.
Do you have any creative bulletin board ideas?
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Wordless Wednesday is a quick post with just a picture from my classroom, a short explanation, and a question for you, my readers.
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A power tower for the classroom. I bought this small power tower to sit on my student supply station by the door. Students can charge their devices while class is going on.
How do you manage cell phones?
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Wordless Wednesday is a quick post with just a picture from my classroom, a short explanation, and a question for you, my readers.
This post contains affiliate links, and I will be compensated by the company at no cost to you if you purchase through my links. The opinions here are 100% mine!
This is not anything fancy; it is just half a note card taped to my computer hard drive. These are how I remember the number of students in each class, so I can make or order the right number of copies of things. I can look and still manage to forget by the time I get to the copier at the other side of the building, so I also snap a photo on my phone.
Do you have to have a system for remembering class counts?
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Wordless Wednesday is a quick post with just a picture from my classroom, a short explanation, and a question for you, my readers.
This post contains affiliate links, and I will be compensated by the company at no cost to you if you purchase through my links. The opinions here are 100% mine!
So, I totally forgot that I had four of these photo keeper boxes full of color, laminated task cards for my English classes. I am going to be working these into my lesson plans next week. I bought the task cards from Teachers Pay Teachers HERE.
What old favorite of yours do you want to put back into lesson rotation?
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Wordless Wednesday is a quick post with just a picture from my classroom, a short explanation, and a question for you, my readers.
This post contains affiliate links, and I will be compensated by the company at no cost to you if you purchase through my links. The opinions here are 100% mine!
I got this beauty this week. It connects to my computer, so I can advance my slides from anywhere in my classroom. I don't know about you, but I hate being tethered to my desk.
What tech tool do you love in your classroom?
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