Start the New Year on the Right Foot!

Help your students understand the importance of self-reflection and goal setting. Through continued reflection and growth, your students will develop grit, resilience, and problem solving skills that will serve them well in their academic life and beyond!

Reflect & Create a Vision

• Check out this great self-reflection & goal setting free printable from MathGiraffe.
• Help students think about their vision for the year by reading this article from BetterLesson.com.

Set SMART Goals

• Read this article from WeAreTeachers with excellent ideas for encouraging goal setting in your classroom!
• Check out these goal setting & progress monitoring resources from Denver Public Schools Innovation Lab.
• Watch a video example of a teacher discussing SMART goals with her students.
• Here are a few goal setting resources for kindergarten, elementary, and secondary students respectively.

Discuss Growth Mindset

• Read this article from LexiaLearning on "6 Tips for Developing the Growth Mindset in Your Classroom."
• Check out the webinar options below on developing the growth mindset.
  • How Teaching Growth Mindset Leads to Student Success (createabilities.com)
  • Growth Mindset with Khan Academy
    

Consider these quick steps to plan differentiated lessons and use them to help you implement some new strategies after the New Year!

 

Step 1 PRE-ASSESSMENT: A pre-assessment of your students is crucial to help you understand how each student understands new material.

• Watch this video on the use of exit tickets that help teachers pre-assess and plan.
• Examples: 5 Question Quiz, KWL Chart, Journal, Mind Map, Frayer Diagram
• Tips: Explain to students what you plan to do with the results and why this is important.

Use questions or prompts that gauge their understanding of the main goals or points of the unit.

Keep it simple!

Step 2 CONTENT & PROCESS: Once you have a clear understanding of where each student is starting the unit, consider using a learning menu or a choice board to vary the complexity and the process of learning. This can also be a great way to reach not only struggling students, but also to challenge high achieving students.

 

 

Watch this video on Learning Menus.

Congratulations to our Mars regolith contest winner Mrs. C. Ross from Broward County!

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Congratulations to the following winners: Denise Johnson- Fort Myers, FL;

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Lakeshore Science Materials Winners

1. Angel Schreiber - Fort Myers Christian School
2. Samantha Owens - Ocala Preparatory Academy
3. Barbara Kennedy - BB & C Christian Academy
4. Guerson Mesadieu - Murl Windsor Academy
5. Diane Rustan - Sacred Heart School
6. Juli Ferguson - St. Joseph Catholic School
7. Jeremy Sossong - Ocala Preparatory Academy
8. Ashley Plat
   

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