Monday, May 11, 2015

Friday Focus: Teacher Appreciation Week!

Dear Bison Colleagues,
Happy Friday!   As we close out another week at Buffalo Grove HS, I am focused on the topic of Teacher Appreciation!



Teach and Learn with Passion!
Teaching and Learning Quotes: 
“In teaching, you can’t take care of the Bloom stuff until you take care of the Maslow stuff.”—Alan Beck

Danielson Framework for Teaching reminder:
There are 4 domains, 22 components and 76 elements that are considered aspects of a teacher's responsibility as documented through empirical studies.  The 4 domains are:
1. Planning and Preparation
2. The Classroom Environment
3.  Instruction
4.  Professional Responsibilities

Looking at Domain 1: Planning and Preparation
1b: Demonstrating Knowledge of Students
Here's a peek at what "distinguished" looks like for 3b:
Teacher demonstrates thorough knowledge of students’ backgrounds, skills, and interests, and uses this knowledge to plan for individual student learning.

Strategy/Tool to Try: (thanks to ITF Jeff Vlk)
This was recommended from Caili Chu. 

 https://www.goosechase.com/ to set up the game and missions. When you play the "game", you use the app. 

It's really fun and educational.  Highly recommend to use it during field trip.

Each GooseChase game has a list of photo-based missions/tasks for participants to complete. You can create your mission list using our bank of 100+ tested missions or by designing your own from scratch.
Each mission has a name, description and point value, with the option of including a link or a photo to provide information.



Instructional Focus: Teacher Appreciation
Bison Learning Leaders:
  • AMAZING Expressions Big Show 40th Anniversary this weekend!
  • The Badminton and Fishing teams heading to State to compete - Best of Luck!
  • All of our teachers and staff for everything you do for our students every single day! Thank YOU!



Keep up the great work, Bison!  Happy Friday!

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