![]() ![]() According to the Department of Education, all OERs must be three things: digitized, free, and editable. As great assignments grow in their reach, though, it is hard to keep the personalization that individual teachers bring to the table from getting lost in translation.Īs educators continue sharing with wider audiences, it will be important to figure out how teacher-generated resources will be received into the world of Open Educational Resources (OERs). Digital platforms have use beyond just ease of editing, though: They are helping teachers bring their best ideas and materials to audiences much larger than the tight-knit communities of copy rooms and teacher’s lounges. ![]() ![]() As the years passed and my larder of teaching materials grew fat, I started sharing digital copies of my tried-and-true materials with newer teachers over Google Drive, where they could easily edit to fit their needs and developing teaching styles. I tailored what I found in these treasure troves to fit my own style of teaching and the needs of my specific classes. In my first year teaching, I was saved by the binders upon binders of activities, quizzes, and other tools that seasoned teachers shared with me. Whether it is a homework assignment, a rubric, or a classroom game, teachers build a lot of their curricula on shared materials, authored and tested by experienced peers. These are sweet stories that build on teachers’ well-deserved reputations for sharing with students, but teachers’ work also thrives on the amount of behind-the-scenes sharing they do with one another. Click on any of them for a closer look, or just check out the reading section of my store while you’re there to pick up the free bookmark.A time-honored nugget of the political stump speech is the anecdote about the teacher who brings breakfast for a hungry student in need, or maybe the one who purchases supplies out-of-pocket for an underfunded classroom. Here is a look at a few of those resources. In the store, you will also see resources for novel studies of classic middle school and upper elementary novels, task cards for specific story elements and other reading skills, and resources for teaching informational texts and close reading. UPDATE: There is also a set of book response bookmarks for a variety of literature genres – both fiction and non fiction available now. Make a little stack of copies and you’ll be all set for any novels your kids read this year! You can download it now from my Classroom in the Middle store. Here are the two sides:Īs you can see, it contains spaces for students to fill in information about the main character, other characters, the setting, the plot, the genre, and the problem and its solution, as well as the student’s favorite scene, and a place to rate the book and write a recommendation. With everything in one place, it’s a handy resource to use over and over again in middle school or upper elementary classrooms. Open, it’s a full sheet of paper (two sides) with spaces for lots of story element details. And it’s FREE! The picture above shows the bookmark folded for keeping a student’s place in her book. This little foldable bookmark is by far the most popular item in my Teachers Pay Teachers store! It’s an easy to use reading response format for any novel. ![]()
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