Are your students moaning and groaning over taking another test or writing another essay? While these are tried and true methods for assessing many skills, I have been on a mission to find more innovative, unique ways of assessing student growth and learning.
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One of the best ways to teach students how to integrate literary and rhetorical devices into their writing is to imitate the style of great writers. Here are 20 Great Literary Quotes to use as Mentor Sentences in Secondary ELA...
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Contrasting literary movements as a pedagogical approach to teaching literature is a debatable method, but I have found that juxtaposing literary movements...
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This winter season, I found myself missing the snow for the first time in my life because we made a big move from a cold climate where we have lived for the past six years to a warm climate where there is no snow. I never fully realized...
Online discussions can be helpful as discussion strategy for virtual learning or in a co-seated classroom environment. But, how can we facilitate these discussions using technology and going online?
Google Slides makes it easy to create content for our students to use online. It’s not only a platform for creating presentations, but teachers can even use it to create online choice boards.
Being able to use Google Classroom is an invaluable tool for teachers today— especially in our ever-increasing technological world. Not to mention that this technology can make teaching more effective and efficient for both teacher and student— and it’s also great for distance/ online learning.