What the Earth signifies to me… We've covered that already. The Earth is suffering from pollution, and we must protect it! Been there, done that! Let's design Earth Day activities that offer a fresh perspective for our students!
We’ve heard of Project-Based Learning (PBLs), which allows students to mostly have independent leadership through a task or project and creative freedom to add their personal touches. Student-led classes have a very similar approach in that it’s led mostly by the student leaders elected and they...
Even if it's your life's passion, teaching can be draining.
Here’s my one caveat, if you’re bothered by a lot and expect quiet student perfection, this might not be the classroom management plan for you. But if you want to share a mutually-owned space with students who crave independence, yet want help through tough tasks, this might help you start your...
This will be my 12th year teaching high school ELA, and you could say I’ve learned a few things that I wished I knew going into year one. One thing is clear about 12 years: there are going to be fun and easy years and there are going to be hard and challenging years. And I honestly can’t say why...
During Pride Month, everyone expects coming out stories or rainbow flags to take over their social media profile pics–and honestly, I love those parts of June. But as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, we love to hear stories of identity, whether or not it connects to sexuality or gender. Being...
The wonderful thing about Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is it isn’t content-specific; it can span all curriculum and grade levels. Knowing the five areas of CASEL’s Classroom SEL Framework helps decide where your strengths and weaknesses are as a teacher. Additionally, you can share these...
The best part of being an ELA teacher is getting to expose students to a diverse set of stories. To appreciate the new cultures and heritages more sincerely in a book, students have to start the book feeling like they understand or can relate to something with the characters with whom they spend...
Dynamic and flat characterization has been in language arts and English curricula forever, it seems. How do we up the rigor as students advance in secondary classrooms? I find a helpful graphic organizer gives students a perspective on which character is dynamic and which just isn’t. During Women’s...
Analyzing complex characters in a novel or a short story requires students to look at many things such as how they’re described physically, but also their motivations for their actions and events that happen, their reaction to external factors, and the relationships they have.
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