PAR-FourPortable, Available, Relatable, Flexible

Outstanding Use of Resources

A Presentation by Shannon Colburn

Portable

Use technology to make your life simpler; it is not intended just for your students

Ask yourself, “Is this the most compact way to perform this particular task?”

Great Tools

Wiki

Research Pleasers

Consultative Services Guided Book Studies

Great Tools

Google Docs

BYOD

Ipad Aps (Three Ring)

Remind 101

Practical Tips

Create Small Centers/Activities Lego Education

Musical Instruments

Use what you have around you There are many, varied, and unusual ways

to complete most tasks

Available

Know what resources are available at each school site; If general education teachers can use it, then you can too.

Don’t be proud-beg, borrow, and steal (with permission of course) ideas from others.

Chalk Talk

Resource Bank At School

Ipad CartFace time for collaborative grouping

Video Game EquipmentRewards and Units of Study

Resource Bank At School

Media CentersEasy set up and Use

Math and Science LabsMicroscopes and other equipment for

free

Community Resource Bank

Use parent surveys and questionnaires

Ask businesses what they have to offer-many offer services for free

Contact local area schools and universities

Teacher Resources

Be a person other people will like

Compliment when appropriate

Ask for help-Usually people are flattered

Take photos of COOL ideas and tips to make your life easier.

Use ideas from one another.

Relatable

Do your teaching methods create bonding with your students and the school in which you teach?

Is there any overlap?

Programs and Initiatives

Dr. Steven CoveyThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

& The Leader In Me

Larry Bell12 Powerful Words

The Six Traits

Ticket Hunt

Speak the Same Language

Your MUST relate to your students. If you want them to be creative, then

you must model creative thinking also.

Teaching is NOT about your comfort level.Teach outside of the box.

Trixie and KipperStopping crime one dog at a time

Communicate

You MUST connect in some way to what the rest of the school is doing.Often times there is a theme to begin

each new year. If not a theme, then some unifying factor.

Plug into your surroundings.

“It all comes back to learning.”

Support Your Schools

Actively show interest in what your schools are doing. Visit classrooms for special events.Brag on students that you don’t teach. Invite classes to special events you

host in your classroom.Know your specials.Smile and speak to EVERYONE!

Flexible

Plan for broad and open curriculum via concept based units.

Be accepting of each school as it is; they will all be different, and that’s okay.

Adapt daily to your students needs and interests.

Concept Based Units

Use broad, global concepts i.e. influences, diversity, balance

Embed topics of interests into the global concepts

Link and Overlap topics when possible

Differentiation

Use extension menus to differentiate instruction.Allow students to explore Bloom’s when creating possible product lists.Use Project-Based LearningAssess differently with RubricsRubistar

Differentiation

Use Portfolios as a tool of self reflection for the students and a means of assessing what they have learned.

Teaching with Talent’s Unlimited is a means to get students’ thinking differently from one another.

Brain Breaks

Fun, Exciting, and a way to RELATE!

Bring the outside world into your classroom.

Sell your style

Teach the way you feel the most comfortable, NOT what you feel most comfortable.

Pull from your strengths.

Be willing to try something new; you never know…you might like it.

Words to Live By

Not every child has an equal talent of an equal ability or equal motivation, but children have the equal right to develop their talent, their ability, and their motivation.

-John F. Kennedy

Exit Tickets

3 things that you learned today

2 things that you will try

1 question that you still have