I decided that before I can start posting about what I'm doing this year, I needed to share some of my favorite strategies from last year that went really well with the students. I was completely inspired by Kelly Gallagher after reading devouring all of his books at the beginning of the school year! I had the opportunity to go to a Kelly Gallagher workshop at Judson this spring, and it was absolutely amazing! He was so nice when I went up to him (I was terrified and starstruck), and even wrote "You're Welcome" on this piece of paper, because my students actually asked me to THANK HIM for changing the way we read novels in class. Students + asked me + to say thank you to an author + about school stuff = UTOPIA! Here are some of my abbreviated notes from the day: His TOP Points: Kids should write 4X more than you can physically grade Students suffer from word poverty. Must get students reading more in order to be exposed to vocabulary. We ne
Are you aware that you have the word verification thing turned on here as well? I'm guessing no because why would you comment on your own blog? I agree with you though, I loathe them. Often I can't read the word right and I can't get my comment to post after multiple attempts, so I give up. I sure hope it works this time.
ReplyDeleteNow that just figures, lol! I was actually thinking as I posted this, "hmm..I hope mine doesn't do that." I'm going to go figure out how to change it right now!! Thanks for the heads up :)
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