Something that always strikes me when I am in other countries is how much history and the present live side by side. I have always been a little jealous of people who get to live their daily lives where the signs say “established 1300” or “offering hospitality since 1411” […]
It’s that time of year again, teacher appreciation week! Rather than sending you all virtual mugs that say “world’s greatest teacher” I thought the heads up about the Teachers Pay Teachers teacher appreciation sale would be a nice way to say you are appreciated! Tomorrow, Wednesday, and in my […]
This post needs a disclaimer. I have admittedly only used this method with high schoolers. The homeschool co-op I’m working with right now has a strict no personal technology policy, and honestly I don’t know if all my students even have a phone, so I haven’t been able […]
It’s always interesting to hear what is and is not taught in various high school history classrooms around the country. One teacher might spend 3 weeks on Civil Rights, another only 1 week. One might discuss the Cambodian Genocide and another might not. I know it is a […]
In a perfect world I’d love to teach at a high school where I could (within reason) create my own classes. At my high school, seniors took 6-week seminar style social studies electives and I LOOOOOOVED it. I chose to take one on the 1920s, another on the […]
Before we had our daughter, I had the mindset of “I will not let toys overrun our house,” and “we’re not going to have useless cr*p” lying around.” Well thankfully, 2 years later I’ve been able to stick to the second one. Everything we (or our family) has gotten […]
I’ve always heard mixed reviews over the years about the value, or lack thereof, in showing videos in class. Teachers (and parents even!) have said it’s a cop-out, it’s the teacher being lazy, or even that it’s a sign of the teacher not knowing enough about the topic […]
As a high school teacher (with a majority of honors students each semester), there were things I took for definitely granted which I didn’t realize until the last few months. Among those things were students wearing deodorant, working on a task the first time I said to start, and […]
I prefer baking to cooking because there are specific steps to follow and less guesswork (which is funny because in the classroom I much prefer being able to do my own thing rather than having to follow scripts and check boxes). I am more comfortable with science than art in […]
If you have spent time on Pinterest in the last year or so it’s likely you’ve come across something called “Gallery Walks.” I had seen them starting last summer but hadn’t really had a good opportunity to utilize them last semester (plus there was the huge lapbooking push […]
