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Students Starters Enhance Teaching

August 10, 2020November 22, 2020 by admin

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Student Starters in Virtual Setting 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…

Thoughts to Share with Students

September 4, 2015September 8, 2015 by admin

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Children's Books Teach Us All We sometimes think children's book are only for children. But there is wisdom to be gleaned for us all. Invite your students to bring in their favorite children's book and share a quotation that has inspired them. Here's a link with a few quotations to get you started. Enjoy…

Prepare in the Fall for Spring Assessments

August 20, 2015September 8, 2015 by admin

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Practice Debates ⇒Argumentative Essays Meeting Common Core State Standards is not the only reason to have students learn to think about claims, reasons, counter-aguments, and evidence. The four major assessments students will face in the near future ask them to show they know to read deeply and write an organized…

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…