I'm Baaack

After three years and lots of changes I'm back. I've been thinking of making this more of a school blog because I have recently discovered lots of blogs that have helped me in a brand new teaching style.

I teach 7th grade science, and encourage the encorparation of literacy into my curriculum. I will start with how my classroom is set up. I use stations and students rotate through these in the last twenty minutes of class each day. Class starts with a bell ringer which I progress monitor each student and then we discuss it whole group. The next 15 to 20 minutes are spent with a mini-lesson. We add words to the word wall and then we disperse to stations. Some weeks I teach a small group and some weeks I don't. It all depends on topics at hand. Students have choice during some of their stations. I'll be posting more about specifics I do.