Common Core and Pinterest

Are you on Pinterest?  Check out Pinterest, especially if you're looking to jazz up some of the materials in the Common Core Modules!

Use the Search Tool in Pinterest to find all sorts of great resources for your classroom.  You can search by grade level, strategies, skills, etc...

Did you know that there are dozens of anchor charts aligned with Common Core on Pinterest?  Narrow your search by searching for anchor charts on a specific subject.  For example, a search for Math Anchor Charts provides many anchor charts for all kinds of math.  You can be even more specific by including a specific math topic, such as Algebra Anchor Charts in your search. 

A search of Close Reading offers anchor charts specifically about  close reading along with strategies and questions to ask when doing close reading with students...

You can plug in different words and phrases from the Common Core Standards into the Pinterest Search Tool to find pins on the many different skills students are learning within the Common Core.  Examples:

Cite Text Evidence

Main Idea

Text Structure

Ratios and Proportions

Make sure to sign up for your own Pinterest account.  Once you have an account, when you search for pins, you can add the pins you like best to your own boards.  You can invite others to pin to your boards.  If you work as a team with your grade-level or department-level colleagues, together you'll find many excellent strategies and tools to use with your students very quickly.  

If you have a Pinterent account, what are some of your favorite searches and pins?

Happy Pinning!

A Shameless Plug for Instructional Technology Support

Sometimes I think it is helpful to share information about how Instructional Technology Support works, so you know how I can best help you in your classroom.

I am available to help you plan your curriculum.  My specialty is helping you to look at your curriculum and find ways technology can make teaching and learning more efficient and fun.  Are you planning new Common Core aligned units?  Let me know if I can help with that!  Planning for the use of technology in your curriculum is much easier when you are developing your curriculum maps.

It is a good idea to invite me to participate in your grade level or department meetings.  Just listening to your concerns can spark ideas that I can share for ways to use technology to support what you are doing as a grade level or department.

Are you looking for a new way to present something, or are you having a hard time getting your students to understand a concept?  Invite me to meet with you so we can brainstorm ways to tackle issues like this.  We can use technology to help students visualize many concepts to foster deeper understanding.

Perhaps you would like to develop a WebQuest for your students.  Let's develop one together!  I also assist teachers in creating ActivInspire flipcharts, and locate interactive online resources and technology materials to support your lesson and unit plans.

You might be thinking about creating a classroom website to improve home-school communication.  We can discuss what tool would be best for you to use and how to get started.  Many teachers in our region use ToolboxPro, Wikispaces, or Weebly to post information online for parents and community members to access.

Administrators might consider contacting me to present useful technology tools at staff meetings, or to develop customized staff development training for teachers in your school or in the district.

There are so many ways that Instructional Technology Support can benefit your district.  Please contact me if you have questions.  :-)