About a month ago, Margie Brown, the Ed Tech at VVE, shared a post that she had written on a project that Nancy Abell had done in her GT Classes at VVE. In an effort to help her students understand the concept of Memes, Nancy helped students create Memes which encouraged positive behaviors across the campus.
I shared that post with the faculty and staff at EE and soon after, Amy Ashorn, one of our counselors, contacted me and suggested that we collaborate on similar lessons to be used with our 5th Graders. It was such a great opportunity for me as I seldom get the chance to partner with the counselors on the campuses that I am assigned to. We spent time together over a period of a couple of weeks organizing the details of our lesson and were able to deliver it to all 5 Fifth Grade Classes last Friday.
I shared that post with the faculty and staff at EE and soon after, Amy Ashorn, one of our counselors, contacted me and suggested that we collaborate on similar lessons to be used with our 5th Graders. It was such a great opportunity for me as I seldom get the chance to partner with the counselors on the campuses that I am assigned to. We spent time together over a period of a couple of weeks organizing the details of our lesson and were able to deliver it to all 5 Fifth Grade Classes last Friday.
Ms. Ashorn began each lesson by reading the students a book about Expected and Unexpected behaviors titled "You are a Social Detective! Explaining Social Thinking to Kids". She stopped frequently to ask questions and to let students respond to those questions.
We explained to students that they were the keepers of the majority of information about Expected Behaviors on our campus because they had been here the longest. Therefore, we needed to find a way for them to share that knowledge with our younger students.
We shared that we had decided to use Memes for this purpose and I spent a few minutes explaining what Memes were. We showed them some sample Memes made by students in Nancy Abell's class.
The 5th Graders used a QR code to get to the Google Folder that contained the background images that they could choose from and they were off!
The 5th Graders used a QR code to get to the Google Folder that contained the background images that they could choose from and they were off!
The students used Keynote to create their Meme and once they had completed it, they took a screenshot and emailed it to me. The last step in the process is that the Leadership Team will spend some time looking through the submissions and deciding which ones to display across the campus as reminders of Expected Behaviors.
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