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General Schedule for my Balanced Classroom

General Schedule of All Classes
(except 8th period which will have an extra 5-10 mins each day of stress reduction activities)
Every day:
- Give out blank papers while I take role.
- Write name, day, and date on top
- Copy topics from whiteboard underneath name etc.
- Prepare to write, draw, or doodle while you listen to my 5-10 minutes start of class.
- Place in “Free Thoughts” (teacher will use for (keys to Cognitive Unconscious) tabbed section of your binder.
- Deliveries during middle to end of class (movement)
Monday:
- Reflect - Teacher
- Introduce - Teacher
- Jigsaw (movement): What's a good STORY that explains our understanding of the <science content> last week? judgment, emotion, keys to Cognitive Unconscious
How can you connect that story to <Science content> that we will do this week? speculation, anticipation, keys to CU
Tuesday:
- Reflect - Teacher
- Discuss activity, list roles - Teacher but that students select or leader assigns (control)
- White board or slate: set up by teacher, facilitated by students (movement) .
- Information or pre-lab: questioned, recorded, tested, modeled - facilitated by students, guided by Background Teacher
Wednesday:
- Reflect - Teacher
- Discuss activity, ist roles - Teacher but that students select or leader assigns (control)
- Physical- hands on Inquiry: expectations set by teacher, distributed by leader students.(movement) Group work questioned and guided by roving Teacher
Thursday:
- Reflect - Teacher
- Discuss activity, assign roles - Teacher
- White Board or Activslate or Activotes: set up by teacher, facilitated by students (movement) .
- Information or post-lab: questioned, recorded, tested, modeled - facilitated by students, guided by Background Teacher
Friday:
- Reflection STORIES - Teacher
- Technology (movement): Students give out laptops or Palms, run a class lab or exploration or chat session using Elluminate or Moodle (student control)
- Best of Day/Week Awards