SOS online

Many of you may be familiar with the Spotlight on Strategies (SOS) from DE. These are techniques to integrate technology in your classroom.

Shelly Kakouris (from my DEN friends group on Facebook)  recently shared this slide deck with 15 SOS with a digital flair.  Each one contains both the teacher's directions as well as a slide you could use for your students.  The link is here.

6 Word stories to the rescue!

Looking for a quick way to provide an SEL option for your students or perhaps an exit ticket at the end of a lesson?  And if you are doing this hybrid or all remote, you know how efficient you must be.  

Six-word stories (Link for non-Discovery Education accounts -DE users can search after logging in) provides a quick way to obtain feedback from every student in a timely manner.  It is a tool that helps students to summarize.  Special thanks to Wandalyn Jones (SC) for her suggestion at the Discovery Education Virt-Con.

More Top Ten!

Discovery Education has done it again- more top ten Spotlight on Strategies

(SOS).  This time they are focused on college and career readiness. They

are geared to :

    Developing key cognitive strategies
    Mastering core content
    Taking ownership of their learning
    Becoming proficient with a range of learning strategies

Click here for the post.

MORE SOS Top Ten

Many folks attended Discovery Education Spotlight on Strategies (SOS) top ten sessions at the staff development day last month.  Here’s a new one- Change it Up- Stem completion (no sorry, this is not STEM). Please click here to see their suggestions.

How to help your students cite evidence

SOS (Spotlight on Strategies) to the rescue!  Here is a blog post from Discovery Education showcasing the SOS tools that will help your students cite evidence!

A picture is worth

Do you know best how to use Discovery Education Spotlight on Strategies with photos?  Click here to see the collection of activities to use with your students.

Can you hear my SOS?

Discovery Education recently shared a package of their Spotlight on Strategies that deal with audio.  Please click here to see view the entire group.  Sometimes I think sound is underrated and that it plays a bigger part in learning then we admit!

Want to encourage cooperation?

The S.O.S. (Spotlight on Strategies) from Discovery Education this week is
focused on fostering cooperation and teamwork.  Please see their
top ten suggestions here.

Can they really read your mind?

Here’s a new Spotlight on Strategy (from Discovery Education) - Read My Mind!   See if your students can pick out the key terms from a video- how well will they match the list you have prepared?  I think putting the results into a word cloud (i.e, Tagul) would be a great visual for the class.

Walking in a gallery

While I have used versions of the Gallery Walk (some of you might know it as a Discovery Education S.O.S), here’s an interesting post from Edutopia with 5 concrete suggestions to engage your students.

Snowball fight!

Maria Vella shared this short video of her students using one of their favorite Spotlight on Strategies- the snowball  fight!  Check out Discovery Education for a constantly updated source of technology integration ideas.

Since we have a subscription, sign into your account, go to Professional Learning, then select Strategies and Resources.  Scroll down to see Spotlight on Strategies.

Not a subscriber?  Visit the Discovery Education blog here - then search for SOS!

Haloween SOS

Looking to add mix it up using Spotlight on Strategies?  Check out these Halloween mashups- basically two SOS used together.  Click here to read all the suggestions. New to Spotlight on Strategies (or S.O.S.)- sign into your Discovery Education account and search.