March Lesson Plan Concepts for Inventive Instructing

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Glad February! This month I am making kindness the main focus in my classroom, and I’ve obtained some nice episodes and sources to share with you — plus a model new part on the backside with planning-ahead concepts for February and March. Let’s dig in!

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Listed below are some sources for you proper now:

• Understanding Neurodiversity: The Double Empathy Drawback — This is a stunning statistic: one in 5 youngsters has a studying and a focus subject, however one in three educators believes that is simply laziness. I sat down with Sue Fletcher-Watson and Vanessa Castañeda Gill for Cool Cat Trainer Speak Episode #56. 🎧 https://www.coolcatteacher.com/neurodiverseclass/​
• Government Perform Methods Kindergarten by Third Grade Lecturers Can Use Immediately with Dr. Sarah Oberle — the six government capabilities creating in younger youngsters and science-backed methods like giving instructions instantly earlier than a job and switching to instrumental music. 🎧 https://www.coolcatteacher.com/e927​
• Maker Monday: Begin the Week with Creativity with John Spencer — how beginning every Monday with a inventive maker undertaking reworked his classroom tradition and even boosted take a look at scores. One in every of my hottest episodes and getting numerous new site visitors! 🎧 https://www.coolcatteacher.com/e226​

Zero-Shot, Single-Shot, Double-Shot: A Prompting Framework for Lecturers

I introduced this at FETC and I am educating it to my college students. This is the short model:

• Zero-shot = You simply sort a request with no context. Generic outcomes.
• Single-shot = You add your analysis, notes, or content material alongside along with your request. A lot better.
• Double-shot = You present your content material AND examples of your earlier completed work. AI now is aware of what you need and the way you prefer it. Recreation-changer.

The step most individuals skip: Add your completed product again into AI after you are carried out modifying. Most individuals edit AI’s output and transfer on. However in the event you add your closing model again, you are coaching AI in your actual requirements. For those who use ChatGPT’s reminiscence, this upgrades your single-shot to double-shot over time.

Word: Whenever you look this up on-line, most individuals name this zero-shot, one-shot, and few-shot prompting(as an alternative of double shot.) I discover that zero, single shot and double shot are simpler for them to recollect.

How AI Helped Me Be Extra Human This Week

Analysis exhibits that performing at the very least 5 acts of kindness in someday can enhance happiness by as much as 42% after six weeks. I needed my college students to expertise this, not simply hear about it.

I wanted slides, a handout, and a Google Spreadsheet kindness tracker. Usually that is an hour of prep unfold throughout days — that means I would not launch till Wednesday or Thursday. As an alternative, I wrote an in depth immediate in ChatGPT’s considering mode and had all three deliverables in quarter-hour. I launched Kindness Month on February 1st — Day One — as a result of AI dealt with the manufacturing work whereas I made all the selections about what to show and how to show it.

My rule: do the issues that solely you are able to do. I resolve the curriculum, the method, and the instruments. I grade each project. I construct the relationships. AI makes the slides.

Listed below are my slides.

❤️ February

Take a look at my Pinterest Board with a number of concepts.

• Valentine’s Slime Science (Ok-5) — Arms-on science meets Hearts. College students measure, combine, and find out about polymers! Free printable.​

• “Why We Love Our Class” Collaborative Wall (Ok-8) — College students write what they love about their class on hearts and construct a show collectively. Or you may attempt a few of these 11 group constructing concepts.

• Kindness Problem Week (All Grades) — 5 acts of kindness in someday. Use a tracker and make it a pleasant competitors. (See above.)

📚 March Is Studying Month

Take a look at my March Pinterest board with concepts.

March can also be music in faculties month. Get impressed with music trainer Adrian Gordon.

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🏀 March Insanity Bracket Concepts

Final yr my college students made a “March Insanity” hype video. Be at liberty to share this enjoyable video to speak about what it’s however the introduce your individual bracket enjoyable!

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TIP: Go to Flipity and use their event bracket template so as to add objects and create the bracket. Hat tip Eric Curts.

• Historic Figures Bracket (Center & Excessive) — College students debate who was “most influential.” Will get even reluctant college students making evidence-based arguments.

• Math Insanity Brackets (Elementary) — Multiplication info, fractions, or decimals as bracket-style tournaments. Nice for Third-Fifth evaluation. (See a demo right here and there are TPT templates for this as properly.)

🧪 Extra March Concepts

... a few of my private notes are only for publication so that is edited down.

You’re so essential. Thanks for subscribing and telling your mates! I hope you discover a number of concepts right here.

Additionally, for these of you who’ve college students having standardized checks, I take the requirements and put them in my planner and have already began evaluation and follow for them. That means, it’s a little time every day and is not a lot close to the tip!

I hope your February is good and we transfer ahead into a cheerful March. Thanks for dedicating your life to serving to children!

Joyfully in your service,

Vicki

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