We’ll still accept blue bucks but will change them to green for Tri2 in order to signal the new term and symbolically/visually revamp the bucks.
11/28 Behavior Expectations Review
Slideshow for Tuesday morning (work in progress).
11/30 Individual Reading Day
This week’s article should be an interesting one: Should students be paid for performance in school?
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11/20 Behavior Expectations Review
We’re going to keep with the theme of conflict resolution for one more week and put together the pieces we’ve talked about so far. Those being:
- What to do/not to do in a conflict
- My part in de-escalating conflicts (emotional intelligence)
This week, I’m going to provide scenarios, and you will have the opportunity to talk about ways to resolve the conflicts in those scenarios with your students.
Here’s the slideshow (work in progress): https://goo.gl/WrVTEv
[UPDATED] November Breakfast of Champions
There’s a Breakfast of Champions this month after all! The event is scheduled for November 30th at 8:15-8:45am in the library, and the theme is Always Engaged. These are the students who are always focused, listening actively, participating, and just generally paying attention in class.
Please nominate students under the November tab here: https://goo.gl/68t4B7. I’ll send out a reminder again when the day draws near.
Thank you all so much and let me know if you have any questions!
11/14 Behavior Expectations Review: Conflict Resolution Part 2
11/16 Individual Reading Day
If there are no objections, I thought we could change this week’s article to the one embedded below. This article might be more useful given some of the behaviors we’ve seen around school recently and may help students become more meta-cognitive about their thoughts and behaviors.
While the article doesn’t go into much detail about the influence of media violence on behavior, it may make for a lively and valuable discussion. Here are some additional articles that effectively present arguments from both sides:
- How do video games, social isolation, and online forums contribute to violence in society?
- Carey, Benedict. “Studying the Effects of Playing Violent Video Games.” The New York Times, 11 Feb. 2013. Web. 7 Oct. 2015.
- Grossman, Dave. Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence. Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1999.
- Gray, Peter. The Many Benefits, for Kids, of Playing Video Games. Psychology Today, 7 Jan. 2012. 7 Oct. 2015.
- “Video Games ProCon.org.” n.d. 7 Oct. 2015.
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11/7 Behavior Expectations Review
11/9 Individual Reading Day
Due to the schedule change last week, not all teachers were able to do the article on bullying; therefore, please continue with the same article this week as well. There are multiple activities that go along with the article that involve discussion, writing, note-taking (a good opportunity to use Notability), and even math/science-related skills. Get creative! The possibilities are endless!
I’ll have hard copies of the article in your boxes tomorrow (Monday), and Caleb will email it to students before Thursday morning.
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Breakfast of Champions Themes [UPDATED]
Here are the tentative themes for the remaining Breakfasts of Champions. Tentative because we are open to suggestions if you have a good one!
- 11/30 – Always engaged (stays focused, participates in class, etc.)
- 1/30 – Exceeds expectations (regularly goes above and beyond expectations on classwork)
- 2/27 – Always looking out for others
- 3/23 – Eternal optimist (looks on the bright side of things, brings positive energy into the classroom)
- 4/30 – Greatest growth (academically and otherwise)
- 5/31 – Strong finish