I took a tiny break from blogging this past week. It was almost like a working vacation, but a fun working vacation. I did two interviews and my sister got married. The wedding was beautiful and we DIYed a lot of the decorations. It was a lot of work, but I've never seen anything more spectacular. I can't wait to see the pictures from the wedding, just as I am excited to hear back from my interviews. Cross your fingers!
Now back to it!
For this week's Friday Favorites, I wanted to talk about my inspirations for enrichment activities. The science teachers at the school where I was placed for student teaching were the queens of enrichment. They have really inspired me to think outside of the box when it comes to enrichment.
2. Leveling your classes - This option takes a lot more coordination if you want it to have a greater impact. For this to happen, you have to coordinate with other teacher that teach the same grade and subject at your school. You can take benchmark data or unit test data and create as many leveled groups as there are teachers. Each group will be put into a different classroom, depending upon their mastery level or their background knowledge. This allows for more individualized instruction. This shouldn't be used for every unit though. We tried this on a more difficult unit, and it worked wonders.
For this week's Friday Favorites, I wanted to talk about my inspirations for enrichment activities. The science teachers at the school where I was placed for student teaching were the queens of enrichment. They have really inspired me to think outside of the box when it comes to enrichment.
1. Reteach/Relearn/Enrich - After a test at the end of a unit, you can separate the students by mastery levels. Set a grade as a level for mastery. All of the students that make above that grade get to complete enrichment/extension activities. The students that make below the set mastery level will complete a reteach/relearn activity that goes back to the basics.
2. Leveling your classes - This option takes a lot more coordination if you want it to have a greater impact. For this to happen, you have to coordinate with other teacher that teach the same grade and subject at your school. You can take benchmark data or unit test data and create as many leveled groups as there are teachers. Each group will be put into a different classroom, depending upon their mastery level or their background knowledge. This allows for more individualized instruction. This shouldn't be used for every unit though. We tried this on a more difficult unit, and it worked wonders.
3. Create an enrichment box - This is also a pretty cool idea floating around Pinterest. Create activities that extend information learned, or that goes back to the basics on learned concepts. Then create an enrichment plan for each student that coordinates with the activities in your enrichment box. You can create an enrichment plan based on students' test scores or interests. When students have free time, they work on their enrichment plan.
Final thoughts... Use Mastery Connect for quick grading. It will also organize your data for you. Just be sure to scan the students' responses twice because sometimes it doesn't grade correctly the first time.
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