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The Walk and Talk

I love to give students time to talk to one another during class in order to develop their ideas and learn more about what others are thinking. I also love to give students time to walk around during class, because we spend too much time sitting! This is why I do the walk and talk. Here's  a video of the talk stage: Here are the steps: introduce the topic, concepts, or ideas we are talking about. This may be an upcoming project, a unit we completed, favourite methods for doing multiplication, whether Romeo and Juliet were in 'true love', or any other topic of interest. (optional) talk about the idea in table groups -when students are sitting in groups they feel particularly safe with, this can be an important stage of idea development (optional) briefly Google, journal, doodle, or think about the topic  put on some music and walk (or dance) around pause the music and get kids to talk to someone near them who is not in their table group.  in my classes I so...
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Design Unit Baseball Cards with Autocrat

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Our Secondary MYP Design Team has just added the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards 3-7 (knowledge constructor, innovative designer, computational thinker, creative communicator, global collaborator) in the hopes that they will help us to improve the alignment of our units and ensure that students are developing relevant skills and understandings to the highest possible level when they follow the Design Curriculum at ISPP. Now that we have our MYP framework and ISTE Standards, it is time to review our units and decide what to keep, what to modify, and what to turn into a paper airplane and let fly. Because we have our units entered in ManageBac, we are able to export a spreadsheet with information about each unit. The spreadsheet, however, is not conducive to collaborative conversation and integrating movement and physical tangibility in our valuable meeting time. Thus, I have created a Google Merge document using Autocrat  that creates Unit B...
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