HowTo: Have a good advisory Eat. Stop at the store. Pick up some donuts, mini-muffins, and assorted fruit. Advisory isn’t a fun place for students. Make it more inviting. Bribery through food is a good start. Apologize. Mainly apologize for using the “curriculum” you’re supposed to be using. Be honest. Tell them you were trying [...]
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Deborah Meier: “There’s too often a very off-putting kindergarten teacher’s voice, and so on all the way through the grades. I catch myself speaking that way on occasion. What would schools be like, I imagine, if we learned to use our conversational adult voice within its four walls. It might immediately remind us that we [...]
I need your help. The background Each teacher at my school is assigned what they call a mentor/mentee group. It’s generally the same idea as an Advisory, Forum, Seminar, etc. that many schools are doing nowadays. We meet every other week for 30 minutes. The first meeting was essentially to fill out paperwork. The second [...]
I’ve taken to adding in “fun facts” to my class. I’m not sure if I got this idea from Dan Meyer in the first place, or if I stumbled upon it independently and then had my habit reinforced by his enthusiasm for a little fun unbound from the “standard” curriculum. They Pro-crast-i-na-tion: I’ve seen all [...]
