Drew Alexander
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28. Son. Husband. Father. Servant of Jesus. 8th Grade ELA Teacher. Ph.D Student in Education Policy
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Joined November 2021
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Looking for any and all resources on assessment in ELA with Science of Learning principles embedded. Want to grow in assessing my students.
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Why I’ve started using embedded nonfiction (ref: @TeachLikeAChamp /SoR) within my texts to build background knowledge. When students understand the context and have a rich understanding of how a story comes into play, engaging and using certain skills comes much more smoothly.
Teaching skills like "finding the main idea" is way less effective than just teaching knowledge.
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Me talking about taking feedback and consequences well to my 8th graders: Consequence is no coincidence. One of my GATE students: Isn’t that Lauryn Hill?. The kids are gonna be alright.
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RT @rpondiscio: A brief thread on the knowledge you need to have retrieved from your memory in order to type the sentence, “Memorization i….
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RT @SciInTheMaking: I had the chance to talk with Education Week about moving away from Chromebooks in the classroom. Excited to share my e….
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Chemistry teacher Marcie Samayoa went back to paper-and-pencil lessons this school year. It's led to deeper engagement.
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RT @MarcusLuther6: If students aren't talking to each other regularly and purposefully in the classroom then what is the point of the class….
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RT @SoLInTheWild: This a perfect example of how novice students are generally very bad judges of what they need to learn effectively. The g….
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I typically don’t like wishlists, but the priority this year is organization for my students. The binders would help to organize their English classwork by notes, assignments, texts/handouts, essays, etc. If you feel led, any help is greatly appreciated.
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RT @thebeaconsignal: @dom_lucre They told young Black boys that prison was real .but posture was a lie. They called violence “authentic….
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RT @KJWinEducation: Things I want young people to be able to read: .1. Scriptures .2. Vows.3. Medicine Labels.4. Love notes (see pic).5. Ma….
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RT @MattRKay: I’m not normally one for semantic battles, but educators probably shouldn’t use the word “cite” when describing students and….
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My literary quote for our ELA department wall. My why/response for I choose classic literature for my students to read.
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RT @KJWinEducation: A young man said learning to read saves lives and he "put that on everything". Translation: When young people "put tha….
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RT @SoLInTheWild: Explanations were much sharper today. Clear, concise and restrained. I consciously stuck to my main points and elabor….
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The first photo is a book one of my GATE students is reading currently. The second is a work sample of our theme paragraphs for Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” prose poem. FASE reading and Three Reads of the text is really helping my students get the most out of analyzing.
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RT @Miss_Snuffy: GCSE results are OUT!. First time we have achieved this!. Congratulations to everyone! . Social mobility at its best! 🥰 ht….
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RT @MarcusLuther6: The other day I worked w/ our team to construct unit plans, assessments, rubrics + exemplars. We took time to make the….
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Level 3 (Evaluate)-Independent Read, come up with the theme of the text as their exit ticket. Followed up today with a retrieval practice question and scaffolded their thematic statements into paragraphs with direct quotes as textual evidence.🤝.
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