Shared Teaching Podcast

If you're students are still struggling with putting words or sentences onto paper, this episode is for you!

Shared writing is the perfect tool in your writing toolkit to support your emergent writers. Get your students interacting and helping you write with shared writing. I'll walk you through how to get started - it's as easy as picking up your pen!

In this episode you'll learn:

• What shared writing is
• An example lesson 
• Why you should try shared writing
• How to pace and plan out your lessons

SHOW NOTES / BLOG POST LINK:  https://sharedteaching.com/shared-writing/

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• FREE K-3 Writing Skills Progression Chart

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Teaching shortages often mean missing out on your planning period. The rare times you do have a prep, it’s important to maximize your time. Today I’ll show you some time saving techniques to make the most of your time.

In today's episode we will tackle 3 ways to schedule out your prep period to be more efficient. We're also discussing ways to avoid distractions. 

SHOW NOTES / BLOG POST LINK:  https://sharedteaching.com/planning-period/

Sign up for my FREE K-3 writing skills checklist by clicking here!

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Happy New Year!

In honor of the New Year I am counting down my 5 resolutions for teachers. I love the feeling of all the possibilities that can occur in a new year. The idea of fresh starts and big dreams fills me with excitement every January. Here are 5 New Year’s resolutions for teachers that will reinvigorate you as well!

BLOG POST / SHOW NOTES LINK:  https://sharedteaching.com/new-years-resolutions-for-teachers/

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• Episode 87, Classroom Organization Tips for Creating Systems
• Episode 74, Organizing Your Classroom: Creating Working Systems
• Episode 103, Setting Up Student Organization Systems
• Better Teacher Organization, free email mini-course

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When you think of student centered instruction, you are thinking of the whole child. You are also thinking of how to encourage executive functioning and student agency within the classroom. How can you place ownership of the learning onto the kids?

In today's episode we cover:

• What student centered reading instruction is
• The teacher's role during student centered instruction
• How to shift the ownership to the students
• Setting and sticking with intentions (reading goals)
• Suggestions for fitting it into your reading block

SHOW NOTES / BLOG POST LINK: https://sharedteaching.com/student-centered/

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• Get 75% off of Andrea's Mini Course -  Student-Centered Reading Reveal

Connect with Today's Guest,  Andrea Haas of Elm Tree Education Consulting

• Join Andrea’s Mailing List on Elm Tree Education
• Learn More in Andrea’s Mini-Course: Student-Centered Reading Reveal (75% off for Shared Teaching Listeners)
• Andrea’s Instagram - @ElmTreeEd

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Looking for some advice for your first year as a teacher? In the third episode in this series, I’m sharing my best tips for what you should know for teaching during the winter time.

Check out these episodes for the rest of the New Teacher Advice Series:

• New Teacher Advice: Summer Edition, episode 77
• New Teacher Advice: Fall Edition, episode 95

SHOW NOTES / BLOG POST LINK:  https://sharedteaching.com/first-year-teacher-advice/

Resources You May Enjoy:

• CLASSroom Management Adventure (a course on building a classroom management plan)
• Parent Guides for Kindergarten, First, Second, or Third Grade

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Are you about to head into winter break but need a few more ideas to fill your time? These ideas are admin-approved (aligned to standards) and will have your students excited to work!

In today's episode I'll share ideas for:

• Help Wanted Ads
• Shared Writing
• Gingerbread Real Estate
• Author Studies

SHOW NOTES / BLOG POST LINK:  https://sharedteaching.com/winter-break/

Resources Mentioned In Today's Episode:

• 2nd Grade Opinion Writing Unit

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Are your students struggling to write in complete sentences? Maybe you're seeing a lot of run-on sentences with no punctuation in sight. Maybe you are seeing fragments that make no sense. Where do you go from here?

SHOW NOTES / BLOG POST LINK: https://sharedteaching.com/how-to-teach-sentence-writing/

In today's episode I will show you what has worked well for me in my own first and second grade classrooms over the years.

• How to Count It Out
• Using Sentence Partners
• Color Coding Sentences
• Space Sticks
• Small Group Instruction
• Whole Group Grammar

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• Writing Units

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We are heading into the end of the year which is a great time to evaluate and reset our classrooms. As a teacher, having clear systems for organization can save you lots of time in your day. I’m sharing a few of my favorite ideas for managing all the paper that comes our way.

In today's episode we're talking about:

• Figuring out our paper categories
• Create an organization flow for each category
• Decide on your organization style

SHOW NOTES / BLOG POST LINK:  https://sharedteaching.com/teacher-organization/

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• Crafty Teacher Lady's colored file system for paper grades

More episodes about organization:

• Episode 103: Setting Up Student Organization Systems
• Episode 87:  Classroom Organization Tips for Creating Working Systems
• Episode 74:  Organizing Your Classroom: Creating Working Systems
• Free Mini Email Course with videos - Better Teacher Organization

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If you're having trouble keeping up with your classroom jobs, this is the episode you won't want to miss.

In this episode we discuss:

• the purpose of a table captain
• using team jobs
• training students for their job crews
• rotating jobs
• assigning jobs
• teaching job expectations

BLOG POST / SHOW NOTES LINK: https://sharedteaching.com/jobs-for-students-in-the-classroom/

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• Free organization challenge - click to sign up
• Editable Classroom Team Jobs - purchase in my TpT store
• Episode 26:  Organizing with Classroom Jobs

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Messy desks and lost papers? Get your students organized by putting a system in place to help stop these problems in their tracks.  It's never too late to start a new system.

In today's episode we're talking about:

• What is a student organization system
• Organizing student desks
• Organizing student materials
• Creating a student paper system

SHOW NOTES / BLOG POST LINK:  https://sharedteaching.com/student-organization-systems/

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• ADDitude's article: The Messy Student's Guide to Order
• Editable Student Notebook Tabs from my TpT store, Shared Teaching

More episodes about organization:

• Episode 87:  Classroom Organization Tips for Creating Working Systems
• Episode 74:  Organizing Your Classroom: Creating Working Systems

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