Words about Education and Literacy
Brooke Holland
My students spend about a month writing an original piece of creative nonfiction. (You can read more about the assignment at my post “Historical Fiction (research paper in disguise)”). The final draft is 1200-2000 words of polished, edited prose they’re…
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Dedicated teachers work tirelessly to prepare, propel, motivate, and mentor their students. Mrs. Miller is one of those teachers. “Math, migration, hibernation, facts, and spelling,” Brynlee said when I asked her what she’d learned from her kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Miller….
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I’m often looking for short stories to read to my students or to use as samples of good writing, but they’re hard to find, which is why I was pleasantly surprised when this collection landed in my hands: All These…
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Here’s a laugh for today. One of my students gave me a card with this quote on it . . . seems quite true . . . especially as the end of the school year peeks around the corner! “Teaching…
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Who is the artist in your life? How can you enable that artist? I ask these questions to my students at the beginning of this lesson. Next, I do a quick three-question poll (agree/disagree): People are at peace with being…
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Dedicated teachers work tirelessly to prepare, propel, motivate, and mentor their students. Mr. Miller is one of those teachers. “He’s brilliant. He’s so good at math and science,” says Sarah, a current 10th-grade student who was in Mr. Miller’s 9th-grade…
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There are five weeks left in the school year. Of course I don’t’ count finals week—that’s work for the students, not for me, and I don’t count the week I’m gone with the Seniors on Class Trip—that’s vacation. So five…
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Dedicated teachers work tirelessly to prepare, propel, motivate, and mentor their students. Mr. Stafford is one of those teachers. “He’s really nice, and he actually cares for us. He was always passionate about the subject. You know, some teachers aren’t…
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Do you ever have a day between units that you need a plan for? Or a day when one section of a class is ahead and needs a one-day lesson to lull them while the other sections catch up? This…
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Are you tired of assigning and grading formal research papers? I know I am. Are you wondering if there’s a fresh way to teach the researching skills your students need to know? I was too. Let me introduce to you…
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