Lighting the Path to Knowledge
Welcome to We Teach So Hard’s inaugural themed book talk episode! Every 2nd week of the month, we’ll be exploring books around a central theme. This month’s theme is BELONGING. It seems like the perfect back-to-school focus. In each episode, we’ll introduce 4 books and share lesson ideas for using them in your classroom. In this episode, we explore the…
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Picture yourself as a child, it’s the beginning of the school year and you’re attending a new school in a different country. If this isn’t difficult enough, you don’t even speak the same language. Talk about feeling alone and isolated! As teachers, we’ve all had kids in our classes who appear to be loners, they don’t have friends, they…
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Accountable talk. On-task talk. Turn and talk. No matter what you call it, we can all agree that it’s really important that our students learn how to engage in discourse. They need to be able to share their thinking, provide evidence, build on each other’s responses, and disagree with their peers without losing their minds. The beginning of the school…
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We’ve all been there, and it’s usually on the day before school. We’re trapped in a PD when we have 1,001 other more pressing things to do. Research says, however, that the best teacher professional development is teacher-driven and teacher-centered. We’re no different than our students when it comes to learning, so why can’t we have choice, collaboration and fun?…
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Summer vacation is waning, days are numbered, soon your time will no longer be yours and you’ve got the PD blues thinking about those long drawn out workshops you’ll be sitting through when you’d much rather be setting up your room and planning for the new year. Why not plan an unconference with a few of your teaching buds….
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It’s our last summer read and we’re crying in our cocktails, but this one is thought-provoking, we promise! Goodbye For Now by Laurie Frankel is a modern science fiction novel that left us thinking about many “what-ifs.” If you had the opportunity to talk with a loved one who has passed, with the help of technology, would you do…
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