Teach Dailey

 I'm so grateful that I was able to become a GLAD certified educator early in my career. This week long training I took several years ago has really changed the way I teach and stuck with me. While I have a lot to learn, there are some strategies that I use regularly in my classroom. Narrative Input Charts are one of my favorite strategies to get students excited, connected, and thinking to our learning material. Top Tips For Narrative Input Charts: 1. Choose a powerful text  Whenever possible use texts from perspectives that might be missing in your curriculum. At the beginning of the year I use Narrative Input Charts to show the perspective of the Indigenous People in Pre-Columbian North America. A Boy Called Slow by Joseph Bruchac is a great text to help students connect to what it was like to live in the great plains. 2. Include interesting pictures Students are hooked by good pictures in stories. Teaching the upper grades it is especially important to include images that ...

 This year I've been focusing more on my YouTube channel than this blog, but I feel that this is better communicated in writing. As a person at high risk due to medical conditions, I've been fully in quarantine. After surviving cancer, I know that health is something never to be taken for granted.  I joke with friends about being in my "bunker," but I've never felt trapped. I want to highlight the people that I'm grateful for that have made teaching in quarantine bearable. I'm Grateful For: Paraeducators: Paraeducators are incredibly helpful in the "in-person" classroom, and have gone above and beyond during distance learning. I've been blessed to have two amazing women in my classroom this year and honestly I can't imagine this year without them. From noticing which students seem down to asking questions that will help students understand the lesson, these professionals add so much to our classroom community and provide much needed supp...