Woohoo! I'm excited to be part of the Be Inspired by Teaching Strategies Blog Hop & Giveaway!
So many cool teaching tools you can win! I've honored to have my "Author Study BUNDLE" in this mix of amazing teachers' products! Best of luck to everyone!
My favorite "Be Inspired" teaching strategy is incorporating teamwork into my classroom. I love throwing a quick speed challenge to my students after the mini lesson to get them really fired up about our current topic.
For example, when discussing text structure, I print off a set of these mini text structure bookmarks for each group and laminate them. I toss a stack of classroom books (usually from our "lost books" bin) and have the table search the texts for clues about each book's text structure. They scavenge, they debate, they hurry and scurry, and they are super thrilled with themselves when they throw their hands in the air and shout, "TEXT STRUCTURE!" (That's our own little play off of "Bingo!")
You can see the mini bookmarks above, but I actually tie this into our much longer (and one of my favorite units of the year), text structure. I use an "I Have, Who Has" game, graphic organizers, text structure passages with QR codes, and text structure reference bookmarks to make the topic fun and support my learners while they work. I put the entire text structure bundle on TPT, both individually and as a set in case you'd like to check it out! :)
Actually, I just posted my FREE Text Structure Mini Bookmarks (that I discussed above) on Tsu just a few minutes ago and tagged it #teacherfriends. It now pops up with plenty of other amazing resources that are free! Love it!
What's Tsu, you ask? And what in the WORLD does "be your child" even mean?! Well, the new Tsu social media site (pronounced "Sue") is organized into virtual family trees. Anyone that signs up under your code (mine is http://www.tsu.co/teachering) becomes your "child" and future members that join under their code become your "grandchildren".
Why do this? This is the the coolest part! It's all part of their profit sharing model! Yes, they SHARE PROFITS with members, because the members are the ones creating the content. Members are the ones posting pictures, TeachersPayTeachers goodies, and Ryan Gosling memes, so Tsu wants gives back to its content creators. I love this concept!
Basically, Tsu is used just like a facebook account or blog for sharing content, but the content creator (YOU) gets a cut of the revenue generated on the site because of your entertaining, quality posts. Not that I'm quitting my job and planning to get rich from posting and sharing my usual content, but hey, currently I don't get a dime for all those posts I share on facebook posts, and I'm more than willing to support a company that values its members.
I'm getting my page set up as we speak, and loving the community of teachers and educational resources I'm discovering. For example, #teacherfriends is already being used to identify FREE teaching ideas and products, so by searching for that hashtag, you find awesome teaching tools!
Sign up for an account and add me as a friend or follow me for more freebies! See you Tsu-n!
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