I participated in the #satchatwc -- a Saturday Morning chat for the west coast. There were a couple of students from Boise State University also there for a chat. There wasn't really a topic to start out with. A professor teaching a grad class called systems leadership at NLU was the first to say he wanted to share about the power of Twitter. He invited everyone to ask questions, so I was the first to start asking questions about Special Education and how inclusion works in each of their schools. That kicked off a really great discussion with teachers sharing what happens at each of their schools. I had the most questions, and the teachers taking the class at BSU talked about what happens at each of their schools. They teach 6th grade at middle school and I teach special education for students K-3.
Our district has been urging us to include a continuum of placements for special education, and I've struggled with how to work a schedule for my students who are self-contained, those who need pull-out for a short period of time, and then trying to then schedule inclusion periods for me to come into their classroom. My principal has been really supportive of constructing a schedule to fit into a master schedule and line up with Title 1 services, but he doesn't urge me to include an inclusion class or set of classes within that schedule. I was trying to get ideas from the group. The chat is scheduled for an hour, I think, but we chatted past the hour. I may participate in another set of chats this week to give myself more experience with using this as part of my PLN. I plan on visiting #tlap because a couple of years ago our district had the Author of How to Teach Like a Pirate as our speaker for our opening of the school year district meeting. I've since bought the book and have been trying to do more to incorporate what he taught.
I also wanted to check out #edchat and #utedchat, but wanted to do one early just in case they didn't have it this week. I saw an announcement that they weren't having it the last 2 weeks due to the holiday. I was worried that I wouldn't get this assignment done if I waited and found out they weren't having it again next week. I have another class that goes at the same time (Wed. evening). I was afraid I'd miss it. I still want to attempt to participate in those other chats.
Thursday, August 2, 2018
My PLN
Frontline.org -- for at home connection with parents, for content, and differentiation
Facebook.com - for communication with colleagues, parents, etc.
YouTube.com - For content, uploading videos for communication with parents and students or colleagues
Blogger.com - for lesson content, communication and collaboration with students and parents
Pinterest - for idea sharing with all of the above mentioned
Google Classroom - for collaborating with parents and students, and for connection via professional development opportunities
Monday, July 2, 2018
New Logo and links to posters and other new stuff I've made
Thia's Creations
Language Arts
Metacognition
Determining Importance
Parts of a Story
More than Posters -- Questioning response sheets Determining Importance response sheets
Determining Importance
Parts of a Story
More than Posters -- Questioning response sheets Determining Importance response sheets
Mathematics
Organizational Tools
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Right-Brain Handwriting Experiment
It's been YEARS since I last posted something, but I'm really excited about my new project!
Since I've been working for over ten years in Special Ed. and I also have my art background, I've been playing around with a handwriting project. In my years of teaching, I've notice that handwriting is the one area that my students struggle with the most, it's the thing that they hate the most, and I, for the most part, cope with the problem and hope that my kiddos' handwriting will just get better on it's own.
NO MORE!
I wanted to use art to make handwriting practice fun for my kids. So, I've created a few products on teachers pay teachers (which is where most of my products are now.) But, I have some free items as samplers. My long term goal is to create an entire program/packet. I don't really know if what I'm doing constitutes a "program". I'm not scripting anything, but I probably will work out a script that I use on my own and publish it in the future. For right now this is just a set of worksheets that are CUTE, and I have categorized each set of letters by shape. There are circle first letters, pull-down letters, letters that use slant lines, and curved letters.
I've been having my students practice using Zaner-Bloser methods of letter formation, and right now I'm just focusing on lowercase letters, since those are what my students struggle with the most. I hope you like the samples. I'm going to be creating all of the letter worksheets and then putting it all together in a packet for my store, but here's a link to the samplers:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sampler-Right-Brain-Handwriting-circle-first-letters-2487698
And, as I always do on this website, here are some free posters (which are the same ones as are on my teacher pay teachers website.)
Thanks!
Since I've been working for over ten years in Special Ed. and I also have my art background, I've been playing around with a handwriting project. In my years of teaching, I've notice that handwriting is the one area that my students struggle with the most, it's the thing that they hate the most, and I, for the most part, cope with the problem and hope that my kiddos' handwriting will just get better on it's own.
NO MORE!
I wanted to use art to make handwriting practice fun for my kids. So, I've created a few products on teachers pay teachers (which is where most of my products are now.) But, I have some free items as samplers. My long term goal is to create an entire program/packet. I don't really know if what I'm doing constitutes a "program". I'm not scripting anything, but I probably will work out a script that I use on my own and publish it in the future. For right now this is just a set of worksheets that are CUTE, and I have categorized each set of letters by shape. There are circle first letters, pull-down letters, letters that use slant lines, and curved letters.
I've been having my students practice using Zaner-Bloser methods of letter formation, and right now I'm just focusing on lowercase letters, since those are what my students struggle with the most. I hope you like the samples. I'm going to be creating all of the letter worksheets and then putting it all together in a packet for my store, but here's a link to the samplers:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sampler-Right-Brain-Handwriting-circle-first-letters-2487698
And, as I always do on this website, here are some free posters (which are the same ones as are on my teacher pay teachers website.)
Thanks!
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Teachers Pay Teachers
I just opened up an account at Teachers Pay Teachers. Many of the items on this blog will be on there. You can still access the posters here for free in their low bandwidth, jpeg versions, but you can pay to get them in the form of clipart or in pdf form which will give you a lot more options in terms of print size.
Please continue to enjoy the free posters. Some of my posters that were not my original idea will not be on there or will be on for free.
My Alias is Stevie Wonderson
Thanks for following my blog.
Please continue to enjoy the free posters. Some of my posters that were not my original idea will not be on there or will be on for free.
My Alias is Stevie Wonderson
Thanks for following my blog.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Sunday, September 8, 2013
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