Classroom

We strive to create a classroom environment where our students feel comfortable, safe, and invested, which encourages and builds confidence in their learning!

Some of the things we utilize/do to encourage our students to "buy into" our course are:


 * High expectations
 * High content/different delivery
 * Lab-based and activity-based hands-on learning
 * Agenda/Homework on board
 * Birthday Calendar/Announcements
 * Frequent assessment feedback
 * Smarties: exams
 * Highlighters (reading strategies)
 * Homework passes/Bathroom passes
 * Post work/projects on boards/ceilings
 * Stickers/stamps
 * Student exemplars
 * Holidays/Seasonal Clings/Decorations
 * Survival Packets/Rules of the Road
 * Hall Passes: Crab/Elephant/Turtle
 * Mutliple assessments


 * Secrets to Success: **


 * Appeal to multiple learning styles and intelligences
 * Know yourself: look to yourself/your methods, rather than blame students
 * Move outside your comfort zone
 * Assess students through multiple means: projects, written assignments, discussions, labs, tests and quizzes
 * Persistence
 * Self-Reflection
 * Keep detailed lesson plans with suggestions and comments for the future
 * Learn from experienced teachers and others who interact with students
 * Build a community outside your classroom
 * Save student work from year to year
 * Preparation…Preparation…Preparation!
 * Work as a team with other teachers when possible; share duties
 * Connect class content to students’ lives, cultures, and experiences
 * Create a file to save all the positive things from students, parents, and administrators.