Teacher Leader and Instructional Coaches Network Quarterly Planning Meeting May 18, 2015 10:00 AM Edmond Administration Building Edmond, OK Host: Robbyn Glinsmann [email protected] A small group of us have been working to get this network started and we are excited to grow the network. Who should come? If you are a teacher leader, even if […]
Talk about math. Talk about anything you like about math. Talk about it anywhere, with anyone. Tell them why it’s great. Tell them how you think. Tell them how it surprises you, how it charms you, and how it all fits together. Kids Love to talk! We talk about our reading, our writing, our science, […]
I have a new obsession…. have you met Thinglink? You can make images interactive…the possibilities are blowing my mind! Below is a picture of a bulletin board in Mrs. Winthers class. I uploaded the photo onto the website and clicked on the picture, much like tagging a picture in Facebook, and I typed in more […]
The long awaited resources… … well long if you were in one of the first sessions. Not so much if yours was this week! The tour is almost over. It is bittersweet to know we are wrapping up the PASS Plus Academies. It has been an amazing journey meeting educators around the state. You are […]
We are currently doing workshops for Math and ELA across the state. One of the goals for my 3rd - 5th Grade Math session is that teachers work together to create Math Tasks that Promote Real Problem Solving and Reasoning. Once the workshops are over in November, I will focus on getting them all in […]
This is another composition of the resources teachers created this summer. Where the companion guides are centered around one grade level, the focus of these is the vertical alignment. *If you downloaded any of the companion guides or vertical alignment pdfs for 5th grade before 10/3/2014, you will have a mistake on standard 1.3. It […]
“Connect math to real world experiences.” We hear that all the time. All we have to do is think about the most memorable moments in our own learning to realize it was the ideas excited us that got our attention, but it was the concepts and lesson that made sense in our own world, to […]
Oklahoma’s Summer Consortium is a time set aside in the summer for educators to come together, brainstorm for and create resources they would use in their classrooms and then share those with the rest of the state. This year, with HB3399, the educators decided we needed a starter document to refresh our minds about PASS […]
The word “fractions” can immediately strike up fear in any elementary teacher or student. The topic has been very misunderstood because of preconceived notions that students will never really understand it, so fractions were never really given a fair chance to be understood through conceptual and hands-on teaching. With the new Oklahoma Academic Standards, it […]
At the recent OSDE July Convening, a group of amazing elementary educators came together to analyze the needs of OKMath Teachers. This work was a continuation of the great work done in May, where the K-5 Emphasis Documents were developed. (See below.) Recognizing the need for many more resources, the team decided to divide their […]