Teachers
Using Inspiration
Inspiration
Software sent t-shirts to twelve of the teachers listed on this page, to compliment
their great work.
Click here to see the shot!
If
you have questions about any of these diagrams, send an e-mail
KUDOS to Sue Erichsen for being
featured in Inspiration's May
2002 Newsletter, "Flashes of Inspiration." The article deals
with how the program helps students organize their thoughts prepare for
the Regents exams.
In
the class, "Inspiring Minds Want to Know," teachers learn how to
use the graphic organizer software program, Inspiration. After learning
the mechanics of the program, they are given plenty of time to apply the
skills to their own curriculum, and have prepared many webs to use with
their students in the classroom, with other teachers, or for parents, as
a presentation tool.
Grade
One
Margaret Belanger
and Judy Mayes (Ben Franklin School)
Grade
Two
Deb Strianese (Ben
Franklin School) created a Character Web for her students
to use after reading a story.
Maryclare Hefele (Thomas
Jefferson School) created these webs for many of her second grade units:
Grade
Three
Here is a web to use
on "Meet the Teacher" night to provide an overview
of the third grade curriculum.
Terri Wilkowski (Thomas
Jefferson School) created four webs for her class:
Grade
Four
Arlene Korngold (Thomas
Jefferson School) created a web to guide her students through the process of writing
a book report based on a biography.
Grade
Five
Mary Eickler (Van Cort)
created a Harry Potter web.
Middle
School
Spanish: Kelly Rampolla
created these webs:
Spanish and French:
Stacy Bernstein created these webs to support understanding of the novels that
her Spanish and French students were reading:
Stacy also created this
web to help students with Spanish Accents.
Grade Six: Judy
Toledano (Thomas Jefferson School) created two webs:
Grade Six: Michelle
Reuter (Ben Franklin School) created two webs:
Science Teacher
Kathy Basile (Lakeland Copper Beech Middle School) created a rainforest
diagram.
Foreign Language Teacher,
Fran Cerabona (Lakeland Copper Beech Middle School), created a Spanish
vocabulary diagram.
High
School
Spanish Teacher
Maria Carreira created these webs for her unit on food:
English Teacher
Sue Lozinski created these webs for her students:
Resource Room Teacher,
Toni Ambrosio (Lakeland High School) created a web to help her students
with Study Skills.
Principal,
Marc Gessin (Alternative High School) created a web, Inspiration
As A Teacher Tool to demonstrate the program's uses for his staff.
English Teacher,
Laraine Cubeta and Jeanette Gianelli (Lakeland High School) created two
webs for their students:
English teacher,
Sue Erichsen, shows us just one of the many webs she created for her 10th grade
students who are reading "Huckleberry Finn."
Special Education
teacher Andrea Rothstein, created a character web for her students to use in
their study of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." The
students completed the web and then used it as a framework when writing their
character analysis essay.
Business Education
Teacher, Debbie Hauser, created an Accounting web for
her business education students.
Special
Areas
Reading Teacher
Joan Billows created these diagrams for helping students in reading comprehension:
Elementary Music Teacher
Nancy Semcken created these diagrams:
Elementary Physical
Education Teacher Ann Everingham created these diagrams for the P.E. department:
Enrichment Teacher
Sally Simon created these graphic organizers. The first three were designed
to accompany a WebQuest on the Boston Massacre. The other one is to introduce
a unit on flight.
Art Teacher
Polly Halim (Thomas Jefferson School) created a web worksheet for her students
to complete to compare the artists, Picasso and Matisse.
Art Teacher Lindi
Gessin (Lakeland High School) created a web on Careers
in Art for her high school students.
Music Teacher,
Lorraine Cich (Thomas Jefferson School) created several webs:
For All Grades:
Linda Brandon (District Technology Trainer) created a web to use for Web
Page Evaluation Criteria.
If
you have questions about any of these diagrams, send an e-mail
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Lakeland Central
School District
Shrub Oak, NY 10588
