Get Innovative

Here are 18 things to try to be innovative and get out of your comfort zone. Try at least 4.

1. Create a twitter account – Use students to be the guest “tweeter” every day to summarize what they learned that day. Try to come up with a clever class hashtag to use and incorporate your school or district hashtag as well. (#SageASL #cusdlearns #scbobcats). 
2. Create a classroom Instagram – Here are 10 ways you can use Instagram in the classroom.
3. Find a new game to play in the classroom – I have created some games specific to ASL or create, borrow, or Google a new idea. Students love to use games to learn.
4. Ditch worksheets – Find creative, level-appropriate communication activities by using crazy topics, TEDtalks and other ideas that connect to student interest.  
5. Create a Meme project – Add pop culture to your classroom.
6. Create a historical timeline – Turn your classroom into a historical timeline by using student work and research. Use student-generated work and let them become a “living” museum. 
7. Assign an animated book report – If you require reading as part of your curriculum, try a new way to do a book report.
8. Go paperless – Using Google Classroom is an amazing place to start. Try using no paper for a week.
9. Redesign your bulletin boards or walls – Use your space to be creative. Don’t leave the same things up for 10 months. Try ideas here or find a new poster here.  
10. Use a student as a guest speaker – Use Screencastify to allow students to take over. Start here.
11. Thematic Units – Throw out the textbook and create an authentic, original lesson on a topic that really connects with your students and is relevant for this century.
12. Redesign your classroom space – Get creative, incorporate flexible seating or rearrange your space.
13. Follow a new blog – There are a lot of great blogs out there that have to do with teaching and best practices. Try one thing you read and share with others in a Facebook group.
14. Try a new app – Use a new app in the classroom. Maybe it is for partner activities, keeping track of points, partnering up students or playing a game.  
15. Flip your classroom – Try one lesson a unit to add variety to your classroom.
16. Join a Twitter chat – Twitter chats can help you get the professional development you need. You can learn from various professional groups by searching hashtags.
17. Use Pear Deck – this is an interactive way for you to engage students in the world langague. It is a Google exstention that makes your Slide presentations interactive adn allows you to check understanding on the spot.
18. Try a new online game – Gimkit is the best. Students love it. You can add GIFs (get them from TpT here) and let the learnign adn review begin.

How many of these innovative classroom ideas will you try in your classroom?

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