Fab Find Friday: Inspiring Quotes and Tech/Instructional Tips for Teachers
At our last faculty meeting, we put some inspiring quotes and tech/instructional tips (WICOR, Fundamental Five, Instructional Strategies, and Instructional Tech Tips) for our teachers. Here they are-
Quotes and Verses | Instructional Tips & Instructional Tech Tips |
“Trust yourself that you can do it and get it.” – Baz Luhrmann. | In Classroom Screen, add a picture of a vacation or something you have done recently in the background to spark conversation in your classroom. Students want to hear stories about your life to know you are human too. |
Celebrate your small wins. | Use the exit ticket- One thing I feel that I have accomplished this class period is ____________________. |
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
| Use the WICOR strategy “Talking Chips” to get everyone in your class talking. |
“A negative mind will never give you a positive life.” – Unknown
| Have students create a one page on what you just taught or what they just read non-digitally or digitally using Jamboard or Canva. |
“Everything is hard before it is easy.” – Goethe
| Play catch the slip up. Put two correct answers and one wrong answer on the board, and have students catch the “slip up” answer. |
“Take the risk or lose the chance.” – Unknown
| Review with a game of Blooket. You can use a stack already created on Quizlet to import into the game, so you are not creating it from scratch. |
The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes; so it is with every one who is born of the Spirit. John 3:8 | Exit Ticket Idea with sentence stem: One thing I learned today is __________________________. |
Though the mountain may crumble you will not. Isaiah 54:10 | Use Slides Mania (free website) to find awesome Google Slide and Microsoft Powerpoint templates. |
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. CS Lewis |
Marking the text (aka annotating) is proven research to help students have a deeper understanding of what they have read. |
My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better. Steve Jobs | Fundamental Five states that after 10-15 minute teacher talk, let students have a purposeful talk. |
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar | Do you know Brenham High School has the paid version of BrainPop (video collection on tons of topics) and EdPuzzle (embeds questions into the videos you make)? |
It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great! Tom Hanks - A League of Their Own | Recognize and reinforce (F5) the small wins by your students. |
My colleague, Amanda, took these and put them on Google Slides to make them easier to print and hang in the meeting. Check it out here- Slides of Quotes and Tips
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