Working Over Winter Break: How to Prepare Like a Magpie
Winter break is upon us. However, the savvy teacher doesn’t want to let everything slide from the end of one term to the beginning of the next. It would be lovely if everything could just be frozen in time: grade book, syllabus, readings, [read more...]
Higher Ed
Using Student-Teacher Conferences to Create Opportunities for Learning
By Louisa Danielson
I was fortunate to have a wonderful teaching mentor who had some excellent ideas about teaching and the methodology behind getting students to write. It wasn’t so much a spoken theory he had, but a method [read more...]
One Classroom, Many Abilities
2018-10-29Create learning opportunities for every type of student by using variable assignments.
If you have taught even a short time, you know that every class will start the beginning of the term with a variety of writing skills. There are students who could graduate from college without needing a writing [read more...]