“Trust yourself that you can do it and get it.”
Baz Luhrmann.
In Classroom Screen, add a picture of a vacation or something you have done recently in the background to spark conversation in your classroom. Students want to hear stories about your life to know you are human too.
Celebrate your small wins.
Use the exit ticket- One thing I feel that I have accomplished this class period is ____________________.
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Socrates
Use the WICOR strategy “Talking Chips” to get everyone in your class talking.
“A negative mind will never give you a positive life.” – Unknown
Have students create a one pager on what you just taught or what they just read non-digitally or digitally using Jamboard or Canva.
“Everything is hard before it is easy.” Goethe
Play catch the slip up. Put two correct answers and one wrong answer on the board, and have students catch the “slip up” answer.
“Take the risk or lose the chance.” – Unknown
Review with a game of Blooket. You can use a stack already created on Quizlet to import into the game, so you are not creating it from scratch.
The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes; so it is with every one who is born of the Spirit.
John 3:8
Exit Ticket Idea with sentence stem: One thing I learned today is _________________________.
Though the mountain may crumble you will not.
Isaiah 54:10
Print a set of 6 different questions on post its, enough copies for your class, as students walk in, they pick a post it and have to answer the question on it.
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
CS Lewis
Use Slides Mania (free website) to find awesome Google Slide and Microsoft Powerpoint templates.
My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.
Steve Jobs
Marking the text (aka annotating) is proven research to help students have a deeper understanding of what they have read.
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar
Fundamental Five states that after 10-15 minute teacher talk, let students have a purposeful talk.
It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great!
Tom Hanks - A League of Their Own
Do you know Brenham High School has the paid version of BrainPop (video collection on tons of topics) and EdPuzzle (embeds questions into the videos you make)?
If we create a culture where every teacher believes they need to improve, not because they are not good enough, but because they can be even better, there is no limit to what we can achieve.
-Dylan Wiliam
Recognize and reinforce (F5) the small wins by your students.