Teaching Middle School Math

This is a tool for students to plan and reflect as they are starting the school year. This product:Quarter 1:-Focuses on creating SMART goals -Makes students think about and plan how they will study for tests -Makes students think and write about their personal purpose for going to school and working hard. This part uses a video about knowing your why. To find this, youtube search "Michael Jr. Know Your Why" and click on the first video. It should be about 3:40 long. Quarter 2:-Focuses on creati

This is a tool for students to plan and reflect as they are towards the end of the school year. This product: -Focuses on reflection of the student's behavior -Makes students reflect on their behavior in the classroom and the productivity or lack of productivity it causes -Makes students reflect on their personal growth and whether they are helpful to their own learning -Makes students reflect on their growth towards their year-long goals -Makes students create action plans to reach their goals

This is a tool for students to plan and reflect as they are starting the school year. This product: -Focuses on creating SMART goals -Makes students think about and plan how they will study for tests -Makes students think and write about their personal purpose for going to school and working hard. This part uses a video about knowing your why. To find this, youtube search "Michael Jr. Know Your Why" and click on the first video. It should be about 3:40 long. Included in this download: -PDF versi

This is a tool for students to plan and reflect as they are continuing through the school year. This product: -Focuses on creating SMART goals -Focuses on creating action plans to reach their goals -Makes students reflect on how they did in quarter 1 -Makes students plan how they will do well in quarter 2 -Makes students reflect on their behaviors in and out of class, and whether they are productive or unproductive to their learning Included in this download: -PDF version of the goal setting -W

This is a tool for students to reflect on their behaviors and habits to become better students with better study habits. These should be used immediately after students complete a test or exam and should be referred back to periodically throughout the year to help students with their continual self-reflection. This product: -Allows students to reflect on their study habits leading up to a test immediately after taking that test -Helps students become more self-aware of their behaviors in and out

This is a tool for students to plan and reflect as they are continuing through the school year. This product: -Focuses on creating SMART goals and ongoing reflection of previous SMART goals from quarters 1 and 2 -Focuses on creating action plans to reach their goals -Makes students reflect on how they did in class in quarters 1 and 2 -Makes students reflect on goals they accomplished and did not accomplish from quarters 1 and 2 -Makes students plan how they will do well and be productive in quar

This is an activity that students work on by themselves to tell you about themselves. This is a great way for: -Students to have a chance to tell you about themselves -You to get to know your students -You to have a quick guide to information to individualize problems for your students throughout the year.

This is a great resource to use at the beginning of the school year to get to know your students! I also like to refer to these throughout the year to personalize lessons and problems for my students by using their likes and favorites!