Resources: Middleborough Public Schools Humanities Padlet Sites

Padlet is a website that provides a blank wall on which you can add anything you'd like with a double click.  Padlet can be used to collaborate and communicate in our Professional Learning Communities, in our classrooms (be sure to review with students our Technology AUP), and in our community.

Below you will see the URLs for a variety of MPS Padlets focused on Humanities Departments, Literacy, and Curriculum Tools.  All Humanities Teachers have the ability to add resources to the wall or you can forward along recommendations to Humanities Director, Liz Haskell or to your Department Leader. 

Please take a look and let us know what you think! 

Middleborough Public Schools Humanties Padlet Sites

MPS Curriculum Tools:  http://padlet.com/wall/MPSCurriculumTools

MPS Literacy Team: http://padlet.com/wall/MPSLiteracyTeam

MPS Fine Arts: http://padlet.com/wall/MPSFineArts

MHS English: http://padlet.com/wall/MHSEnglishDepartment

MHS Foreign Language: http://padlet.com/wall/MHSFLDepartment

MHS Social Studies: http://padlet.com/wall/MHSSocialStudies

NMS ELA:  http://padlet.com/wall/NMSELA

NMS Social Studies: http://padlet.com/wall/NMSSocialStudies

Article: 6 Ways Teachers Can Use Google Hangouts

As MPS switches over to become a Google School this fall, this article may be of interest to teachers.  Please share with us how you use Google Hangout with your students!

6 Ways Teachers Can Use Google Hangouts

http://thejournal.com/articles/2013/09/17/6-ways-teachers-can-use-google-hangouts.aspx?=THE21

Welcome to the 2013-2014 School Year!

Welcome back, Humanities Teachers!

I hope you had an opportunity to refresh, recharge, and renew over the (very short) summer weeks.  Today was the first day with students, and as hectic as it is, the energy in the schools as I walked through made me smile!

We have a lot of "initiatives" that we are going to be working on throughout this school year.  I remember when I was a classroom teacher, listening to the administrative team talk about the focus of our work for the year and feeling stressed.  Now, the number of initiatives have multiplied, and I am a member of the administrative team stressing everyone out (including myself)!

So in an effort to ease peoples' minds (I created this in an effort to ease my own mind), I have broken down the work that we are doing and the focus of our work for the rest of the year.

Curriculum:
Curriculum Unit Design Stage 1 and portions of Stage 2 based on the Understanding by Design (UbD) model - Early Release Days & Department PLCs
 
Instruction:
Teachers 21 Course: The Effective Teacher: Leading and Learning
 
Assessment:
Stage 2 of UbD Unit design (primary focus 2014-2015)

New Educator Evaluation System:
Focus on Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Data to support a proficiency rating according to the Educator Rubric

Some might think that I have oversimplified the initiatives that we as a district are focused on, but we hope you will see how they are all intertwined and woven together to help us support high student achievement and excellence as evidenced by college and career ready Middleborough graduates.

Best wishes for a great school year!