Professional Development – Teaching English Language Arts

Reflecting and Projecting on Practice

May 10, 2022May 21, 2022 by admin

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End of the School Year? A Good Time to Reflect Are you a new teacher? A veteran in the classroom? Or a student teacher just starting to plan for and work with students on your own? Wondering how to get off to a good start? Yes, the end of the…

GETTING TO KNOW THEM

July 10, 2019July 12, 2019 by admin

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Opening Week Activities to Learn More about Students Here are five ideas that may be adapted for various content areas. See adaptations at the links. The assignments can be as simple or complex as time and resources permit. I've used them all as first week assignment and students do…

Prepping for New School Year

August 3, 2018September 28, 2018 by admin

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Getting Off to a Good Start As the school year begins, and you're considering the range of ideas to improve or modify your teaching, think about using GENERAL GRADING GUIDELINES (at this link), and ask students to commit to earning the grade of their choice. Then do what you can to help…

Books for Boys

November 25, 2017December 4, 2017 by admin

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Perhaps, because so many elementary and middle school teachers are female, the books on our standard reading lists tend to appeal more to students of that same gender. Not sure if that's the case, but admittedly teachers of young men in all grades recognize that our male students often are…

Maximizing Meetings and Maintaining Morale Handout

August 14, 2015September 11, 2017 by admin

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Department chairs regularly seek for ways to use meeting time more efficiently and to keep up the spirits of their department members. Attached are ideas planned for the "Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn: Leading New Initiatives with Love, Agency, and Energy"session at the National Council of Teachers of English held…

Presentations for NCTE and CEL 2014

November 9, 2014November 26, 2014 by admin

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NCTE and CEL 2014 were Inspiring! [caption id="" align="alignright" width="150"] from ncte.org/annual[/caption] Thanks for joining me in Washington, DC area , November 19-25 for the 2014 National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention at the Gaylord National Harbor in Oxin Hill, MD. Story As the Landscape of Knowing ANDERSON BOOKS had my…

Teaching Freshmen about Thinking

July 15, 2014September 25, 2015 by admin

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Teaching Ninth Graders (Freshmen) New teachers of ninth grade or freshmen students often are surprised at how literal their students are at the beginning of the school year. Some are disappointed that these high school students don’t seem very mature; so few are able to see the subtleties in literature…

Summer Institute on Assessment

June 23, 2014June 23, 2014 by admin

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Still time to register and attend! Institute on Critical Issues: Assessment July 17-19, 2014 No matter the status of your school assessment plans, the Institute on Critical Issues: Assessment provides a phenomenal opportunity to write, review, or critique them. The Institute, with its focus on assessment for school leaders and teachers, offers you the…

Summer Institute 2014 on Assessment

June 13, 2014June 23, 2014 by admin

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Assessment, Evaluation, Assessment Need time to expand your understanding of options for teacher evaluation, student evaluation and curriculum design evaluation? Come to Conference on English Leadership's Summer Institute on Critical Issues. This year the feature is ASSESSMENT and we'll be meeting July 17-19 on Elmhurst College campus, (near Chicago) to…

On Leadership – May

May 15, 2014May 10, 2014 by admin

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More Effective Meetings Do you have an end of the year meetings to plan and lead? Here are some ideas that confirm some discussed at NCTE 2014 leadership workshops* in Boston. See article How to get the most out of faculty meetings By Naphtali Hoff on May 1st, 2014 Will one of…

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