advisory Archives - THOM GIBSON

24 Aug 2018

Dear World…Messages From Middle Schoolers

Each year I do a project inspired by Robert Fogarty's Dear World project (http://dearworld.me/) where I ask students to share what their message to the world would be. Here's what this year's group had to share... Music by Kloudink - https://soundcloud.com/kloudink https://youtu.be/N1QHMOQTv8U

Post 01 – First Week Pre-Algebra, Robotics, and Advisory Activities

Well as part of my goals this year, I'd like to continue to blog every week as a reflective practice in my middle school math & robotics classes. This is my 7th year in the classroom, 4th year teaching middle school math & robotics, and 3rd year doing weekly blogs. I'm impressed by the number of teachers doing the #teach180 initiative where teachers write a DAILY reflection. Some will do an Instagram or Twitter post and that'll suffice. I'm going to be less worried about the presentation aspect of these blogs this year; I'm not spending time on cover photos…

Week 15 – Hooked Them On A Tuesday, Lost Them On A Thursday

It was our first week back from Thanksgiving break. After this week, we have one more week of class left and a week of mid-terms. Had some pretty significant high points this week as well as some points of pretty stark disengagement on the students parts, which was partially my fault. (more…)