I’m so excited, I’ve reached a blogging milestone… 100 Followers!! I started this blog at the start of January 2012 after inspiration from an ICT class I attended in university. It was my New Year’s Resolution to keep a blog to reflect on what I was learning through my university classes and about a new strategy I had learned, Whole Brain Teaching. Since then it has become so much more! I’ve learned so much and have been able to network with so many amazing teachers out there from all over the world. To celebrate I’ve been… Read More
One Lovely Blog Award Love
About a week ago I posted that I had received the One Lovely Blog Award from Becca at Fun 4th Resources! I have been so blessed to be receiving these awards lately and I had so much fun nominating 15 other wonderful blogs to be a part of this with me. Since that time I have been re-awarded this blog award from Jill at History Teacher WBT! As the title of her blog suggests Jill is a History teacher who is also using WBT strategies in her classroom, just like me! I’m pretty sure we were meant to… Read More
Resources to Start Off Your Week (Update!)
Two weeks ago I first posted about the PBLU website (I copied the original post below) and I wanted to let you know that this website has officially launched!! Free online classes start up at the end of July so head on over and check it out 🙂 PBLU: Making Projects Click– This new online social network for teachers is fully centered on Project Based Learning. Although it has yet to officially launch (it says on the website Summer 2012) it should be a great resource for all of us to connect with other teachers, share… Read More
The Versatile Blog Award
I am so excited, I came home last night to find that Diane from Schoolhouse Treasures has awarded my blog the Versatile Blog Award! This is my 4th blog award in less than a month! 🙂 Diane hasn’t been blogging for long but she has shared some great classroom project ideas that I definitely recommend you check out! My favourite has to be her classroom’s Mosaic Area Projects. To keep the love going, here are the rules: 1 ) Thank the blogger who nominated you.2 ) Include a link to their site. 3 ) Include the award image… Read More
WBT Blog Bug Finds
We (Misty, Melissa and I) have been working hard and have found some new WBT Blogs to add to our resource list! Trust me, this is only a taste of the WBT Blogs that we’ve found. The problem is finding the time to write about all of them. So watch for more coming soon 🙂 First, some updates to the WBT Blogs that were already on my list… * Updated link for Teaching – Another Day in Paradise with WBT– http://adipteaching.blogspot.ca/ * Updated info, Whole Brain Teaching– Staci is a WBT Intern for the 2011/2012 year!– http://wbtblogger.blogspot.ca/ and now to the… Read More
Whole Brain Teaching Wednesday! Gestures
“Signs are to eyes what words are to ears. “- Ken Glickman At the core of many WBT strategies is the use of hand gestures while teaching to solidify main concepts/idea/vocabulary. If you have ever watched any of Chris Biffle’s lesson videos on the WBT website or their YouTube Channel you’ll notice that he gestures almost the entire time he speaks! Before we go any further, I want to clarify that WBT encourages the incorporation of effective iconic/representational and metaphoric gestures that are meant to portray a thought or idea as compared to deictic gestures that are used in pointing. What I’ve… Read More
WBT Certification Update!
So a week has gone by since I shared that I am working my way towards becoming an official Whole Brain Teaching Certified Instructor and I am happy to say that it is going AMAZING! If you are new to my blog, I blog every Wednesday in a post called Whole Brain Teaching Wednesday. These posts cover everything from my experiences with WBT in the classroom and how WBT strategies relate to what I am learning in my university courses to information on specific WBT strategies and how they work in the classroom. Turns out, these posts are exactly the… Read More
Substitute Teaching in "T-Division" 4
Last Friday I was very fortunate to be called in to substitute teach in “T-Division” again! If you missed some of my earlier posts I am working full-time with Children’s disABILITY Services this summer but I asked for every Friday off so I could still have opportunities to substitute teach and network within the school divisions in our area. In our area, school is done this week so I knew that Friday would be my last time to substitute teach this year and I am really happy I was able to get one last day before school is out.… Read More
Resources to Start Off Your Week 23
This week I found two awesome resources to start off your week! One is the perfect one-stop-shop for adding new ideas into your classroom and the other is a great new way to use Google! As always, I will be adding these to my ever-growing list of ed resources under my Fav Websites page. 1 ) Teacher Tipster– Organized by Dustin Smith, Teacher Tipster is a jackpot of helpful tips for teachers including lesson plans, classroom management strategies, classroom organization, printables and videos. – The Teacher Tipster YouTube channel, click the videos tab on the website, has almost 100… Read More
One Lovely Blog Award
I’m so excited to have received ANOTHER blog award! I’d like to thank Becca at Fun 4th Resources for awarding me the One Lovely Blog Award. Becca’s blog is a trove of amazing ed resources and ideas. She has been blogging for almost two years and shares some great classroom project ideas. If you aren’t already one of her almost 600 followers I definitely recommend you stop on over and check her blog out! To keep the love going, here are the rules:1 ) Follow the person that gave you the award if you don’t already2 ) Link… Read More