Finish Strong Friday Song and Thoughts, May 24, 2019

Dear Colleagues and Friends:  

Email issue #75 

Turn up Volume, , Click on link, Sing Loud! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctjOKI-2vNg  

Restore/Support https://twitter.com/Justinsua  

Teach/Learn  

A Framework for Whole-Class Discussions: Philosophical Chairs is an exercise that fosters careful listening and encourages every student to contribute their thoughts. A statement about a topic is presented to the class by the facilitator—it can be either teacher-or-student-generated.

Link Full Article: https://www.edutopia.org/article/framework-whole-class-discussions?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter 

Review: This brief article is excellent. Read 5 paragraphs of 'AN IN-DEPTH LOOK.' the author provides illuminating, insightful suggestions to generate student reflection and discussion. 

Lead/Love   

Math Teachers Should Be More Like Football Coaches: That style of motivation could help in the classroom, too. By John Urschel, https://twitter.com/johncurschel?lang=en  

Mr. Urschel is a Ph.D. candidate in mathematics and former professional football player.

Link Full Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/opinion/sunday/math-teaching-football.html 

Review: "A growing body of research shows that students are affected by more than just the quality of a lesson plan. They also respond to the passion of their teachers and the engagement of their peers, and they seek a sense of purpose. They benefit from specific instructions, constant feedback and a culture of learning that encourages resilience in the face of failure — not unlike a football practice. There are many ways to be an effective teacher, just as there are many ways to be an effective coach. But all good teachers, like good coaches, communicate that they care about your goals." - John Urschel

On this date the First Morse Code Message Sent Sent from Washington DC to Baltimore in 1844. Morse code is a character encoding scheme used in telecommunication that encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations called dots and dashes. Morse code is named for Samuel F. B. Morse, an inventor of the telegraph.