Data, Data, Everywhere! (freebie)

Do you use data in your class?

The word "data" can often instill fear in a teacher's heart; data meetings, data-driven instruction, assessments! I think this is because so often we forget that what we instinctively know about our students IS data, it's just not a number on a graph or a chart.

That's not the "data" that I'm talking about.

I've been seeing more and more about class data walls and a little bit about student data notebooks as I surf pin plan for the coming year. I had a college professor that was CRAZY for these things, but we all just thought he was plain crazy. I mean who has time for that?

I have spent a couple weeks (on and off, I mean, I've got to give the TV my full attention some time!) putting together a word doc of what I might want in a data folder next year.

Download the freebie here and then PLEASE, please, PLEASE let me know what you think!

I would love to hear from some teachers that have done this before. Do you have your students track their progress? How does it work in your classroom?

First Freebie!

Hey y'all - I just realized my poem of the week for this week is about even and odd numbers - and I haven't talked about this with my kids at ALL! I figured I should whip something up pretty quick to teach this, so here it is:

Click on the pic for your freebie!