Lighting the Path to Knowledge
If you’ve never used read aloud picture books with your middle schoolers, you should consider it. Not only do picture books get a point across, but they’re fun, images are beautiful and they don’t take much time.. You can easily come up with ideas to reinforce what you’ve read. This month, I’m joining my “We Teach So Hard” BFF…
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Someone posted on Facebook that August is like Sunday for teachers! We’re elated when the weekend comes around, and love Saturday, it’s one of our fun days, but then the dreaded Sunday comes, you have to correct papers, do lesson plans, and go to bed at a reasonable hour, you know the routine. How depressing is that?!!! Then there’s…
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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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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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Kya remembered Ma always encouraging her to explore the marsh: “Go as far as you can—way out yonder where the crawdads sing.” I must confess that I don’t read as much as I probably should and when my 3 teaching friends from the We Teach So Hard podcast suggested that we each read a book, and come up with questions,…
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We’re so eager for summer, we sometimes forget about all the things we have to do for the last few weeks of school, one of which is celebrating a successful year with our students. For those of you who didn’t have a great year, it’s time for you to rejoice, you never have to see this group of kids…
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