classroom management – Teaching English Language Arts

Collected in the Summer for Use All Year

September 21, 2017September 17, 2017 by admin

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Tips for Teaching Here are some interesting links, ideas, and video you may find useful as you plan lessons to engage your students. Some will just be fun, others intriguing, some even challenging to you and your students. I'll add to it as I find new treasures. Enjoy! Simple Way…

ADD TO YOUR 2017-2018 TEACHING TOOLBOX

August 24, 2017August 24, 2017 by admin

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Fresh Strategies to Consider Teachers are generous colleagues and share what works for them in hopes that you'll see it try ideas that you can adapt, engage, and reach more students. Having taught middle school through graduate school students, I find that many of the strategies are interchangeable, especially those that…

Ready for New School Year?

August 3, 2017August 3, 2017 by admin

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New School Year - Are you ready? “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.” (Hale, 1870) For many educators, the beginning of…

Managing Grades

March 13, 2017March 5, 2018 by admin

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It's Not Too Late to Modify Grading Guidelines Four approaches to grading revolutionized my planning and grading for teaching middle, high school and college students. The first occurred after I spent a summer studying and then implementing National Writing Project strategies that include process writing and rubrics, which I customized…

Talk Teaches

January 1, 2017 by admin

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Sentence Starters Invigorate Conversation Guided talking teaches students to think, listen, and rethink. Observing students talking teaches teachers what they need to teach next. Here's a flyer with SENTENCE STARTERS from I found on Pinterest that may be just what you need to jump start conversations between and among students.…

OKAY LATE Pass

September 16, 2016September 16, 2016 by admin

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MAKE IT EASY ON YOURSELF High school and college students often have complex schedules. Events in and out of school that are beyond their control can cause them to skip assignments or endure penalties for late ones. The issue may arise due to sports, arts, a big project in another class, work, family, or…

Students Starters Enhance Teaching

August 10, 2016May 8, 2018 by admin

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Student Starters Now is a good time to plan on releasing more responsibility for learning to your students. The first quarter/semester is when you model reading and writing strategies, making, connections, incorporating a wide variety of examples in your own instruction, and also informing the students that you’ll be sharing the teaching…

Prep for Semester Exam

December 5, 2015December 2, 2014 by admin

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Prepare Now to Assess Begin now and ensure that your students will be ready to do well on the semester exams. First, write in your own words specifically what plan to measure. Consider these ideas. (1) How well students recall what you’ve taught about ______________. (2) How well…

Organizing a Week of Speeches

June 24, 2015January 6, 2018 by admin

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Speaking and Listening in CCSS Consider the two sides of communication: the SPEAKER and the LISTENER as you continue to massage your assignments and scheduling. Because critical listening and useful commenting are skills of equal value to speaking well, I ask students to provide written feedback to each speaker. To…

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

January 15, 2015January 15, 2015 by admin

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Lots of websites offer lessons to celebrate and commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his contributions to our nation and society as a whole. One key way to validate his legacy is to ensure our young people see the value in education. I'm so glad so many of you…

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