Elissa posted her weekly warm-up schedule, and it inspired me to think about how I want to structure my warm-ups this year. 2014-2015 Weekly Bellwork Schedule Well, I’ve decided on my weekly bellwork schedule for the upcoming school year. This past year, I had 3 special weekly tasks – Good Things Mondays, Weird and …
Posters
I saw this GRIT poster on pinterest, and I decided I had to recreate it for my classroom this year. G – Give it your allR – Redo if necessaryI – Ignore giving upT – Take time to do it right Here’s my typed version of the GRIT Poster. I have formatted this GRIT Poster …
Today’s poster is another idea stolen from Annie Forest that I can’t wait to put up in my classroom! She posted about decorating her classroom for Pi Day, and I decided I needed to steal one of her ideas to decorate my classroom EVERY day. Want more ideas for Pi Day? Check out this round-up …
Today I want to share some math symbols posters I created If you get annoyed by blog posts about posters I’ve created for my classroom, you might want to avoid my blog for the next few days. Let’s just say I’ve gone a little poster crazy the past few days and created a heap of …
Today I’m sharing a Types of Errors Poster I created. This year I’m making lots of tiny changes to my classroom. Still doing notebooks. But, I’m letting students use their notebooks on their quizzes. And, our notebooks are going to have a heap more worked examples in them. Still doing SBG. But, I’m changing the …
The idea for this Keep Calm and Combine Like Terms poster is completely unoriginal. In other words, I completely stole it from Annie Forest at Show Your Thinking. When I saw her post a few months ago, I knew this had to find a place in my classroom decorations for the new school year. I …
After a few weeks of relaxing and traveling, preparation for the next school year is in full swing. I’m the crazy type of person who likes doing school stuff during the summer because I can do it at my own pace without a million deadlines looming in front of me. I can stop to read …
One of my absolute favorite concepts in the world to teach is slope. I don’t know what it is about slope, but I have an absolute blast convincing students that slope doesn’t have to be scary. Plus, it involves introducing them to Slope Dude. And, in my book, any lesson that makes the slightest mention …
Today I’m sharing a free prime numbers poster to download. I have so many ideas of how I would teach things/do things if life was ideal. And, by ideal, I mean I could pause time occasionally and get 100% caught up with my to do list. I’m pretty sure I have no idea what …
I’m excited to share a new What Zone Are You In poster with you today. So, it’s Saturday morning. I told myself that I was going to spend all day Saturday working on getting all of my activities planned, quizzes written, and copies made for the upcoming week. Let’s see. I’ve finished a novel this …
Okay, today I’m sharing yet another idea I stole from Ilana Horn’s Strength in Numbers: Collaborative Learning in Secondary Mathematics. You could say I’m kinda obsessed with this book. I’m feeling so much better at attempting group work in my classroom after reading this book. To encourage student conversation during group work time, the author …
I created a YET poster to hang in my classroom. This poster was inspired by Ilana Horn’s Strength in Numbers: Collaborative Learning in Secondary Mathematics. In the book, Ilana Horn talks about how the word “yet” is missing from our students’ vocabularies. If a student says, “I can’t do this,” we need to correct them. …
Today, I want to share some please and thank you posters I created for my classroom. These are words I want to hear more in my classroom. I decided if these words are that important to me, they need to be on display in my classroom as a reminder to myself and to my students. …
This will be my first year to assign roles during group work. Maybe this is where I’ve gone wrong with group work over the past two years. I decided to design a set of group work roles posters that could be hung on the wall to remind everybody (including myself) what the responsibilities are of …
This is going to be the year that I master classroom management. Okay, maybe I won’t master it. But, I hope I won’t fail at it. I really liked these quotes about who starts and ends class from Harry Wong’s The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher. So, I decided …
These Algebra Aerobics Stick Figure Posters are a fun way to display the different types of parent functions in your classroom. These posters are a free resource provided by OKMathTeachers.com. The OKMath website has a pdf file you can download of 15 different full page stick figure equations. Sadly, the graph of y=sin x …
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. Zig Ziglar Free Poster Download – Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. Looking for more posters? Check out my posters page!
All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney Free Poster Download – All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them. Looking for more posters? Check out my posters page!
The only limitations are those you place on yourself and those you allow other people to place on you. Jean Driscoll Free Poster Download – The only limitations are those you place on yourself and those you allow other people to place on you. Looking for more posters? Check out my posters page!
No legacy is so rich as honesty. William Shakespeare Free Poster Download – No legacy is so rich as honesty. Looking for more posters? Check out my posters page!
I love this quote. Fast learning is not always the best and deepest. I have a tendency to praise students in my classroom for answering quickly and correctly. If I truly want to instill a growth mindset in my students, I need to change how I praise my students. I love this quote so …
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein Free Poster Download – In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Looking for more posters? Check out my posters page!
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude of mind. William James Free Poster Download – The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude of mind. Looking for more posters? Check out my …
Life is not a destination. Life is a journey. As long as you continue the journey, you will always be a success. Albert Camus Free Poster Download – Life is not a destination. Life is a journey. As long as you continue the journey, you will always be a success. Looking for more posters? Check …
Successful people make themselves do the things that unsuccessful people will not do. Harry Wong Free Poster Download – Successful people make themselves do the things that unsuccessful people will not do. Looking for more posters? Check out my posters page!