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The Uros people of Peru's floating islands welcome tourists daily. As the crush of travelers come to the floating islands will tourism destroy them?
a tasty Main course with red peppers
As the craft glides through the freezing depths of the ocean, more than two miles below the surface, I stare out through the thick glass window into the abyss.
PBIS (positive behavior interventions and support) was implemented in my home base school two years ago. At the time when it was introduced, we were having an extremely difficult time managing the students' behavior as a team. If students entered my art class, they felt their behavior had no effect on the rest of their days, even if I called home or gave a detention! Here's a link to the PBIS website with more information: http://www.pbis.org As one of our first steps, we introduced "cool tools," which are simple phrases the students can remember throughout the day. We also held assemblies to go over the tools and help the students remember the phrases. Some of the phrases we use are: Watch While Walking Stash your Trash Zip your Lip Quick, Quiet, Clean Leave your Attitude at the Door Kindness is Contagious Cool Tools for the Art Class When I watched the assembly to introduce these tools, the speakers were listing off where these tools could be used...the lunchroom, bathroom, classroom...and I never heard art room. I stopped and said to myself, "Wait! We can use these anywhere in the school! Just because I didn't hear the assembly speaker list it off as an example doesn't mean I can't use them myself!!!" So, I started using them! Watch While Walking: Students enter the art room and they may bump or trip over artwork! Or...when you push your cart into the room, the students need to watch and not bump into your materials! Stash your Trash: I repeat this all the time to my students, especially when they leave paper towels in the sink! I remedied that by posting a friendly reminder in front of the sink. Quick, Quiet, Clean: I give the last five minutes of class for students to clean up their materials. If the sink is needed for washing hands, the students say"Quick, Quiet, Clean" while washing their hands to limit their time. When I'm on the cart, they have to go one at a time to the bathroom to wash their hands. Sometimes, the students forget a word...they clean, but their loud. Or they're quiet and cleaning, but they're not quick. That's when I have to remind them of their points system (will be discussed below)! Zip your Lip: If a student talks while I'm demonstrating a project, the other students say, "Zip your lip!" It's funny when kids tattle on each other. Leave your Attitude at the Door: I admit one of my biggest pet peeves is when students bring outside drama into my room. I see them for 40 minutes. It's not that I don't care about them, but their worries and attitudes slow them down...especially when they're in 6th grade! If your students have legitimate problems, then you need to be there for them. But, if little Susie took Becky's apple at lunch, that can stay outside the door. Kindness is Contagious: I love this one! When students hear "contagious" they think of colds and sneezing, so when I talk about this with kindergarten, I love to pretend to sneeze out "Thank you!" or "Please!" which makes them giggle! When a good deed is seen, make it known how awesome it is. The students feel more confident when they see their positive behavior being recognized. Student Accountability After our first year, we did notice an improvement, but we still were not quite there. A system was in place to reward positive behavior, but we still needed accountability for negative behaviors in school. Every teacher had their own systems in place, but when the students transitioned into a specials class, lunch, or recess, the students basically acted as if their actions didn't matter. In our second year, we introduced a "check" system. I discussed this in a previous post, but I wanted to re-visit it because this system was so effective, other schools in our district started using it. The homeroom teachers were given a clipboard that was to be used in the classroom and taken to every specials class and in the lunchroom. Attached to the clipboard was the class roster, which was set up as a chart for the week. Teachers made multiple copies for the next few weeks. This way, a check was added to the board and the behavior mark was carried throughout the day. If a student misbehaved, they got a check. If a student didn't follow a cool tool, check. Fighting or physical contact was automatically an office visit, but name-calling went on the board. One check: Warning Two checks: Half of recess (walking or time out) Three checks: All of recess Four checks: Detention, note and/or phone call home If a students received a check in the morning, many times they tried their best to not get another one by the end of the day! If a student had three checks before art class and received a fourth with me, the teacher and I worked out who who write the detention and call home. It worked well, and I leave my happy face :) Our school also had incentives for positive behavior. If a student lasted an entire quarter without a check, they were invited to special events at school, like pizza parties, pancake breakfasts, or special assemblies. At the end of the school year, the students who received no check marks all year were given trophies! To answer the main question above, PBIS works very well for the art class, in classroom and on a cart. The system helps the entire staff work together to share the positive behavior and to make students accountable for their actions, positive or negative. If your school does not have PBIS is place and you're having management issues throughout the school, recommend this program to your administrators.
