#EdCampKC

November 5, 2016
Truman High School
Independence, MO
Flexible Seating
Topics discussed:
Professional Learning
Flexible seating with student supplies Network Connections:
What to do when there is a substitute? Audrey Harrison
@aharrison_teach
Money!!!!

Encourage student voice

Behavior management (it often helps!)

Next Steps:

Create student survey for seating options

Join swap shops for supplies

Before
Some flexible seating areas, but
mainly different options to work,
not true flex seating. There are
many group arrangements.
 Left: Standing area with
stools
Right: Couch seating in
reading area

Right: small group area

Left: whole group with stability balls
meeting area Below: coffee table with
Below: bucket bean bags.
seating for small Blue shelf will house
groups or student supplies
independent work
Recently, desks were
taken out and
replaced with these
tables. Students have
buckets to house
supplies, folders, and
journals. Now, it is
true flex seating, not
just different options.

Top Left: round table

with stability balls
Bottom left: rectangle
table with bouncy
bands and a stability
disc
Top right: tall stools
Bottom right: students
have voice and choice.
Google Suites
Topics discussed:
Professional Learning
Using Google Slides for student interaction and not presentations Network Connections:
Transformations with bitmojis Mandi Tolen
Inspires student-student collaboration @TTmomTT

Make data tracking the student's job

Tab add-ons with Google Forms for reading passages

Next Steps:

Create a social studies lesson with student manipulation in google

slides

Use sheets for tracking CFA data

Virgina Plan
Congress given power
over the states.
A national executive
branch to carry out laws
created by Congress.
A national judicial branch to
interpret the laws passed by
Congress.
States with larger
populations should have
more representatives.
New Jersey Plan
Each state, regardless of size,
would have same number of
representatives.
STUDENT WORK SAMPLE
Students manipulate text while
reading to be in correct column
Great Compromise
Congress would not take part
in slavery issues.
Congress should be made up of
not just one part, but two, called
Houses.
Senate is made of two
representatives from each state..
Representatives for each state is
determined by the population of
each state.
Three out of five slaves were
counted into state population.
Gamification
Topics discussed:
Professional Learning Network
Connections:
Immediate student feedback
Tony Harmon @TonyH0612
Not just recreating a worksheet into levels
Christy Harris @teacherharris
Not just finding an online game
Paul @nightzookeeper
Encourages growth mindset
Brad Moser @bmos
Need failure to progress
Taylor Beckwith
What drives students to want to reach the next level?
@TaylorBeckwith1
Next Steps:

Gamify math facts- Is using iXL enough?

In an effort to gamify the
classroom, students created
specialist boards with their
strengths. They earn badges
and write on their sheets.
Audience can scan the QR
code to see a padlet of even
more information. Underneath
the yellow sheets are pictures
of these specialist students.