SLO's and WebTools

Through out my county and state, teachers are being asked to create Student Learning Obejctives (SLO) which are used to not only improve student acheivement but to also evaluate teachers.  In addition, each SLO needs to be aligned with at least one common core standard from math or reading and standards from the teachers content area.  While constructing my SLO, I have been working out ways to incorporate technology besides using word processing (they will writing a persuasive letter).  I have been thinking about using a webtools as a way to prepare my students for the upcoming assessment.

What webtools have you used in your classes that prepare students for your assessments?  Do you feel they are effective?

Flipped Classrooms

Since our group presentation topic is Flipped Classroom, I wanted to see who has actually used Flipped Classrooms before.  The physics teacher at my school uses this style of teaching and many of the students I have spoken to love this approach.  They view the topic of discussion the evening before they have class and then answer questions that go along with the presentaion.  They said it is great because you can move at your own pace. 

Michele

My first post

My name is Michele Bodine and this is the first time I have posted a blog. It will definately be interesting have my thoughts and feelings recorded for others to read.  Although I am not too found of writing (I prefer speaking my thoughts instead of writing them), I feel that this blog can be a great tool to use with my health classes.  We are constantly talking about current events that occur throughout different topics in the health curriculum.  What better way to be able to constantly have my students aware of "what's new in health" (as we like to call it) than having a blog that will be shared with all of my students.  They can leave comments about the events that I have included and/or include a current event that they have heard about.  The blog will be  great way for my classes to interact with each.

 

Michele