Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged 3rd Grade
Celebrating Teachers – Mike Jessee
Apr 21st
Sometimes there are teachers you just need to celebrate…..and that is this blog post (and the next).
This week is only two days old but I’m already excited at what teachers who are finishing our COETAIL course are producing. The final course has them implementing everything we’ve learned in the four classes before into units or lessons within their content area. It also calls for us, the instructors, (Kim, Dennis, and I) to observer a lesson where they implement everything they’ve learned and using this rubric have a discussion with them about what we observed in their lesson and room.
The last two days have More >
World Landform Tour via Google Earth
Sep 26th
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been working closely with a couple of our 3rd grade teacher looking at their mapping unit and using Google Earth. I talked about the lessons I was helping with a couple blog posts ago.
What has been really great about this project is how I’ve been able to support and differentiate the project at a teacher level based on their comfort zone and knowledge of technology and still meet the learning outcomes.
Ms. Tulli’s students just posted their KMZ file that you can download and learn about landforms from the kids. If you have time More >
