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Showing posts with label Backwards Planning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Backwards Planning. Show all posts
Monday, July 8, 2013
And the Winner of the Backwards Planning Book is...
Just click here to go and read more about the book!
We already have another giveaway already in place, so if you would like to go and register for it, just click here!
Monday, July 1, 2013
Color My Word Classroom Decor
Anyone that knows me, knows that I love COLOR!!! I found this really cute set of backgrounds and started experimenting with my MS Publisher to see what all I could do. Throw in a little bit of Power Point here and there for some work on the graphics, and this is what I came up with!
Here is a collage of the D'Nealean set. The ZB set looks just like this. Altogether there is at least 230 pages of materials that can be printed. I love this set so much that is has me SERIOUSLY thinking about printing and laminating and putting last year's Tie Dye Set into storage! Anyway, I thought I would share this with you. It is great eye candy!!
Oh, I almost forgot. Here is a mystery freebie that goes with the set if you can use it!
P.S. The Tie Dye Set from last year got a serious rehab, so you may want to check it out also!!
Backwards Planning--Win the book!!
Recently there has been a lot of hubbub about backwards planning in my district and I wanted to make sure that I knew what they were talking about so I purchased this book:
The author, Harriet Isecke, wrote this book as a companion book, or even sort of a "book to turn to" because Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggens and Jay McTighe is so hard to implement. Me...I bought it because I like the cover. Plus, I have used books by Wiggens an McTighe in the past (they were the movers and shaker of standards-based teaching, so thank them for the list of standards you have today!) and knew that they use a lot of jargon-based writing. Not that this is bad...but when it is crunch time and you have to change the way you have thought, you don't need jargon....you need direction. And that is what I found in this book!
Chapter 1 of this book is especially important as it defines 'backwards plannng'. The book unfolds to explain how to plan 'backwards', check for both formative and summative assessments, progress monitoring, and project-based learning. The author also supplies tools to help you get started. I love the way she breaks it all down. I give it 2 thumbs up!
Now for the good part....win this book!!!
The author, Harriet Isecke, wrote this book as a companion book, or even sort of a "book to turn to" because Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggens and Jay McTighe is so hard to implement. Me...I bought it because I like the cover. Plus, I have used books by Wiggens an McTighe in the past (they were the movers and shaker of standards-based teaching, so thank them for the list of standards you have today!) and knew that they use a lot of jargon-based writing. Not that this is bad...but when it is crunch time and you have to change the way you have thought, you don't need jargon....you need direction. And that is what I found in this book!
Chapter 1 of this book is especially important as it defines 'backwards plannng'. The book unfolds to explain how to plan 'backwards', check for both formative and summative assessments, progress monitoring, and project-based learning. The author also supplies tools to help you get started. I love the way she breaks it all down. I give it 2 thumbs up!
Now for the good part....win this book!!!
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