To be a good teacher you need to be approachable and engaging, you need to have clear objectives, and effective discipline skills. You need to have good classroom management skills, and be an effective communicator with not only the students, but also the parents. A teacher needs to be knowledgeable of not only the subject material, but curriculum and standards. Most importantly you need to love kids and love to teach to have a good rapport with your students, plus that passion will keep you motivated to be the best you can be for your students. A qualified teacher isn’t just one thing they are all of these characteristics put together. It’s not always easy but you have to have patience and love what you do!!!
Thank you to our AMAZING Teachers who dedicate their time and energy for our Kiddos! Thank you for teaching from your HEART!
Engagement
How do you keep your students engaged in class? Unless you manage to capture and keep students' focus, the engine of student learning isn't in gear!
Read this article on Light a Fire! 10 Conventional Ways to Motivate Students
If your students didn't have to be there, would you be teaching in an empty room?
Teach Like A Pirate Book Study
Teach Like a Pirate Teams
Teach Like a Pirate Lessons
We can't wait to see your skits at the December Staff Meeting!!!
Ask and Analyze
Pages 33-53
"The important thing is not to stop questioning." -Albert Einstein
What is this creative process? To a large extent, it is the process of consistently asking the right questions. I learned one of my most life-transforming concepts from motivational speaker and author, Anthony Robbins. The concepts is the unbelievable importance and significance of questions. The types of questions we ask ourselves determine the types of answers that we we receive. If you consistently ask questions that lead to creative and outside-the-box thinking, your mind will provide you with creative and outside-the-box answers.
"How can I make this lesson outrageously entertaining, engaging, and powerful so that my students will never forget it and will be desperate to come back for more?"
Professional Development Compensation
For the 2017-2018 school year, all teachers are contractually allowed to earn up to two days (13 hours) of per diem for attending approved professional development. In addition, teachers are able to participate in approved professional development for salary credit.
Upcoming Professional Development
- T.E.A.M Workshop- November 15th- 3:45 PM-5:45 PM
- MAP Skills- November 15th- 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
- Student Engagement: Create engaging lesson- November 16th from 3:30 PM-5:45 PM
#FSUSDEdChat
Please join us at the next #FSUSDEdChat with Araceli Lopez, AP of Anna Kyle Elementary as she lead the discussion on supporting ELL students & finding innovative strategies.
If you feel brave and would like to to be a moderator, please contact Mrs. Lewis. Here are the upcoming #FSUSDEdChat. Click on this LINK or paste and copy the following:
No Excuses University
5 Strategies to Deepen Students Collaboration
Read this article from Edutopia on strategies to use in your classroom. Click on this LINK
Twitter Challenge This Week
Please join us this week! Tweet to spread the SPARK of POSITIVITY!!!
Crystal/Fairview Partnership
Bridging Elementary and Middle School
Our Crystal Scholars were excited to meet their pen pal in person! The Fairview Scholars didn't want to leave Crystal because they had so much FUN! They had time to bond with one another, eat snacks, play team building activities, take a campus tour, and had a Q&A section. Thank you Mr. Tomas, Mrs. Mikkola and Mrs. Nowlin for planning this event!!!
Terry Murray
Math Teacher
Go #observe Ms. Murray on scaffolding/chunking her lessons and integrating different teaching style.
Noemi Lay
6th Grade Teacher
Nickname: Mimi
High School: Arvin High
Adriana Barrett
College and Career
High School: Armijo High
Career if not a College and Career Tech: Labor and Delivery Nurse.
Would Like to be on this game show: Name that Tune
Passion: Family and nature, dance, music, being a mom.
Fun Facts: Love chocolate, comedy, to wear my cowboy boots, the beach and to travel.
Guess who? The first Staff that can guess who this is will earn five treasure cards!!!
Favorite Staff at Crystal
- Thank you to all the staff who attended out Staff Mixer at Cast Iron Grill last week! We enjoyed relaxing and spending time with you!
- Thank you Ms. Murray for letting us use your room for detention during lunch and after school (ASD)!
- Thank you Jonathan for going above and beyond with our kiddos!
- Thank you to ALL the Teach Like a Pirate Groups! The posters were AMAZING!
- Thank you to all the staff at the Staff Meeting who provided candid feedback about homework! This information will help us and Secondary Education!
- Shout out to Ms. Williams for taking our Scholars to Student 2 Student Leadership at Travis AFB!
- Thank you Mr. Kornblum and Mrs. Harrison for lunch!
- November 10 - Veteran's Day - No School
- November 16 - Jeanne's Final Day Before Retirement!
- November 20-24- Thanksgiving Break - No School
- Jeanne Lohr 17
- Adriana Barrett 22
- Jerry Evans 23
- Terry Murray 29
- Stephen Ravina 30
Fun with the APs
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