1st Week of November

DOK - Growth Mindset

Tweet of the Week MAMS_PrincipalNov 01, 5:11am via Twitter for iPhone

Great reflection questions to end the week and help your planning 

#satchat#atplc #edchat #njed #cechat 

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Do you have a growth mindset?  Learning is about growing through failure not success.  To find out, I encourage you to read Bill Ferriter's blog below and watch the video at the end.  I rarely say that something is unbelievably amazing, but this concise post (which was unbelievably amazing) fixed my mind on what is most important.  It is the growth not the result that determines if we are learning.  If we can condition ourselves first to become fixated on the growth we are making in our craft as opposed to being fixated on meeting a specific level of mastery, then I am confident that we will be more successful at conditioning our kids to develop the same mindset.  After all, learning is about growth not mastery.

Bill Ferriter's - This is What a Growth Mindset Looks Like

STAAR Updates

Evelyn C. is creating a Google Slide
presentation with her classmate who is working on the
same project from another computer.
#TechCollaboration

Here are some links of interest when it comes to STAAR and who can take what test.

• Click on the Testing Calendar tab at the top of this blog to find out when we are taking which test.
• Click on CIA Resources tab at the top to open a Google Doc.  After that, click on the tab at the bottom called STAAR.  It has all the resources that I have found to help you all understand the new changes.
• Writing changes
• STAAR A
• Accommodations
• Math Changes

TIP (Tech Integration Pic) of the Week

By:  Cindy Haston

Several THS teachers are preparing students for college level online learning by utilizing THS Moodle learning management system.  This is the same platform used by Kilgore College and similar to Blackboard and others used by virtually every major college and university.  THS teachers Wendy Fleming, Melody Ojeda, Trey Miller, Wanda Risner  and Brian Price have been leading the way.   Vilia Payne and Robert Galloway have also discovered the benefits to their students of having anytime access to course material and are quickly getting on board, especially in courses such as Pharmacy Tech and Dual Credit US History.  Currently 75% of THS students are taking advantage of round-the-clock access to course content using Moodle for at least one of their classes.

Blog of the Week

Teaching Between the Desks via @ASCD

Encouraging Intrinsic Motivation in your Students via @edudemic

Leah Moake is teaching her kids
about sequencing by making pancakes.
#RealWorldApplication

Kelly Sorenson's students are "liking"
character selfies created by their peers.
Students had to identify character traits and
draw an illustration. #Relevance

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