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Thursday, July 18, 2019
Sunday, July 14, 2019
Help from Friends
Preparing for the Daily CAFE Workshop that starts tomorrow, July 15 to Wednesday July 17, 2019 and am getting messages from the teachers who want to volunteer to bring snacks. Blessed.
To provide some color printing, I have my HP printer on the $10 for 300 pages per month. I think it is a good deal and if any of you want to do it, you can get a month free and I can, too! Hey, it is all for the kids one way or another!
To provide some color printing, I have my HP printer on the $10 for 300 pages per month. I think it is a good deal and if any of you want to do it, you can get a month free and I can, too! Hey, it is all for the kids one way or another!
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Saturday, July 6, 2019
Chatterbox Begins!
Chatterbox is a way that I can organize some of the projects of interest that stimulate brain to learn. My brain needed a way to explore ideas and new technologies as I learn about them or as I teach others, and for now, this is my solution. In studying brain research, I am aware of practices that can enhance learning and others that do not. This is my way to reorganize my thoughts and let others peer into my research and possibly be part of it.
My career includes teaching bilingual students in elementary, science in middle school, Dual-Language Grant Administrator, ELA Curriculum Specialist and now Social Studies Curriculum Specialist. In order to learn more, I am now a doctoral student at UTRGV in Curriculum and Instruction, specializing in Educational Technology. I am interested in everything STEAM related, so I am into Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math and my research will focus on that.
Science: Certified in Science 4th -8th and Secondary Science to 12th
Newbie farmer in La Feria, Texas exploring the "Back to Eden" self-sustainable organic growing
Technology & and Engineering: I know how to build computers with my A+ certification
I have my MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer)
and my MCDBA (Microsoft Certified Database Administrator)
and worked as a computer consultant in Houston until the dot.com fiasco.
Art: I am a singer/songwriter and with my husband, Paul, we are the South Texas Simple Kings.
I paint. I love everything and all the ways human beings express themselves including the word.
Math: Certified in Math 4-8
Each tab in Chatterbox represents an area I am studying or an area that of interest for the professional development of the teachers I serve the in Brownsville ISD. There ways we can help each other grow in this vast array of apps out there that can help with teaching and learning.
Daily CAFE: A reading block organizational plan for Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency and Expanding Vocabulary. This is my labor of love to share what I have learned from the "2 sisters" as they call themselves, Gail Boushey and Joan Moser, who wrote the books, The Daily CAFE and Daily 5 where they explain how to teachers organize their reading block to be a strategic routine for students. Presently in the district, we include some elementary and secondary teachers informally involved in developing our strategies to help their students improve learning together. Teachers are welcome to join the team on One Drive in BISD to learn more.
EdTech Badges: Since I am working on my doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction and specializing in Educational Technology, I thought I should learn the best apps out there to go along with my research. I am determined to earn Apple and Google badges so I am well-rounded and up-to-date with teaching and learning.
Monart: Mona Brookes developed a way to help children draw by noticing patterns in all of what we see in her book, Drawing with Children: A Method for Teachers and Adults, Too. I have used her methods for many years as I taught elementary and secondary and it helped my students remember lessons and feel good about their entries in their journals. Art improves the observation skills to help the brain make sense of new information as it connects and categorizes. Art in all of its forms stimulates the brain's ability to remember and to create new meaning. I decided to learn how to help teachers to learn the basics of Monart, and thereby help stimulate their students' brains learn and remember what they learn. Since I am now assigned to Social Studies, my focus will be on her book, Drawing Thru Geography.
QFT: Question Formulation Technique: Developed by Dan Rosenstein and Luz Santana in their book Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions, Harvard Press. I took the online course by the authors at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and am now teaching and modeling this for others. It is in the new ELA TEKS for students to generate questions themselves. This stimulates the brain's curiosity and students remember better, so their reading comprehension goes up.
