One of the tough things about being a “teacher” these days is giving up the “sage on the stage” role. It’s so easy to be the expert when students are struggling. Our first instinct is to just tell students…
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I am a procrastinator–to say the least–so as school was quickly approaching, I began to scramble to put together our first few days. I combed Pinterest, retweeted ideas, organized my Pocket with a BTS category. But still nothing stuck…
So Kristy did a guest blog post for Cult of Pedagogy about delaying the grade. In it she expresses her frustration with students’ “intense focus on the all-important grade.” What bothers her the most is that her feedback goes…
This summer I was lucky enough to be chosen for the launch team for Anne Bogel’s book, Reading People. I’ll be honest, when I filled out the interest form, I neither knew what the book was about nor what…
I know that parents oftentimes don’t expect a lot of communication from their child’s high school teacher. I am probably an exception. I have found that periodic contact cuts down on the nit picky notes and complaints when parents…
Last year, after reading an article from Cult of Pedagogy, I decided to focus on Five Things for my school year. This post has been shared a lot this summer (which I find kind of funny since it’s from…
After writing an article for Cult of Pedagogy about delaying the grade students receive to help them focus on feedback, I saw a lot of questions and comments about why I don’t giving feedback while the kids are writing.…