"I’m done assigning large take-home papers. The tech is too advanced, too easy to use and too aggressively marketed." ...
Teachers can guide students to practice a behavior that provides encouragement and promotes feelings of personal success.
Boost engagement, build classroom community, and help students see themselves as storytellers through story-acting.
Sometimes it truly takes a village! When my classroom door stop broke and the class 'door holders' were getting tired, my ...
Learning can happen anywhere — in a classroom, in a park, on a field trip or at a museum. But, the reality is that space matters. I had a classroom last year, and while it was shared with my math ...
Vulnerability is hard for anyone. For some, it feels wrong to acknowledge weaknesses when you hold the power in a classroom.
Earlier this year, I designed a “book tasting” for my middle school class that changed my career in a matter of days. Inspired by a National Council of Teachers of English initiative, I generated a ...
As my students return to class this week, the newest equipment needed for school lockdowns will be there to greet them. It was delivered to my 11th-grade Advanced Placement Language and Composition ...
"As a Hindu, I respect the Ten Commandments," Arjun Sharda writes. "But faith loses its power when it’s forced. True belief ...
I teach at a university in Southern California, where almost half my students are Latino. We are what is known as an HSI, a Hispanic-Serving Institution. It’s a designation for colleges and ...