The official blog of Mr. Hubbard's Class. Dublin Unified's Teacher of the Year for 2016-2017. Besides knowing what happens every day while in class, I will also post information on parenting, learning and teaching.
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Tuesday, September 22, 2015 Week 5
Bloom's Taxonomy |
Monday, September 14, 2015
Monday, September 14, 2015
Stanford's Educator Night on Saturday |
- The times do change and they are not always 100% accurate because learning is dynamic and a human endeavour. Plus sometimes we add things as the day goes along.
The common core gods do not approve of the use of bunny with place value. |
- End of Fourth Grade Assessment
- Week 1 end of week daily common core math test
- Lesson 1 Quiz
Thursday, August 27, 2015
Thursady, August 27, 2015 Day
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Wednesday, August 26, 2015 Day 1
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Parents in my 2015-2016 class please complete this quick information survey....
Please click here to access the quick data base survey.
This will help me build up an easy way to contact a student's family when we have class updates or they have achieved something awesome.
Thank you so much.
Mr. Hubbard
Thursday, August 20, 2015
It is hard to describe..but I'll try anyways
Really, you just found out right now? Let me share with you how the creation of a class plays out.
When you are 5th grade teacher you rely on the 4th grade teachers to make the class list and they determine who will be your students/team/comrades/heroes for the next ten months. I know this sounds crazy but if you want to influence where you child lands in 5th grade, your lattes, scones and/or gift cards should be given to the 4th grade teachers. Why? 4th and the administrators put multiple hours into the creation of the next year's classes.
They factor in prior family relationships between the teacher & family, how many squirrely students are in each class, does each class have an equal amount of boys and girls, does each class have an equal amount of rebels, an equal amount of students prone to start a revolution, an equal amount of students prone to take a vow of 6 hour silence and really do it, and most importantly which teacher would best meet the needs of each student's unique personality type.
So as of June when we leave for summer break the classes have been expertly created and "in theory" should be equally formed. Often at that time, the 5th grade teachers will get a tentative list however those class are hypothetical at best.
Then summer happens.
Families move into the district and they move out of the district, the school's numbers evolve and the district's numbers also evolve. In early August this year there were discussions about a 4/5 split or a 3/4 split or no splits. Then some summers based on how moving shakes out in your neighborhood each class will receive X amount of students from outside the district. All scenarios create contingency plans with reshuffling of the finely tuned June classes.
I believe one summer, five students moved away over the summer from my tentative June class list. While only one new fifth grader moved into the neighborhood. That entailed 4th grade having to equally redistribute the classes so I didn't have four less students than every other class. As I described above, 4th grade didn't just haphazardly take away four students, it entailed them sitting down and playing a game of chess. Except it is chess like Spock and Captain Kirk played where every move predicated another movement happening. They put a ton of thought of meeting the criteria of what is best for the student and understanding group dynamics and chemistry.
Therefore you don't know who exactly will be in your class until practicality demands that a line be drawn in the sand and classes are created. So I now know and I can now type their names into my spreadsheet.
Let the 2015-2016 school year begin.
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
More Mindset Resources
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The Myth of 'I'm Bad at Math' - Miles Kimball & Noah Smith - The Atlantic
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Mindset Works®: Student Motivation through a Growth Mindset, by Carol Dweck, Ph.D.
tags: mindset motivation dweck resources
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Teaching Students the ABCs of Resilience | Edutopia
tags: resilience learning mindset Dweck
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MathCoach Blog | Learning about the Brain
tags: education development brains kids Dweck children think science learning
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Early Education and Development FINAL W ABSTRACT 08-11.doc
tags: education development brains kids Dweck children think science developmental pdf
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What do Children Think about their Brains? - Developmental Science Laboratory
tags: brains kids Dweck children think science developmental
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Inscribed upon my wrist: Emphasizing effort to empower learning SmartBlogs
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success:Amazon:Books
About to spend an afternoon with Carol Dweck, author of 'Mindset' http://t.co/OOWQpHhL
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The Brainology® Program: Cultivate a Growth Mindset, by Carol Dweck, Ph.D.
