Stephanie Feeman Education 776 Blog

This week I created a tutorial on how to use nearpod. This is a new web tool 2.0 that I came across recently. My dad actually introduced it to me months ago but I hadn't found the time to explore it until taking Education 776. This is actually one of the best resources I have found on the internet to use in the classroom. Nearpod is an interactive lesson that is done all online. Students using 1-1 devices participate in the lesson and explore from their seats as you explore from the board. The website allows you to create your own lesson or use one of the thousand different lessons in the Nearpod library. While I was getting to know this tool, I was amazed by how many different FREE lessons are available to use in the classroom. The library allows you to search by grade level, standard, subject, or type of activity. As a really busy teacher, I love that they give me ready to use lessons instead of just the option to create my own lesson. Lessons are interactive and encoura...

I had the opportunity to create a twitter account. I was never aware of all of the different resources available to me through twitter. I always viewed twitter as another social media network that was designed to share funny memes and silly stories. I never thought that I could actually learn things about teaching and different things to try in the classroom. I looked through and began following several different twitter accounts. The best account/resource that I found was Mindshift. Its twitter handle is @mindshiftkqed and it shares the most interesting things. This resource focuses on shifting our brains from traditional ways of learning to more progressive ways of thinking. I think during this time in history, it is incredibly important for everyone to shift the way they have thought about teaching and education, and move towards the future. This Twitter account embeds a growth mindset across all areas of education. I think I was so interested in this particular resource beca...

Photo courtesy of www.tomorrow.org 'Project Tomorrow' The more I dig into the learning/education culture, the more important I think it is to view statistics of my professional field. I feel that teaching as a profession is rapidly changing. Classrooms and districts are completely different from what they were in the past. Students learn differently then they used to, and standards hold teachers accountable in vastly different ways. With that being said, it is important for educators and administrators to analyze opinions and points of view from all areas of their community. I dove in to a highly regarded Speak Up statistics firm. Digital learning is something that is relatively new to the front line of education. I have been trying to find out more information about implement digital learning into my classroom. I believe that digital learning can allow students to become more self sufficient and add different levels of differentiation to every single student. In my class...

Greetings! My name is Stephanie Feeman.  I just started my 4th year teaching 3rd grade at a school that represents 33 different languages. Our district is kindergarten-8th grade. Southern Illinois is incredibly rural with very little diversity. However, when you enter our school you would never have know where we were located. Our district strives to include students from all walks of life. Diversity is celebrated and we see being different as being special. My classroom is a co-taught special-ed classroom with 26 students from all different backgrounds. My teaching partner and I focus on engagement and genuine thought in the classroom and we both just completed our ESL Endorsement to make our classroom even more inclusive. We try to make every day better than the last and make our time with them as enjoyable as possible. Personally, I understand what it may feel like to have an disfunctional home life. I have seen many students come to school each day and not want to go home. I ...