Previously, I had written about Class Dojo and its place in my classroom. Over the past few days, my class has worked hard to re evaluate the behaviours they had chosen to work with in the classroom. Previously we had negotiated 6 positive behaviours and 6 negative behaviours. All of which are listed below.
Our Class Behaviours
100% Student Negotiated, 100% Student Owned.
Today, my students asked if we could look at the behaviours...
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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Oct
TECHNOLOGY FRIDAYS! Made for Children by Children
TECHNOLOGY FRIDAYS!
My students wanted to develop a space of time we set aside each week to learn how to use ICLT's in our classroom.
I have stated previously that I work with a class of 26 students. Over the course of the year I have developed a massive amount of respect for the 5-year-old learners in my classroom. As expected, we encounter technology in our classroom every day. We experience it in our daily routines, we experience...
Sunday, October 9, 2011
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9
Oct
Class Dojo: Building Positive Classrooms in Realtime
Everything we do is behaviour. I sometimes struggle to understand my own behaviour and I have had years of practice at monitoring, assessing and managing it. One thing I have noticed as a teacher is that once you put a class of children together, everything is multiplied.
I have questioned myself many times on the fairness of pushing 26 or so students into a classroom context and expecting them to manage and negotiate their own behaviours....
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