5 Ideas

Multicultural Fairytale Collaboration project -- work with Jenn Fitch to create end of year unit and design student projects for her 2nd and 3rd grade class.

Incorporating Google Tools for student response in Edmodo project.  We will be reading The Turtle of Oman in 4th and 5th grade.  Book has a strong sense of place (Oman, Jordan).  Possible projects -- you are leaving for 3 years and can only take one suitcase.  What goes in the suitcase -- we video project.  You are leaving for 3 years -- where do go in VT?  Slides for an ebook?

Forms for checklists and peer assessment rubrics with kids -- have kids generate a list of steps we need to complete a project.  With class -- create a form to use as a checklist that kids track their progress. Peer rubric -- create form that kids use to assess peers during presentations.  Start with 4th grade?

6th grade -- a passion project? and what needs to be fixed project. I do a big unit with 6th grade around robotics and I collaborate with our Spanish teacher on several projects.  I also collaborate with our music teacher (but that may change this year).  I am thinking that I want to do something different with 6th graders.  WeVideo or slides for kids to create a passion project.  That learning serves as some learning for kids to create "A What Needs to be Fixed" project -- a local or global issue.  Kids in the end create a site with embedded resources.  The site must include research.

Communication -- redesign my library webpage.  include more ways for community to provide input.  books we should have.  evening events we could include?

A PD plan -- a plan for leveraging data sorting features in sheets with staff.

Do Google Educator Certification.