Going Google for a Digital Filing System

I have already started planning for my sixteenth year of teaching. Each year I get excited for a new beginning...creating a theme, decorating my classroom, and integrating new ideas and strategies to ensure overall student success.

I began my plans with my curriculum this time. I know I want to do Standard Based Grading, integrate technology, literacy, and PBL into my lessons. I am using Google Drive as my digital filing cabinet. Since we are a 1:1 school, I can easily share links to students for all assignments. I am dedicated to going Paperless this year. So here is my set-up...

Each unit students will have a set of vocabulary words to know. I will digitally give students the link to the entire folder. Vocabulary words will be reinforced with weekly activities. (Subscribe so you won't miss these activities).

Last year we did an Interactive Notebook. This year we will do a Digital Interactive Notebook. I will share QRs (Quick References) with students for each lesson. Students will create their own Google Drive Folder to keep their QRs in. This will be something they always have and can easily assess as they continue through their high school math courses. 

Last year as my Blended Learning/Flipped Classroom component, I did videos for students. My students gave mixed reviews on these videos. So this year I decided to do PowerPoint lessons with video tutorials provided to help assist students. I think we will use Khan Academy and/or Virtual Nerd as our video tutorials.

Everything will be filed using Google Drive. Allowing me the opportunity to go Paperless. Our school has a contract with Schoology, which allows easy integration of Google Drive documents. Students will submit their assignments via Schoology or through their shared Google Drive class folder.

Here's how to set-up your Google Drive Filing Cabinet:

Educator's Technology provides  great resource for setting up Google Drive.

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Thanks to Henrico Algebra 1 Online, Quizlet, Slack Math and Algebra Class, their resources helped me provide H-O-P-E for my students success! 

HOPE - Having Opportunities to Pursue Excellence - Success Plan

In the past few months, I have been excited to try a few strategies to ensure my students' overall success in Math 1. My principal introduced me to several of these strategies and I creatively selected parts of them to create the ultimate educational success plan for my students.

These strategies will be shared in my resource guide that will be released this summer...

HOPE Success Plan! 

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All of the strategies that I implemented had one unique factor...the opportunities it provided students to have HOPE. Each strategy uniquely gave students a sense that even if they failed at a certain task, they had the opportunity to reach success.

These HOPE Opportunities built resilience in my students. It was amazing how hard they work and the data showed it. In our district, Benchmarks are given three times during the semester. Our first Benchmark assessment was given during the first three weeks of school, after the first Benchmark, I began to implement my success plan. The amazing growth my students made on Benchmark 2 was phenomenal.

I can't wait to share the HOPE Success Plan Resource Guide. This Guide will include strategies, activities, projects, reproducibles, and more.  

If your students struggle in Math and are unmotivated to learn, HOPE Success Plan! will definitely provide them with the opportunities to help them pursue excellence. 

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PLANKS ~ Projects Linking Academics and Navigating Knowledge and Skills

F.I.T. Exercises Series

A Collection of fun strategies, projects, and activities!

 

P.L.A.N.K.S.

ProjectsLinking Academics and Navigating Knowledge and Skills

I am so honored and blessed to be a part of this educational world. I love discovering and creating new ways to bring math alive in my classroom. My energy and passion for education allows my students to experience mathematics in a creative and innovative way. This new series is a collection of fun strategies, activities, and projects that will help motivate and inspire students to learn math.

Series 1 of our F.I.T. Exercises is our P.L.A.N.K.S. P.L.A.N.K.S. stand for Projects Linking Academics and Navigating Knowledge and Skills. Providing students with projects is a great opportunity to link what they have learn (academics) and navigate how well they can apply that knowledge with their skills to create a final product.

Each of the 9 projects in this series can be adapted to any grade, skill level, and topic. Directions and rubrics are provided for each P.L.A.N.K.S.

 

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