January 29, 2024 1 Using Conferences to Improve Students’ Self-Assessment Skills I’m teaching an 11th grade writing class and my students are finishing up a unit on memoirs. I’m [...]
September 25, 2022 0 Relevance in Project-Based Learning – Connecting History to Real World Issues Translation: We decided to create a movement Pia, our 7th grade Spanish Language Arts and Dominican History [...]
July 30, 2022 0 Teaching Independence With Project-Based Learning Our 6th grade Language Arts (LA) teacher, Christina Perez, had always known that moving to 7th grade — [...]
January 28, 2016 2 Centers in Secondary School? Yes! Elementary teachers use all kinds of creative teaching techniques to keep their students [...]
January 14, 2016 2 5 Habits for Excellence in Teaching Normally, I spend most of my time observing secondary-level Language Arts teachers, and each teacher is [...]
January 21, 2015 0 Marine Conservation and Project-Based Learning Guest bloggers Dennis Negron (the head of TCFL’s Science Department) and Lizzie Nyitray [...]
November 18, 2014 3 Experimenting with the Flipped Classroom Flipped classroom ideas are everywhere on the internet lately and they make so much sense. [...]
November 7, 2014 0 Character Dress Up Day and the Culture of Reading Teachers greeting students Every year, near the end of October, we harness the creative fun of Halloween [...]
October 14, 2014 12 How We Teach Reading Several parents have asked me to write about the philosophy we use at TCFL to teach reading. Parents can see [...]
September 14, 2014 2 Improving Class Discussions Class discussions are the heart and soul of good teaching. When students discuss ideas, they learn from each [...]