Sourcing and Citation: A Practiced Technique
Finding and using sources; how did you learn the process? Perhaps it was something you honed through middle school and high school, gathering information from encyclopedias and web sites and laboriously incorporating them into a paper or science project. [read more...]
Purposeful Group Work in the Classroom
2019-01-30Purposeful Group Work in the Classroom
One of the major trends in the teaching of writing is to have “group work.” In essence, this means that students work in small groups to accomplish a goal. One classroom is divided into multiple groups and then, the activity takes care of itself. Or does [read more...]
Working Over Winter Break: How to Prepare Like a Magpie
Winter break is upon us. However, the savvy teacher doesn’t want to let everything slide from the end of one term to the beginning of the next. It would be lovely if everything could just be frozen in time: grade book, syllabus, readings, [read more...]