Sucked up and moved on.

Man, yesterday was awful. Awful day with the students, awful day of teaching, awful day afteward with other people. But every day is a crapshoot, and you’ve gotta take ‘em as they come, I suppose.
I got some pretty good advice from an anonymous commenter named Sean, who wrote:
That is a tough spot to [...]

The Imaginary Classroom: Part Two

My responses to all the comments and questions on the original post The Imaginary Classroom got a litle long, and ended up as this post. My initial post was a little too vague, and needed some more specific examples of what I’d like to see in this imaginary classroom.
I think the overall scope of [...]

This teacher gets an “F”

Just not willing to let that last post stand on its own, but I’m also not going to talk about how that all came about. Instead, this is about running a workshop within the classroom.
I’ve found this model to work wonders — each of my students are working at their own level(s), and each [...]

More classroom 2.0

About six months ago I wrote this post about the bourgeoning field of web-applications I thought could be used in the classroom (or outside the classroom).
These days there are even more web-based applications available, and many are even designed with school in mind! I was wandering around the web looking at some of the [...]

More Teacher Freebies!

Found a few things that might be helpful in a science classroom. The first is a classroom activity (actually more a hallway activity) where you can use one entire roll of toilet paper to show the hstory of the Earth — beginning 5 billion years ago — to the present. Cheap, [...]

More Web applications

Check out this list from Sacred Cow Dung: a list of web-based applications that may or may not enhance your time spent online.
I can see a number of these applications being useful for teachers. The problem is finding a way to get whichever site(s) you find useful past a school-web-filter.
Also, for teachers and students: [...]

New Link Monday (again)

Make sure you visit Doug over at Borderland. Also, be sure to read his newest post, wherein Doug describes Altered Books and the use of writing (or finding poetry) in the classroom.
The idea of altering books to create something new is a great idea, and Doug utilzes a quote from Art Young to describe [...]

Teaching Posters #2

Just because I have the time….here is another set of posters to add to the previous set of images.
This time, the images are dedicated to one of my pet peeves: ALOT

click the images for larger versions.
And again, let me know if there’s anything you’d like to see. I’ll give it my best shot.

Teaching Posters

Every time I go to the teaching store, I see the same sets of posters. They have pictures of cute bears and cute turtles and cute foxes wearing jeans and jackets and hats, and these anthropomorphized animals are teaching grammar.
I even have a few of these up in my classroom.
I don’t think, though, that [...]

MLA hyperlink

After a number of tries in teaching MLA standards — especially the teaching of in-text citation — I’ve had an idea.
Choose any news story from CNN.
Look through that story. See the links in the middle of the story? Why are they in the middle of the story?
They’re there in order to lead the [...]