Everything is Awesome!!!!

"Everything is cool when you're part of a team."  In case you're unfamiliar with this line, it's from the Lego movie soundtrack, and it's irritatingly catchy, as catchy, hopefully, as some of our AWESOME best practices identified below.  As you look at these best practices from our TMS team, reflect upon what you're doing to use similar practices in your classroom.

In PE, the teacher is in the midst of the game.  This helps with modeling technique, form and sportsmanship, and it also increases student supervision in a larger classroom environment. 

Hey - these look just like the exercises I do!  Having students practice in school what we expect out of school or beyond their traditional education prepares them for "real life."

In science, students are using their experiments and conclusions to make a YouTube video.  What makes this authentic is that students then watch one another's videos to make a data table of different scientific topics.

Flight Crew students are designing lessons for Pilots to use in Flyertime.  Within these lessons are videos and discussion guides for students use.  What a relevant learning experience!

"The Table of Contents is just like doing a Google search, only you look by alphabetical order."  So true - sometimes, it's the simple connections that can make a big impact on kids and help them connect concepts and skills to their background knowledge.