Ms. Vreeland is a new teacher working to improve the management of her classroom. She shares a video of her class with management expert Jackie Ancess. Mrs. V takes what shes learned and tries it out in her class. Watch the before and after.
In this Wide Angle video segment, meet 16-year-old Rajap, a Chechen refugee who attempts to continue his education while living in a tent city.
Newsela is an innovative way to build reading comprehension with nonfiction. Daily news articles are grouped by topics such as Arts, Sports, War and Peace. Teachers search by topic, grade level, standards, and available quizzes, and they can also create a class and assign articles to read. Each article has five available lexiles to help differentiate for students. Students can practice targeted reading skills through typed written responses.
Normally we find things using landmark navigation. When you move to a new place, it may take you awhile to explore the new streets and buildings, but eventually you recognize enough landmarks and remember where they are in relation to each other. However, another accurate method for locating places and things is using grids and coordinates. In this activity, students will come up with their own system of a grid and coordinates for their classroom and understand why it is important to have one common method of map-making.
• I can complete the Skills Lab assessment to identify skills that I want to use in my future career
• I can reflect upon the skills that I currently have that will be useful in my future career and explore options for developing the skills that I need to gain in the future
• I can evaluate explore careers that are a good match for me based upon my Skills Lab results
• I can update my saved careers based upon the skills that I prefer to use
• I can identify and reflect upon skills that I may need in my career
• I can identify skills that I am practicing today that I may use in my future career
• I can identify skills that I need to develop
• I can identify experiences that helped me develop a work-related skill
• I can add work experiences (volunteering, joining a club, playing a sport, part-time work) that I have gained that connect to building workplace readiness skills and knowledge
• I can add work-based learning opportunities available through my school that I am interested in pursuing to the Career Goals on My Plan
• I can add part-time work experiences that I will pursue during high school to the Career Goals on My Plan
• I can explain what resilience is and why it is important to achieve success
• I can identify skills, habits, and behaviors that are needed to be successful in high school and beyond
• I can identify the skills, habits, and behaviors needed to be successful in high school
• I can identify potential obstacles to success in high school
• I can develop a personal plan for developing positive student habits and minimize negative influences on my success
• I can identify my learning style
• I can identify and develop learning strategies that work best with my learning style
• I can utilize these strategies to develop resilience and perseverance in courses that are challenging
• I can personalize my Xello page by adding pictures
• I can think realistically about how I did on an assignment or task
• I can develop a strategy or learn how to improve in the future
• I can explain why resilience and perseverance are important to different areas of my life in and out of school
• I can complete a self-assessment to rate myself on resilience and perseverance
• I can reflect on what I’ve learned about careers this year
• I can identify my personality style
• I can explore how my personality style will help me in three careers that are a good match for me
• I can successfully match each Holland Code Label with the description of the personality type
• I can identify how three of my Saved Careers are good matches for my personality
• I can apply background knowledge of personality styles and apply them to career choices
• I can better understand how personality types relate to core job tasks and workplace environments
• I can apply knowledge of personality styles and describe how they connect to a job in a business that I am familiar with
• I can explain how my personality can be helpful at home, school, work, and other areas of my life
• I can reflect on how my personality style has helped me relate to others at school and one other environment (ex. Clubs, sports teams, workplaces, or volunteer activities)
• I can review three career profiles in My Saved Options and will record how I feel about these saved careers
• I can identify factors that I like and dislike about these jobs