Sketchnotes: Journaling and note taking helps the brain to remember. The Cornell Note Taking System is helpful for students and has been in use mostly in colleges since the 1940s. Research backs confirms that writing stimulates the brain as a person writes with pen to paper more than typing on a computer. The movement of the hand with a writing device and the brain telling the muscles in the hand to recall the letter shapes and the words that make meaning is very intensive, so it tends to help the brain remember what was written. With several note taking doodling books out there, I decided to learn from Sylvia Duckworth since it is more about organizing the information received, in addition to the Monart method that is more about observing the environment.
My career includes teaching bilingual students in elementary, science in middle school, Dual-Language Grant Administrator, ELA Curriculum Specialist and now Social Studies Curriculum Specialist. In order to learn more, I am now a doctoral student at UTRGV in Curriculum and Instruction, specializing in Educational Technology. I am interested in everything STEAM related, so I am into Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math and my research will focus on that.
Science: Certified in Science 4th -8th and Secondary Science to 12th
Newbie farmer in La Feria, Texas exploring the "Back to Eden" self-sustainable organic growing
Technology & and Engineering: I know how to build computers with my A+ certification
I have my MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer)
and my MCDBA (Microsoft Certified Database Administrator)
and worked as a computer consultant in Houston until the dot.com fiasco.
Art: I am a singer/songwriter and with my husband, Paul, we are the South Texas Simple Kings.
I paint. I love everything and all the ways human beings express themselves including the word.
Math: Certified in Math 4-8
Each tab in Chatterbox represents an area I am studying or an area that of interest for the professional development of the teachers I serve the in Brownsville ISD. There ways we can help each other grow in this vast array of apps out there that can help with teaching and learning.
Daily CAFE: A reading block organizational plan for Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency and Expanding Vocabulary. This is my labor of love to share what I have learned from the "2 sisters" as they call themselves, Gail Boushey and Joan Moser, who wrote the books, The Daily CAFE and Daily 5 where they explain how to teachers organize their reading block to be a strategic routine for students. Presently in the district, we include some elementary and secondary teachers informally involved in developing our strategies to help their students improve learning together. Teachers are welcome to join the team on One Drive in BISD to learn more.
EdTech Badges: Since I am working on my doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction and specializing in Educational Technology, I thought I should learn the best apps out there to go along with my research. I am determined to earn Apple and Google badges so I am well-rounded and up-to-date with teaching and learning.
Monart: Mona Brookes developed a way to help children draw by noticing patterns in all of what we see in her book, Drawing with Children: A Method for Teachers and Adults, Too. I have used her methods for many years as I taught elementary and secondary and it helped my students remember lessons and feel good about their entries in their journals. Art improves the observation skills to help the brain make sense of new information as it connects and categorizes. Art in all of its forms stimulates the brain's ability to remember and to create new meaning. I decided to learn how to help teachers to learn the basics of Monart, and thereby help stimulate their students' brains learn and remember what they learn. Since I am now assigned to Social Studies, my focus will be on her book, Drawing Thru Geography.
QFT: Question Formulation Technique: Developed by Dan Rosenstein and Luz Santana in their book Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions, Harvard Press. I took the online course by the authors at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and am now teaching and modeling this for others. It is in the new ELA TEKS for students to generate questions themselves. This stimulates the brain's curiosity and students remember better, so their reading comprehension goes up.
Sketchnotes: Journaling and note taking helps the brain to remember. The Cornell Note Taking System is helpful for students and has been in use mostly in colleges since the 1940s. Research backs confirms that writing stimulates the brain as a person writes with pen to paper more than typing on a computer. The movement of the hand with a writing device and the brain telling the muscles in the hand to recall the letter shapes and the words that make meaning is very intensive, so it tends to help the brain remember what was written. With several note taking doodling books out there, I decided to learn from Sylvia Duckworth since it is more about organizing the information received, in addition to the Monart method that is more about observing the environment.
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