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...]
Teaching
Using Student-Teacher Conferences to Create Opportunities for Learning
By Louisa Danielson
I was fortunate to have a wonderful teaching mentor who had some excellent ideas about teaching and the methodology behind getting students to write. It wasn’t so much a spoken theory he had, but a method [read more...]
What Can I Write About?
2018-08-07How to find writing topics that are useful and relevant but not overdone.
It comes up every semester: about which topics will your students write? Whether they are working on argumentative writing, research skills, or general fluency with the written word, they will need to have something specific [read more...]