In just about a month, students around the world (or at least the northern hemisphere) will be asking their social studies teachers, “why do we have to study history?” Of course there are great answers to that question, it’s just a matter of whether teachers spoon feed students the answers […]
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 […]
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 […]
No one wants to get in a teaching rut. That leads to a bored teacher and bored students which turns into not-so-engaged students which decreases their chances for learning and retaining information. So one thing I try to do is use different strategies/techniques/activities each time we get to a […]
When I was introduced to list-group-label in my education classes, I mentally scoffed at it. I didn’t see the value in it, I thought it was painlessly simplistic, and that it couldn’t possibly offer any real value to students. Well, I officially take all that back. I’ve used […]
Every year teachers learn new tips and tricks, have personal “lesson learned” experiences, or teach a new grade level or content area and have to learn new teaching techniques or subjects. I’ve joined a blog hop with other secondary teachers to share what we’ve learned in 2015 and what […]
Well there was a huge learning curve for me this semester but I feel like I’ve kept my head above water. I feel like I have a good grasp on what type of work challenges my kids, what is a good match for them, and what is an […]
This is our last week before Thanksgiving Break so I figured I’d try something new with my students. One of the really nice things about this home school setting is that I more or less have a lot of liberty in choosing (experimenting really) the activities the kids […]
Well round 2 of lapbooking was a (mostly) huge success and we will for sure be using them in Music Theory next week! This time around I had 20 explorers for the kids to choose from (no duplicates) and they made a lapbook about their explorer’s life/times/accomplishments/failures/etc. They […]
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