Teaching Techniques

February 25, 2017 6

Let’s face it — for most students, literary analysis is just plain hard. And teaching it is even [...]

January 21, 2017 0

Teaching students the meta-cognitive skill of self-assessment empowers them and puts them in charge of their [...]

January 14, 2017 9

In the last few years, complaints about the amount of homework assigned in our secondary school have been [...]

January 9, 2017 2

Testing: we all know assessment is important, but oh, the anxiety it causes! In the best of all possible [...]

December 5, 2016 2

Recently, in a Twitter chat, I was introduced to hyperdocs: cool, interactive Google documents or slides [...]

October 14, 2016 13

I belong to an inspiring and motivating group of educators called #sunchatbloggers. The other day a member of [...]

Teachers seem to love assigning group projects, while all too often, both students and parents dread them. [...]

September 6, 2016 6

Our elementary/secondary shared, individualized PD has begun! I have to admit, I was hesitant to start on [...]

August 22, 2016 11

At our school, we believe that a strong school philosophy is the basis for everything. So, every year in [...]

May 26, 2016 4

A couple of months ago, we began trying out protocols for professional development with our teachers and [...]

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