Best+Practices+at+York+Tech

Best Practices
[|Instructional Strategies]
 * Instructional Strategies**

The following was part of an inservice program held on June 8, 2009 at York Tech.

Web 2.0 and Tic Tac Toe:
Carol Zortman, English Department Chair and KTI
 * The evolution of differentiation in the classroom**

__**Description of Presentation**__ - How to spice up your units with INternet resources and give your students choices in their learning.


 * Web 2.0** - Internet sites that allow us to interact and share.


 * Differentiation** - Making opportunities for a variety of learning styles in the educationally engaged classroom.

[|Kathie Nunley's Web Site for Teachers - 5 Common Mistakes to Avoid in Layered Curriculum]

[|The New Bloom's Taxonomy and Higher Order Thinking Skills]

My early units used "A", "B", and "C" layers with the Higher Order Thinking (HOT) skills in the "B" and "A" layers.

Later designs required students to complete activities in all layers so that used HOT skills were used by all students.

[|Puritan layers.doc] [|Online Crossword Puzzle Generator]

//**Beowulf**// [|Beowulf layers II 2008.doc] [] []

[|Canterbury Tales layers 2008.doc] [|Canterbury Tales A layer 2008.doc] [|Canterbury Tales B layers 2008.doc] [|Quizlet Pilgrim Flash Cards] [|Quizlet Vocabulary Flash Cards] Canterbury Tales at Amazon: [|Puffin] edition - [|Marcia Williams] edition
 * Chaucer and //The Canterbury Tales//**

//**The Crucible**// [|Crucible layers 2008.doc] [|Courtroom Sketches] [|101 Ways to Love a Book] by Melissa Hart

[|Macbeth layers 2009.doc]// [|William Shakespeare at Brain POP] User id: yorktech Password: ycstech Pop-Up Book Instructions [|Scholastic][|ThinkQuest] [|Wordle] [|Cut ups Act 2.doc]
 * Shakespeare and** //**Macbeth**

//**Moby Dick**// [|Moby Dick layers 2009 tic tac toe.doc] [|Bio-Cube] [|Class Blog]

//**Gulliver's Travels**// [|Gulliver's Travels 2009a.doc] [|Character Trading Cards] [|The Ballad of Gilligan's Island]

//**Dickinson and Whitman**// [|Dickinson_Whitman rubric 2009 6-8-2009.doc] [|Voki] - create animated avatars [|Moodle] - place your Voki anywhere

YCST Media Center Research Wiki [|My Delicious Account] [|Teachers Pay Teachers] [|Museum Box] AWESOME site for creating visual and auditory Internet based projects. [|Blogger] - Can also reach through Google site under MORE then EVEN MORE [|Puzzlemaker] - free [|BrainPOP] password and user ID required. YCST has an account [|Toondoo] - free [|Quizlet] - free [|Discovery Streaming] - password and user ID required. YCST has an account. [|Spelling City] - free [|PhotoStory 3] - free download [|ReadWriteThink.org] [|Study Shack] - Find data to study or add your own data. Study and play with data online as flashcards, hangman game, crossword puzzle, matching, word search, or word scramble. Study anytime/anywhere by printing data or exporting flash cards to your cell phone, PDA, or iPod. [|BeFunky]- Turn your photos into incredible artwork with one click. Free – no registration [|Word Central] - Dictionary – Thesaurus – Rhyming [|Photovisi] Create wallpapers - use in presentations [|dMarie Time Capsule Generator] - free - use in presentations, research [|Glogster] - online poster - blog [|Common Craft] - How blogs work [|YCST Senior Tip Blog] - How can you use a blog in the classroom????? [|Poetry Blog] - Awesome use of a blog - If you teach poetry check out the writing assignments. [|Widgetbox] - need a calendar, time and temp, clock ... for your blog or Moodle?
 * Internet sources:**

[|Handbook on Differentiated Instruction for Middle and High Schools] [|Fast Ideas for BusyTeachers] [|Graphic Organiers and Activities for Differentiated Instruction in Reading] [|50 Graphic Organizers for Reading, Writing & More] [|25 Fun and Fabulous Literature Response Activities and Rubrics] [|25 Terrific Literature Activities for Readers of All Learning Styles] [|Better Than Book Reports More than 40 Creative Responses to Literature] [|Creative Book Reports: Fun Projects with Rubrics for Fiction and Nonfiction] [|10 Ready-to-Go Book Report Projects] [|Differentiation in Action] [|Teaching Writing through Differentiated Instruction with Leveled Graphic Organizers] [|35 Ways to Publish Students' Research & Writing] [|24 Ready-to-Go Genre Book Reports] [|Medieval Times 325 - 1453 A.D.] [|Medieval Times Activitiy Book] [|Read Aloud Plays The Middle Ages] [|Novel Units - Master List] [|The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World] [|Hands-On-History Middle Ages]
 * Print Resources -** available at Amazon, Scholastic, and sometimes Borders

Classroom Management
[|YCST Classroom Management Blog]