A coaching client asks: How to handle a kid wanting to go to the bathroom/nurse to avoid a game or interactive activity in class? FVR- How do you manage to keep the books organized so that kids can find their books the next time they go to read them? [...]
Sarah, a Spanish teacher who has been using some of our self-assessment tools for students (such as the Independent Reading Rubric, the Interpersonal Communication Self-Assessment, this Higher Level Thinking Assessment Example, and this Higher Level Thinking Book Report Example) writes: . Hi Bryce, Do you put the self assessment [...]
This just-published unit can be the first full story of the school year for a Spanish I class. It can be told at the beginning of the second or third week of class, or it can be saved until later. It explains how to get students reading right away. [...]
Once reading has been interrupted, it takes time to re-focus, so maybe we should take some advice from an old rock band: TIME NECESSARY TO REFOCUS AFTER INTERRUPTIONS • 23 Minutes: Mark, Gloria, The Cost of Interrupted Work https://www.ics.uci.edu/~gmark/chi08-mark.pdf • 15 Minutes: Vasicek, Brent (2011). Squirrel! Distractions in the [...]
We may need to hold back our enthusiasm for constant assessment a bit more... .
See a sample weekly schedule that includes time for regular reading aloud time here. ...