Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Mathematics Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites with Jennifer Clowers!
After hearing Jennifer Clowers and looking through your new book, Mathematics Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites, how can you use this information to help your new teacher(s) with instruction in this area? How can this information transfer to other content areas?
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Jennifer did a great job! I can't wait to integrate more music in my math lessons. With my mentee being a new teacher, this will be such rich information to use! I wish I knew this when I began teaching. I think that all of the information from the book and from today can be spread across the curriculum. This is a great tool to promote deep learning and memorization.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed today with Jennifer Clowers! The day went by so fast because we were engaged in the many activies. By using the strategies she shared, we can do the same for our students -keep their attention, keep them engaged and keep them focused on the math concepts being taught - Learn while having fun and retaining the information! The book Mathematics Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites will be a very useful text for not only my mentee but my entire grade level. The strategies that are shared in this book are not difficult. They are basically quick and easy methods that make learning fun. Many of these strategies can EASILY be used across the curriculm for example - the activity "I have, Who has" can be used in math to review meanig of words but it can also be easily used in daily vocabulary, science, and social studies (describe facts of historical people / events in history). I can't wait to share these strategies with my entire grade level!
ReplyDeleteThe day was very uplifting and went by so fast. I am a true believer in getting students up and moving during lessons. I found many activitives/strategies we covered today, things that I know I can immediately take back and modify to the ELA classroom.
ReplyDeleteJennifer Clowers is great. I enjoyed everything we did today and I found so many strategies that I can use in my classroom. There are things I am using in my classroom, like music, legos, allowing students to teach the lesson, that I didn't realize the actual impact I was making on my students. I am a CTAE teacher and I do some off the wall things sometimes or at least I thought the things I was doing was off the wall until today. I teach Engineering Drawing and Design and the information I received today on strategies for teaching math are priceless. I can't wait to visit with my mentee next week and share what I learned today. She is always looking for new stuff to try in her art classes.
ReplyDeleteIt was a great day!!!!
This was an excellent presentation. I got a lot of useful ideas that I will be sharing with my mentees. Keeping students engaged in fun activities will help keep the behavior issues down. While I was thumbing through the book I found that all of the information will ransfer well in other areas. I think that incorporating literature into math is an excellent way to teach a lesson in a short period of time. I loved the idea of the alphabet book. I can incorporate that as a word wall for each subject.
ReplyDeleteThis was a wonderful workshop! I can't wait to incorporate some of the things I learned into my math instruction. My mentee teaches students with cognitive impairments and she will be able to use many of these strategies to bridge her students abilities with the GPS standards. Many of the strategies Jennifer taught can be used for GAA activities also.
ReplyDeleteKeeping the children actively engaged all day in each lesson is of the upmost importance and with the workshop on Friday there is so much to share with my mentee (as well as sharing the book with her). I know there is much I will take back into my classroom and the children will benefit greatly.
ReplyDeleteWow! Jennifer Clowers is AMAZING! I am so excited about implementing the strategies she presented on Friday. I teach the 4th grade inclusion class at my school, and my mentee is actually my inclusion teacher. We are fortunate enough to be able to work together all day every day. I have already shared some of the ideas we learned about on Friday, and we are both really looking forward to planning lessons which incorporate what I learned. We think that our students with disabilities will benefit greatly! Thanks, Jennifer!
ReplyDeleteThe workshop was absolutely fabulous. It was very active and engaging. I believe the most significant strategy that I left the workshop with was to keep the learning relevant; relate it to the students' real-world and to ensure that the students are actively engaged in their own learning. Being a Kindergarten teacher we use math stations to provide our students with opportunities to practice the skills we teach in class. This is the information that I have shared with my mentee as she makes her stations. I think once she is conformtable with this format in her math lessons it will automatically begin to flow into other areas of her instruction.
