My current international school is an extremely forward thinking institution with its heavy emphasis on C21 learning, including blended and personalized learning concepts and ideas. While there are many adopted technologies in our school, such as Seesaw for portfolio and social media use, our school-wide LMS is a Moodle-based platform called KICSLearns. While most people are familiar … Continue reading How can Moodle be used in Elementary?
5 Books To Start a Book Club for Teachers
There is something special about book clubs that you don't get from other forms of teacher PD. I love the feeling of finally being able to share what I've read with a group of likeminded individuals, all of whom have a different perspective on the same source material. In book clubs, everyone comes in as … Continue reading 5 Books To Start a Book Club for Teachers
5 Ways to Give Your Class Back to Your Students
Like many new teachers, I used to be uncomfortable giving up control. I saw a well functioning class as largely teacher-directed, and that if you gave students too many choices they would end up choosing poorly for themselves. How wrong I was. The following tips are some strategies that I use to make my classroom … Continue reading 5 Ways to Give Your Class Back to Your Students
5 Fun Idea Generators to Get Kids Writing
Before 1:1, I used to take lists of writing prompts or story starters that I found online and cut them out into small strips for the students. It was time consuming, and when they were all used up, I had to go find some more. Nowadays, I rely mostly on online random generators to create … Continue reading 5 Fun Idea Generators to Get Kids Writing
Project Shawarma – Students Translate Arabic Menu for a Local Restaurant
A common problem for me as a non-Arabic speaking Khawaja in #Sudan is that many restaurants do not have English language translations. After having one of the best shawarmas in the city just a few months ago, but only being able to say "shawarma jumbo", I was naturally curious to find out what else was … Continue reading Project Shawarma – Students Translate Arabic Menu for a Local Restaurant
Happy Mathsgiving!
There's nothing quite like having perfect timing in teaching: when a fantastic opportunity arises for you to give your students a real-life experience about exactly what you’re teaching at that very moment. That’s what happened to me this week. My favorite holiday, like many Americans, is Thanksgiving. Living in abroad in Sudan, November 24th … Continue reading Happy Mathsgiving!
Seesaw Trick: The Imaginary Student
I have seen a lot of innovative practices in my school this year, and one of these is the clever use of the "fake" or "imaginary" student to organize and filter student work on Seesaw. The purpose of this post is to showcase this hidden feature that all Seesaw users should familiarize themselves with. Classroom News Imaginary … Continue reading Seesaw Trick: The Imaginary Student
Using Keynote to Teach the Scientific Method
I love teaching science to my students. You get to play, use your hands, and discover new things. For those of you who aren't teachers, I have to emphasis how incredibly fun this actually is. I spent an hour today with my students fashioning scissors, raising flags on pulley systems, clicking together wheel barrels and … Continue reading Using Keynote to Teach the Scientific Method
Easy-Peasy Way to Give Great Links to Students
Sometimes the most useful tools are also the simplest. This rings true with e-link. I've already talked about e-link in the past, and I am happy to say that I am still using it. It is the easiest way I have found to give students a bunch of great URLs on one, quick embeddable webpage. Here … Continue reading Easy-Peasy Way to Give Great Links to Students
My Week of Professional Learning #AEC2016
Stephanie and I had the pleasure of enjoying five days of amazing #AfricaEd at the AISA 2016 Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. If you ever have the chance to attend the AISA conference, either by your own dime or your school's, I highly recommend it. Here are the links to all five posts that I … Continue reading My Week of Professional Learning #AEC2016
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