Mentor High School Shared Resources

An infographic that shows covers of 50 books that would be great for teachers to read.

Richard Byrne: Like many of you, when I was in middle school and high school we were taught to create index cards to organize our research. After creating the cards we sorted them into an order to support writing our research papers. That same concept can be applied to organizing research with Google Slides. In the video below I demonstrate how this is done.

The handy infographic below takes a look at why seating charts matter.

Students should be able to easily create their own learning timelines and share them with each other.This can have a huge positive impact on their overall learning process.

A grade book, planner, diary, schedule and resource manager all in one app. Its spreadsheet engine will calculate averages as you input your assessment data. You can insert and edit any kind of information for a class, student and semester visually, no more boring spreadsheets. Scroll, expand, filter, export, import and view your information at any time. No internet connection is required. iDoceo will work with any kind of grading system, you can even create your own. You will not miss you old paper grade book again.

To get the most out of an assessment, you need to know what you're looking for. Using a rubric can help your students understand the assignments in your classroom, and will make your grading process clearer, faster, and more objective and consistent.

I wish I taught in the same building as Dan Meyer! This is a great lesson starter.

Using the commenting feature of Google Documents is a good way to create a record of classroom conversations about an article that you have shared with your students. Using the commenting feature is also a good way to have the conversation about an article occur entirely online.

Flipped classroom or flipped learning is a methodology, an approach to learning in which technology is employed to reverse the traditional role of classroom time. If in the past, classroom time is spent at lecturing to students , now in a flipped model, this time is utilized to encourage individualized learning and provide one-on-one help to students, and also to improve student-teacher interaction. While the instructional or teachable content is still available in class, however this content is mainly designed in such a way to be accessed outside class which is a great way for struggling students to learn at their own pace.

Check out this cool google presentation. It has 32 ways to use google apps in education. It goes beyond just using it with your students in the classroom by giving you tips on how to become more efficient while utilizing google docs in lesson planning, collaboration, and much more.

Here is the google presentation with with someone explaining each bit.... 58 minutes so I would recommend viewing just the bits you want from the presentation (you know by moving the little circle thingy at the bottom).

Adding clickable links to youtube videos for those of you who are doing the flipped classroom thing.

Ever wanted to add subscripts or superscripts to a google form?  Here is a solution, although it is an annoying solution it does work you just need to copy and past the numbers from this google forum.

Looking for information to help your government class instructions.

Here are the top 20 government websites.

Good blog that provides useful resources for your government classes.