Showing posts with label may. Show all posts
Showing posts with label may. Show all posts

Monday, 5 May 2014

May's Character Trait - Respect

Thank you to all who participated in last month's character assembly about responsibility!

May's character trait is respect.

Thanks to Kelly for the following video links:

The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmSRkxulmPo

Whoever You Are by Mem Fox, read by Kate Verrall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9swWI5SPKQ

Thursday, 1 May 2014

Growth Mindset - Own It 2

Own It!

While we continue to focus on students owning their learning and mindset, we as teachers also need to take a step back to recognize all that we do.  Here's a little motivation from Taylor Mali :)


The "Favourite No" strategy is one that asks students to be okay with their mistakes.  The video linked below explains the strategy and shows it in action in Leah Alcala's Grade 8 class:

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/class-warm-up-routine