tags: brainology brain learning mindset education dweck brain research growth praise
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STANFORD Magazine: March/April 2007 > Features > Mind-set Research
tags: education psychology brain parenting
More Work Reading and Learning w/ Grit
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Angela Lee Duckworth: The key to success? Grit | Video on TED.com
'We need to be gritty about getting our kids grittier.' Angela Lee Duckworth: The key to success? Grit http://t.co/cAjyyeYa9S #sbgchat
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The New Way to Identify Talent: The G Factor « The Talent Code
tags: talent talentcode grit ownership
- One is early ownership. As Marjie Elferink-Gemser’s work shows, one pattern of successful athletes happens when they’re 13 or so, when they develop a sense of ownership of their training. For the ones who succeed, this age is when they decide that it’s not enough to simply be an obedient cog in the development machine — they begin to go farther, reaching beyond the program, deciding for themselves what their workouts will be, augmenting and customizing and addressing their weaknesses on their own.
- Another tell is grit. This quality, investigated by the pioneering work of Angela Duckworth, refers to that signature combination of stubbornness, resourcefulness, creativity and adaptability that helps someone make the tough climb toward a longterm goal. Duckworth has come up with a simple questionnaire that measures the responder’s grit. It has only 17 questions, and the respondent self-assesses their ability to stick with a project, see a goal to the end, etc. (You can take it online here.)
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What is talent – A growth mindset approach (1/2) ·
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What is talent – A growth mindset approach (1/2) · BelievePerform
How to apply a growth mindset in sport http://t.co/0ev455zxPw
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Challenge The Deficit Mindsets in Education
My New Post: Ditching Our Attachment to Deficit Mindsets > http://t.co/TjYgmz4XTA Please spread the word #diversity http://t.co/epyZnIb3pG
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Growth Mindset Reflective Questions for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
Growth Mindset Reflective Questions for Teachers http://t.co/YvpVhDnypg http://t.co/Y9xEgN2u38
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9 Effective Questions to Help Students Develop A Growth Mindset http://t.co/UXWcPGvN0l
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The Myth of 'I'm Bad at Math' - Miles Kimball & Noah Smith - The Atlantic
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People with a fixed mindset worry about how they w
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People with a fixed mindset worry about how they will be judged, people with a growth mindset are concerned with the learning
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I'm crafting a new blog post, centered on ways tha
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I'm crafting a new blog post, centered on ways that teaching in Finland is slowly transforming my mindset as teacher. It's coming out soon!
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Malcolm Gladwell Outliers - The Educator's PLN
10,000 hours of practice needed before mastery. Takes a growth mindset for sure. http://t.co/vLcv2fOYWw #mindset13
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Mindset Works®: Student Motivation through a Growth Mindset, by Carol Dweck, Ph.D.
tags: mindset motivation dweck resources
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Teaching Students the ABCs of Resilience | Edutopia
tags: resilience learning mindset Dweck
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Inscribed upon my wrist: Emphasizing effort to empower learning SmartBlogs
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success:Amazon:Books
About to spend an afternoon with Carol Dweck, author of 'Mindset' http://t.co/OOWQpHhL
tags: tweet
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NEW post "Very Interesting (& Different) Post On “Fixed” Versus “Growth” Mindsets" http://t.co/mmZqxhPa
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The Brainology® Program: Cultivate a Growth Mindset, by Carol Dweck, Ph.D.
tags: brainology brain learning mindset education dweck brain research growth praise
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Identifying Talent: What Really Matters « The Talent Code
All of this is a roundabout way of making a simple point: we fail at talent identification because we’re looking in the wrong place. We instinctively look at performance (which is visual, measurable) instead of mindset and identity, which are what really
tags: coaching talentcode