Music at Moonlight

Digital citizenship should be taught to students starting as young as kindergarten. Digital citizenship helps students be safe while using the internet. It helps them to protect themselves and others. It teaches them how to properly communicate with people all over the world. Most students do not learn about digital citizenship at home, so it is important to teach it at school. In the article  What Your Students Really Need to Know About Digital Citizenship , Vicki Davis discussed "9 Key Ps" of digital citizenship: passwords, private information, personal information, photographs, property, permission, protection, professionalism, and personal brand. All of these are good starting points on what to teach students and how all of these "Ps" can effect them if not taken seriously. Not only are these points good for students to know, it is also a good reminder for adults. An article like this would be good to share with families at home. After discussing all of the Ps...

In my school community I would rake the following activities in this order from most critical to least critical: wraparound services, fun with friends and extracurricular activities, safe care, and deeper learning. I believe all of these activities are important for student learning, but the wraparound services stuck out to me the most. My school is a title one school and the majority of students live in a trailer park. About 40% of students do not live with their parents and instead live with grandparents, other relatives, or foster care. In order to create an ideal learning environment for our students, my school could integrate practices "to help not only the students but also their neighborhoods and even the child-rearing practices of their parents" (Horn & Staker, pg. 83). I think that by helping the whole surrounding community it would help students to feel safe and loved and they would feel more encouraged to learn and not worry about what is going on at home. I ...

In my classroom I currently have one computer and an interactive whiteboard (IWB). In my first two years of teaching I used this computer and projector mainly as a presentation device. This year I have been using my IWB more often and have seen great results. My students were fully engaged in lessons and students who do not normally speak out or like to participate were coming up to the board to answer questions or play review games. I was still teaching the same content that I had done in the past, but now I was able to engage more students and have a better outcome by using the IWB. I would like to have more devices in my room so that students could compose songs together or individually. We could also do more independent research on composers or musicians. There are several other lesson or new ideas that I would like to be able to incorporate individual devices with, but my school does not currently have that option. This coming school year our 4th graders are supposed to be getti...