I was reading the article Seven Reasons to “Go to the Tape” in ASCD and I decided to blog about how I positively changed my concern about being in front of the camera and what it did to improve my classroom practice. The article discusses that coaches are using state of the art video equipment […]
“What do you do with a B.A. in English/What is my life going to be?/Four years of college and plenty of knowledge/Have earned me this useless degree.” These wry lyrics from the Broadway musical, Avenue Q, penned by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx notwithstanding, I am proud to have earned a Bachelor’s degree in English. […]
I’ve long been a proponent of using games and simulations to engage students in learning (1, 2). Let’s face it, we all like to play games, and we all want our students to be successful learners. Does it matter if they have fun while they are learning? I don’t think so, and there is mounting […]
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We use terms like tracking and on track interchangeably, referring to monitoring student’s progress toward high school graduation and college enrollment…
There is much talk about preparing students for college and careers by the time they graduate from high school. How much of that talk involves those who are closest to the issue—the students, themselves? I decided to call upon some real experts for this blog: my children. Zach is 19 and Adrian is 18. He […]
As a social studies teacher for 15 years I reflect back to many frustrating hours spent grading and correcting student work that I felt was sub par compared to my standards. Heading into each new unit with high hopes of a different outcome where my students might just knock this assignment out of the park I would […]
