Tim Kitson

The SLO target calculator is a useful Google spreadsheet that calculates all your student-growth targets automatically (Excel version available). Using a “close the gap by half” model, this spreadsheet takes the guessing game out of setting growth targets for students. It assigns an aggressive, yet attainable goal. Example: If a student scores 50% on their SLO pre-test, they should score 75% by the end of the year. Example: If a student scores 30% on their SLO pre-test, they should score 6

Are you a school administrator who wants to make SLO score reporting easy for teachers? Do you want to streamline the reporting process of evaluating teacher reports? A school-wide license of the SLO Target Calculator is the solution you're looking for! Upon purchasing this product, you will receive directions to contact me. I will work with you directly to provide individual copies of the SLO Target calculator to each staff member, saving you and your teachers time. Don't have Google Drive

This 12-question multiple-choice quiz asks thought-provoking questions about chapters 20-30 of Kate Chopin's The Awakening. Success requires careful, close reading of the text.

This 10-question multiple-choice quiz asks students inference-based questions about the closing chapters of Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening.

This 11-question quiz mixes true/false and multiple-choice questions to test students' high-level thinking about Kate Chopin's novella, The Awakening.

Kids and adults need to learn about personal finance and budgeting. Years ago, we would have to carry around receipts and record expenditures in our checkbooks. Now you can check a Google spreadsheet on your smartphone. Teach kids about budgeting with this personal budget spreadsheet. Make simple predictions about your monthly income and decide what percentage you should spend in categories like groceries, utilities, and clothes. For the price of a game on your phone you can learn to make a

This is a 10-question multiple-choice quiz over chapters 7-13 of Kate Chopin's The Awakening. These are all original questions that cannot be answered easily through a Google search.

Looking for challenging, plot-based questions about Kate Chopin's The Awakening? Look no further! This quiz gives you multiple choice questions as a starter set for chapters 1-6 of The Awakening, along with a short-answer question that gets students thinking carefully about Edna's character. The file format can easily be converted into web-based services like Schoology and Moodle for automatic grading and score reporting. Save time by spending just $1.00.

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is once again relevant in today's literature classrooms. This powerpoint offers contemporary discussion questions and quick-write prompts for students for the second half of the book. Questions that students might find edgy or controversial are marked with a red background to indicate the teacher should use discretion. Topics included are single-parent households, victim-blaming, racial depictions in literature, the pow

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is once again relevant in today's literature classrooms. This powerpoint offers contemporary discussion questions and quick-write prompts for students for the first 12 chapters of the book. Questions that students might find edgy or controversial are marked with a red background to indicate the teacher should use discretion. Topics included are hypocrisy, slut-shaming, separation of children from their families at th

This fully developed lesson plan has all you need to get your students reading The Awakening at a very high level. Kate Chopin's novella stands out as a feminist literary work, but what might other critical examinations of the text reveal? Give your students the basic tools they need to understand critical theory and the novel in less than 60 minutes. This lesson plan also includes a Google Drive link to a slideshow that uses pictures and discussion to teach students about critical literary t

Students consider the layers of identity and how people can lead hidden, unknown lives. The worksheet pulls quotations from The Awakening, The Great Gatsby, and the writings of Henry David Thoreau to ask students powerful questions about their own identities.

This product automatically determines the best price for your TpT products. Simply tell the spreadsheet how much you're thinking about charging, and it automatically calculates how many items you must sell to make a profit. Thinking about selling a product that took a long time to make? This spreadsheet can also factor in your hourly rate for work! You may calculate prices for digital AND physical goods! When you download this product, you will be given a link to the original google docum

This spreadsheet records the hours you work and calculates your wages based on your hourly rate. Now you can keep track of your extra teaching jobs simply and easily! This google spreadsheet allows for real-time collaboration with your partners. Working on a team? Simply duplicate this sheet for each member. It's all free! When you download this product, you receive a certificate with a link to the original google document. Some document readers ask if you "trust" the link. I promise it'

This quickwrite prompt pairs Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem "We Wear the Mask" with a brief character analysis of Edna Pontellier. Students write about about the multiple, simultaneous lives people often lead and how they affect us.

Do you want a lesson plan that organizes all its details in a simple, easy-to-read way? Are you in college and want to impress your professor with your ideas? Are you an administrator that wants to help a struggling teacher sharpen his/her craft? If so, this lesson plan template is for you. So much thought and planning goes into a lesson plan it's often hard to keep all the details straight. A teacher may have a new idea for a way to teach a concept, but forget to consider differentiation.