Whatever you do, make sure you know what you're testing/assessing them on first. You shouldn't spend a week teaching something then just pull a...
Our prom is Saturday night, and Senior Skip Day is the following Monday. It's not encouraged or anything, but it's tradition. We're a small...
I have/had a student this semester who was only attending school because of a court order saying he had to. He was MIA for the first 3 weeks,...
I haven't seen it done recently, but when I first started teaching, one of the veterans, now retired, told me that she used to hire a sub to come...
Ultimately you're there for the students, and it seems they want you to stay. That's a powerful reason not to leave. BUT... Working under an...
That will be interesting! I think it's important to keep in mind that GSAW was the first draft of TKAM. So many people (especially students)...
I love the Shakespeare Set Free way of teaching! I used it for R&J quite a lot! The choral reading of that scene sounds amazing!
I'm not sure anymore. I taught 9th grade forever, and I loved To Kill a Mockingbird. I taught the snot out of that book, and I'm not exaggerating...
I sympathize with the pencil plight. I always start out the year with a bounty of lovely pencils and pens that I swear I'm not lending out, and by...
I hear ya. I get burnt out too, and this year has somehow seemed to both fly by and drag on forever. It's like I cannot believe it's almost over,...
Do you have access to laptops/Chromebooks/iPads for all of your students on a daily basis? If so, the site Newsela is a wonderful collection of...
Wow, my heart goes out to you, applesnap. I wouldn't have made it past the first year of teaching in a school/district like yours. How in the...
Our district is moving to it next year. I've looked at the free demo of it already, and it looks cool.
I think the key thing you point out is being yourself. That was the game-changing piece of advice my first principal gave me when I was still a...
First of all, I'm sorry you work in a district that discourages student accountability, thereby making your job twice as hard. I cannot imagine...
That's what I have to look forward to tomorrow. Oh joy. I went out yesterday and spent about five hours working on my room, and I'm so glad I...
Student- centered to me means the students are being responsible for their own learning. Shift the responsibility more onto the students and then...
