Repurposing available tools in new and innovative ways to transform learning We’ve all had those days when technology doesn’t cooperate, leaving that innovative lesson plan we’ve worked so hard on to fall apart. I crafted a differentiated lesson using a popular web-based educational technology (ed tech) software for a drawing unit. Enthusiasm quickly dissipated when
Embracing humor in the classroom invites creativity, reduces stress, and enhances retention Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” – Victor Borge In my first year of teaching, I taught kindergarten. There are moments from that year that parallel later moments teaching middle school because in both, students are figuring out the spoken and
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Using code-switching to improve writing IMHO, LOL, OIC, OMG. If you’ve recently graded middle school or high school writing, chances are you’ve read terms like these; or my favorite, “wtf – idk” which also happened to be an answer on a student’s quiz. As a middle school English teacher, I became more and more perplexed to
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Independent reading assignments open students’ minds and hearts One of my favorite days of the year is when I give students their first independent reading assignment. I believe the best way to keep the love of reading alive is for students to read what they love and share their experience with their peers in a
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How educators can help students repair damaged relationships and make behavioral changes The eighth-grade girl approached Tom Adams in the cafeteria. “Dylan just asked out Samantha as a joke,” she said. “Now he’s laughing about it with his friends, and Samantha is sitting at our table crying.” Adams, the principal of Newfane Middle School in
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Found poetry encourages readers to choose important details from text that they can use to demonstrate and share meaning Much of the writing we assign our students is public writing—writing to communicate with others. Writing-to-learn is personal writing, writing that helps students increase comprehension of texts—fiction and nonfiction—in all disciplines. Reader response compels readers to
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