I've been asked to share my truth: what's your morning routine? And I did it using Adobe Spark Pages.
I’d like to present SIX tech tools for teachers worth adding to your list of considerations. If you are feeling comfortable where you are and ready to implement something new, or maybe you’re happy where you are, but you need just one more solution to an issue that you’re having, I have been using these six tools faithfully and I want to recommend them to you with confidence.
If you are ready to tackle some fresh, new ideas this upcoming National Poetry Month or during other parts of your school year, I gathered together some of the best poetry minds that I know out here in the teacher blogging community. Together, we’ve come up with twelve ideas to try during National Poetry Month and I’ve broken them into categories for you: COLLABORATE, PLAY, DIG, CREATE, & REACH.
With a little extra down-time during the holidays, I love curling up with my phone or computer to finally read the articles that I’ve had bookmarked or saved from the past year. With the hectic craziness of teacher-life, I feel like I only half-read articles, even when I’m DYING to read them! If you’re finding yourself with a teeny bit more reading time than usual, you have to check out this list. These are my Top 20 Blog Posts to Read Before 2020 - buckle up and get reading!
This year, I have a mixture of teaching related articles from friends of mine (saving grading time, first chapter Friday, scaffolding strategies), some fascinating photo journalism from The New York Times, a Ta-Neheisi Coates article on reparations from 2015 that I still haven’t fully digested, and more!
Teaching essay writing is no simple task:
The pressure is on: this is a skill that students need, are tested on, and will need to harness for the next grade level all the way into college.
Students somehow forget what they’ve learned in between assignments. I mean...how many times do I have to teach you what CLAIM is?!?! We JUST went over it!
There are just TOO MANY skills all depending on each other. Every time we teach an essay, we feel compelled to teach and grade everything, from selecting best evidence to writing a correct MLA header!