Helping Students Make New Year’s Resolutions: A Step-by-Step Plan 1Jan2016 by Jennifer Gonzalez This week, since the topic of new year’s resolutions is likely to come up anyway, why not make a lesson out of it? Here’s a step-by-step plan to help your students make resolutions that could significantly impact their quality of life.
Back to Basics: A Review of Mike Schmoker’s “Focus” 5Nov2015 by Kristy Louden Simple is NOT a trending concept in education. But I think there is a place for simplicity and tradition in education, and Mike Schmoker agrees.
The Big List of Class Discussion Strategies 15Oct2015 by Jennifer Gonzalez Here they are: 17 formats for structuring a class discussion to make it more engaging, more organized, more equitable, and more academically challenging.
What’s so great about Google Drive? And why should my students be using it? 25Sep2015 by Jennifer Gonzalez Google Drive is much more than an online file cabinet. It’s loaded with free tools students can use for serious academic work. Let’s look at what it can do.
5 Common Teaching Practices I’m Kicking to the Curb 3Sep2015 by Jennifer Gonzalez Are any of these ineffective teaching methods still part of your practice? Time to reconsider.
Know Your Terms: Memory Palace 12Aug2015 by Jennifer Gonzalez Mnemonics help us remember things: Roy G. Biv, Every Good Boy Does Fine. But there’s one you may not have heard of, and it might be the coolest one of all.
4 Things You Don’t Know About the Jigsaw Method 15Apr2015 by Jennifer Gonzalez This cooperative learning strategy has been around for decades, but how well do you really know it?
3 Tips to Make Any Lesson More Culturally Responsive 1Apr2015 by Zaretta Hammond Google “culturally responsive teaching” and you can find a dozen videos of well-meaning teachers leading some call-and-response chant about exponents or rapping about the Boston Tea Party while students sit back and giggle.
7 Easy Ways to Support Student Writing in Any Content Area 6Mar2015 by Jennifer Gonzalez It’s not all that complicated, and it doesn’t have to be time-consuming, either. You don’t need an English degree to get really good at helping students build writing proficiency in your content area.
