Fab Find Friday: Inspiring Quotes and Tech/Instructional Tips for Teachers

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