ReplyDeleteWow! Mrs. Clowers is amazing.I completely agree that the best lessons are the ones when students are engaged and moving. My grade level has begun implementing many of these strategies to improve off-task behaviors.It was wonderful to see the successes that my mentees are having due to the decrease of off-task behavior to more engaged students. My mentees confidence is growing with their classroom management strategies. It is wonderful to see them grow as new teachers as they are implementing new strategies into their classrooms.
ReplyDeleteI was very impressed by the workshop and Mrs. Clowers. I feel that keeping the students engaged is very important to getting them to learn and retain information. As a mentor, I would tell new teachers that adding movement and songs to their lessons will help students learn better. I think that this is also a great way to keep all teachers from having behavior problems. We have to face it, with the rise in video games if we are going to keep students interested we have to get up and get moving!
ReplyDeleteAfter today's workshop, I cannot wait to get back in the classroom! Mrs. Clowers was a wonderful presnter and keeping us actively engaged in a variety of learning activitie made the day go too fast. With an active group of firt graders the many strategies and lessons help to meet the many needs and modalities of the learner, keeping them engaged in the learning. Games, movemement, songs, role playing, field trips and of course some fun and humor make the learning last. I will share the textbook,MATHEMATICS WORKSHEETS DON'T GROW DENDRITES and the many great activitie with my mentee which will help us both in planning instruction and assessment. Implementing the brain-based learning strategies in the classroom will not only make the learning meaningful for the students but help keep the teachers enthusiastic about what they are teaching!
ReplyDeleteJennifer did a great job presenting Mathematics Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites! I enjoyed watching her integrate music into everyday math concepts. I can not wait to share all of this useful information with my mentee. While watching some of her techniques, I wish I would have know this when I began teaching. Children love movement, role playing and games. This was a great workshop!
ReplyDeleteMovement is very important when teaching students and trying to keep them engaged in all lessons. When I was a child, my teachers taught me through movement and songs and I remember many of the concepts TODAY!!! When mentoring my mentee, I will encourage her to include movements/songs throughout her lessons to help her students learn and retain valuable information that can make them successful! Also, as a mentor I will share with my mentee that movement can really help to keep very active students engaged as well.
ReplyDeleteGreat information given during "Mathematics Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites"! Several of the ideas she presented were directly related to the standards I teach so I can't wait to try them. Getting kids out of their seats is a great way to differentiate instruction and keep them engaged. I will be passing on these ideas to my mentee who also teaches in my grade level. This is a great motivator to try new engaging activities in other subject areas.
ReplyDeleteI thought that MWDGD was fantastic in how it allows students to incorporate their bodies directly into the learning process. The more types of learning modalities that can be incorporated into instruction, will automatically cover the needs for differentiation in a teachers' lessons.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the energy of this training! I can share the strategies with my mentee in incorporating music into math lessons. I think these lessons are great to get kids moving. This is particulary important for us because we teach children with disabilities. Music can also be integrated easily into language arts class with the parts of speech for example. Love, love, love!!!
ReplyDeleteThis was an awesome presentation! I teach the same grade as my mentee, so what I learned today can help us with our grade level standards. Just having her book from the workshop that lists titles of math related books is exciting! I'm always trying to incorporate listerature in my math lessons, so I feel much more prepared to do that now. Also, the getting out of your seat activities were very engaging. I have already done the conga we did in class to the steps to division (divide, multiply, subtract, bring down). This was a workshop that would benefit all teachers!
ReplyDeleteI loved the workshop! It was so motivating and uplifting! Mrs. Clowers demonstrated such passion when discussing how the children feel when they are in the classroom. I went back and implemented the acronym M.A.T.H- Math Ain't That Hard! My kids say it every day before Math as a warm-up! They absolutely love it! At the time Mrs. Clowers held her workshop, we were studying Geometry. Mrs. Clowers's main topic was Geometry, so I was able to implement a lot of her lessons, dances, and games!! It was a great resource as well as a wonderful book with great ideas and strategies.
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