Kristin Phillips
Hook your students into learning from the first day of school
Which day of the year will you have all eyes on you? The keenest students? The least amount of student misbehaviour? The first day of...
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Kristin Phillips
Jun 24, 20164 min
Thinking about the first day of school already-or not!
I have posted this, or something similar, at the end of June before, but I always think it is a good time to think about it. Or at...
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Kristin Phillips
Oct 16, 20153 min
Using Drama and Narrative to Teach Concepts
Here are just a few things that I have seen lately that use drama or movement to help kids understand tricky concepts. Students like to...
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Kristin Phillips
Oct 2, 20154 min
Rubrics versus letting kids “give it a go”
I must admit that I don’t love rubrics. They take a long time to write and sometimes it is hard to know what they actually say, even...
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Kristin Phillips
Oct 24, 20144 min
Student Engagement is More Than Having Fun
At a workshop last week, the speaker reminded us that “student engagement” is not the same thing as “having fun”. Student engagement is...
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Kristin Phillips
Oct 9, 20144 min
Multiple Entry Points into Learning: there is no such thing as average
We know that in any given learning situation students arrive at different places. When I first started my teaching career at the...
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Kristin Phillips
Sep 14, 20144 min
Rethinking diagnostic assessment as entry points
It being September, I had quite a few good conversations about diagnostic assessments this week. Quite a few years ago, the practice...
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Kristin Phillips
Aug 29, 20143 min
Knowing Stuff: The balance between content knowledge, and the inquiry processes
Every year our board produces a video. I got to watch it (twice) this week. It is very good. One of the messages is about how our...
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Kristin Phillips
Aug 12, 20143 min
Do you create in your classroom a culture of “done” or a culture of learning and improvi
Do you create in your classroom a culture of “done” or do you create a culture of learning and improving? A culture of “done” implies...
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Kristin Phillips
Feb 2, 20143 min
Multiple Entry Points into Learning
Differentiation, multiple entry points, small group instruction, individualized instruction, IEP’d students—how do we incorporate all of...
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Kristin Phillips
Oct 22, 20132 min
Book Clubs and Non-fiction Text
I am guilty, as a female, of reading mostly fiction. So when someone asks what I am reading, I invariably default to the novel in which...
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