For April's Stepping Stones in Arts & Activities Magazine, I focused on how to deliver paint instruction without the use of a sink. Not every art teacher has a comfortable environment to deliver his or her art instruction. Many teachers travel from room to room, school to school, set up a temporary space and pack their supplies in car trunks or mobile carts. With painting being a key material to teach in a visual art curriculum, many teachers learn ways to adapt to their situation. In my situation, I have a room, but no sink. Although I’ve been teaching for a number of years, this is my first year in this environment and I am quickly learning to adapt to the situation, even in emergencies. In my years of teaching from a cart and traveling to different schools, I’ve learned that many times instruction does not always go as planned, so we must be flexible and understanding. No matter what your situation may be, here’s a few tips to help with painting instruction in most teaching environments. Art on a Cart: In the past, I would push a cart from room to room. Although the situation was not ideal, I refused to take paint out of my curriculum simply because of inconvenience. Since storage was an issue, I used paper plates as palettes and recycled butter containers as water bowls. When I developed a better method of storage, I started using plastic cups with lids to store my paint and prevent waste. If a room had a sink, I asked students to fill the water bowls to a line I drew on the bowl and gave them the responsibility to pass the water out. If the room did not have a sink, I needed to adapt. If you have space within a cart you’re pushing, consider a water jug with a spout for quick refills, and an empty bucket for dirty water. With a lack of storage space, I had collected 5 gallon plastic jugs with handles to fill with clean water. At the end of each class, I would have students take the dirty water buckets to the bathroom to dump in the sink. School to School: If you travel from school to school, you may have carts or classrooms. I would highly recommend keeping your paint supplies at each school, and making sure you have a space to keep the supplies without worry of them disappearing when you’re not there. Make sure you communicate with your administration about the importance of your co-workers leaving your materials alone when you’re not there. So many times educators feel they can use the materials because it’s school property, when in fact, art teachers not only purchase consumable materials from their own funds, but order just enough for their own classes. Classroom Without the Sink: Since I am new to this situation, I would like to share what I have done to work with what I have. One way to keep water in the room was to purchase a portable sink. The sink holds a 10 gallon bucket of water to run through, and another bucket to dump out at the end of the day. As nice as this is to have, I learned quickly that it does not last for more than two painting classes. Have a table or cart set aside to hold a water jug or buckets of water, as well as a bucket for dirty water and brushes. Become acquainted with the layout of the school and find any water closets or bathrooms that are close by for refills. In my case, I have a water closet a few doors down that I use to refill buckets in the morning and wash brushes in the afternoon. I have also assigned classroom helpers in each class to help in refilling the buckets and dumping the dirty water if needed. For spills, I asked for donations of paper towels from the parents and staff. Hand washing is done with sponges that I keep in the room that are pre-soaked. In any case, being prepared helped in preventing many painting catastrophes. Mobile Instruction: Some mobile units have sinks while others do not. In these cases, I would use the water jug with spout for faster distribution of water for paint projects. Find your closest water source (ex. hose, nearby bathroom, or water closet). If you’re in an outside unit and you have worry of the carrying of water buckets in colder climates, communicate with your custodial staff on how water is needed in your situations. With any situation where you deliver your instruction, keep open communication with your administration, co-workers, and custodial staff on your needs for your teaching. Painting can be fun, but in some circumstances very challenging to instruct. Just be flexible, understanding, and open to new possibilities with your paint projects!
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Kitchen Sink Tales: Advice is plentiful on how best to cook pumpkin in Italy. Here Rachel opts for a quicker, richly flavoured risotto where the pumpkin is roasted and added right at the end to glistening effect.
a tasty Main course with red peppers
Learn how to clean your white sink with only three ingredients! This easy and fast cleaning trick will have your white kitchen sink clean in no time!
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Care is needed as we won’t have the broth that comes with soaking and cooking your own chickpeas. You want a full-flavoured soffritto – so go slowly and use good olive oil, a pinch of chilli, fresh rosemary and a good teaspoon of tomato puree – but you want it blushing, not burning red
Looking for an easy science activity? Today I'm excited to share this sink or float free printable. It's fun one that is great for all ages. It can be a quick activity or if you're looking for something to keep them busy this summer, you can add lots of items to "test". There are 2 versions you can download and print for free. One has some suggested items to try out and one is blank. For the blank one you can have the kids gather a bunch of items they want to test out and write them down themselves. For little ones that can't write yet, have them draw the object.
These easy pancakes are the perfect side dish or appetizer to any meal. And best of all, they don’t even taste “healthy”!
Kitchen Sink Tales: Pasta e ceci – pasta and chickpeas – is typical rustic Roman fare – a soffritto of onion and celery simmered in wholesome chickpea broth, the flavours intensified with salty anchovy and filled out with toothsome broken pasta. The rest is then up to you...
Reykjavik has some truly fabulous museums, but it has so many of them that it can be hard to choose which to add to your Reykjavik itinerary! Whether you're looking for Icelandic history, art, or culture, there's a Reykjavik museum (or two) that's perfect for you! Here are the ten best museums in Reykjavik and
Kitchen Sink Tales: Advice is plentiful on how best to cook pumpkin in Italy. Here Rachel opts for a quicker, richly flavoured risotto where the pumpkin is roasted and added right at the end to glistening effect.
Tonight, we’re expecting a host of kids to help us commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. We’re all set up, with tables full of items to craft our own mini-ver…
Learn about sinking and floating through this spring themed activity. All materials are based on things common in the spring.Students have the opportunity to make a prediction of what could happen as well as document what they really saw occur.
Not only are you lonely…but this will make it worse.
