I am working on my gifted endorsement for my state teaching certificate right now. I am also teaching gifted classes for the first time this year. I love it so much, but I can definitely feel myself stretching. For instance, I just wrote a lesson plan for my class in the New American Lecture format.… Continue reading Stretching Exercises
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Now for something completely different
Yesterday, I explained how I taught the water cycle to my traditional science class. Today, the water cycle was on the agenda from my gifted science class. From discussions last week with my gifted classes, I knew that these students have pretty extensive background knowledge of the water cycle. All I needed to do was… Continue reading Now for something completely different
What does this have to do with. . .
Every lesson that I teach revolves around an essential question. All teachers at my school do this, and students have become accustomed to having an essential question totalling relating to the day’s lesson. Today, my EQ was, “How does water move through the hydrologic cycle?” Last week, we discussed the global distribution of water. Today’s… Continue reading What does this have to do with. . .