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10 Tips for Book Clubs in Classrooms

Link: http://cpet.tc.columbia.edu/one-book-book-club/book-club-in-the-classroom-10-tips-for-success Since we are starting our book clubs soon, I decided to do a resource blog in ways to make it a success! This page gives 10 great tips to successfully implement book clubs in classrooms. These are definitely for teachers and I think it explains things that we should keep in mind if we want to do a book club in our future classrooms. I hope everyone checks it out!

Differentiating Students

This concept of differentiating is extremely important for teachers to understand. We all know and is reminded repeatedly throughout our education life that everyone learns differently. There are people who needs to study hard with books in a quiet area, there are people who can study while they eat, there are visual learners, active learners, etc., etc. We all learned differently in our own classes and I believe that all our teachers tried their hardest to apply all their tools to help each and every one of us. I mean this is the reason why we learn so many strategies on how to teach students in all our courses now because there are so many ways to teach a concept, and in this generation, technology is a necessity to incorporate in our lessons. This idea of using technology was particularly emphasized in the video. We can see how using the smart board really gets students excited and engaged in the lesson by doing activities on the board and having students themselves interact with ...

TedxTalks: "I don't do Math"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y44nqo11Fh0 This video is a TedxTalks that explains the importance of STEM literacy. Emily Calandrelli defines being STEM literacy as a "way of thinking" instead of being extremely scientifically smart. For example, going to the grocery store and knowing what are GMO's or what benefits organic products have are all STEM literacy. I personally like how she suggests  that STEM literacy is a survival skill and that its important to pay attention because it affects our society and how the world is effected based on it. I think as future educators, particularly in the STEM subjects, its important to keep in mind the importance of STEM literacy and guide students in the directions of understanding STEM literacy and why it is needed in our society. WORD COUNT: 124