Happy December! It’s crazy how both fast and slow this year is moving, but as usual, December kind of snuck up on me. Before getting to today’s Weekly Finds, I want to share that I am adding Weekly Finds to LinkedIn. With all the Twitter craziness, I’m unsure what may happen in the future and wanted to have another place where this could be shared out.
1. Rock, Paper, Scissors
There are many varieties of the game Rock, Paper, Scissors, and this one is purely educational and fun!
2. Unpopular Opinions
This idea from Nicholas Ferroni might just motivate your students to write persuasive essays.
I love how many ideas could come from this; think movies, music, video games, books, food…there’s many different ways this could go!
3. UDL in Math
Check out these strategies for incorporating Universal Design in math classes.
4. What to Say Instead of “I Don’t Know”
As a tech coach, one of the biggest complaints I hear from teachers is their students responding with “I don’t know” and giving up. As a school with a large ELL population, sometimes saying “I don’t know” is the easiest response because they’re not sure how to communicate a more clarifying question. So this chart below is a great way to help students learn additional things to ask and helps them learn it through what might be their first language. If nothing else, you can post this in your classroom and students can point to the question they want to ask.
It’s also important to remember that students may know multiple languages, so there might be another language such as French that they can communicate in.
Whatโs your favorite Weekly Find this week? Do you have a Find to share and think it should be featured? Leave a comment below!
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Ms Priester EDU 