October 10, 2021 0 Empowering Students Through Self-Assessment of the Writing Process Sandy is busily writing the first draft of her personal narrative in 7th grade language arts. Ten minutes [...]
October 2, 2020 0 7 Ways to Increase Student Participation in the Virtual Classroom One of the difficulties teachers face when working with students virtually, is that many of them don’t [...]
August 29, 2020 1 Making Virtual Class Discussions Engaging Using the TQE Method, Breakout Rooms, and Self-Assessment Example of one group’s work in our virtual TQE discussion. A couple of years ago, I came across [...]
May 26, 2020 3 Lessons from Virtual Learning: Teaching Self-Advocacy Graphic adapted from: rule-the-school.com At TCFL, we teach certain self-advocacy skills to our students. [...]
May 23, 2020 2 Lessons from Virtual Learning: How to Improve Assessment I’m not very proud of what I’m going to write, since I can’t believe it took me so long to [...]
April 16, 2020 18 Virtual Learning – Students Tell Us What Works Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we made the move all of our classes online in mid-March — and we’ve [...]
January 25, 2020 0 Differentiated Grammar Lessons I have a confession to make: I’m a language arts teacher who has always dreaded teaching grammar. Part [...]
January 18, 2020 4 How to Integrate Art and History into a Student-Led BreakOut Project Brainstorming the BreakOut project Our 10th grade Dominican history teachers, Lorena and Maguie, [...]
January 12, 2020 0 Differentiation in Math Class I walk into Ailyn’s math class, where I find a hum of activity. On one side, I see three students [...]
May 12, 2019 4 5 Things Our Student-Led Environmental Conference Taught Us About Education Last week, our secondary students and teachers took a break from classes to take part in L.E.A.F. (Local [...]