AP courses are now offered in more than 30 subjects. Here's how to know if taking AP courses and tests are right for your high school student.
This is a step-by-step guide to get a 5 on AP Spanish Language and Culture. I include all the tips and resources I used to prepare for each section of the exam.
If you want to know how to annotate a book for AP English Literature and Composition, follow these 5 steps to annotate effectively and prepare for the AP exam.
We’re always on the hunt for free and authentic materials. Podcasts are the best of both worlds! Plus, they help your students develop their...
In this post, I tell you how I taught a successful high school Spanish combination class and offer tips on teaching a split-level classroom.
Book Talk For English Teachers and Other Lovers of Reading
When I first started teaching AP in the fall, I felt like I was starting over from scratch…not sure which, if any, of my go to strategies could cross over into the scary and academic world of…
Every day is planned in 5 classes with this curriculum bundle. Including an intro to art curriculum, drawing, painting, advanced, AP© Art curriculum.
How to Infuse Etymology into Latin Class Because etymology is my favorite aspect of Latin instruction (or maybe tied with Ablative functions), I embed as much etymology as humanly possibl
This list of 20 Short Short Stories for AP Lit accompanies ideas for how to use Flash Fiction in AP Literature and High School English...
Every year in my first year classes (12 year olds) I touch on the principles of perspective, at least in its one point form. We do a little art history, take a look at Masaccio and Mantegna. We mak…
This year I will be teaching The Phantom Tollbooth to my Pre-AP classes, and I could not be more excited! I didn't teach it last year because, well, last year was crazy. I happened to read the book during our MIRP time and LOVED it! I don't know in which quarter this will happen, but I'm gathering/creating resources already because I'm THAT excited. One of the characters is not just two faced, he is twelve faced! Therefore, he is known as the Dodecahedron. I stumbled onto the following concept on Pinterest and made my own activity for Mr. Dodecahedron. Can you say cross curricular? I can see a discussion of the other geometrical affixes happening at some point. Anyway, here is what I came up with! (Link to template here) My example. The kids will spend more time on theirs than I did on mine :) Work is so much fun when you can do it at home with coffee and Facebook! Eleven more days until school starts. Woohoo!
This summer, after attending a reading workshop, I've made it my goal to amp up and improve my guided reading and shared reading instruction. With this in
Using in class discussion is a perfect way to foster critical thinking in high school English classes. Whether it is the Socratic Method...
If you want to know how to annotate a book for AP English Literature and Composition, follow these 5 steps to annotate effectively and prepare for the AP exam.
Engaging, fun ways to teach your students summarizing skills. Strengthen their reading skills and provide practice with this challenging concept.
We made Styrofoam printing plates of our faces by tracing photographs of ourselves in profile and/or “three quarter” view. We printed double images of our faces in black and/or white ink on a varie…
Short short stories are the perfect medium for high school English. Here are 9 reasons you should use them.
10 inexpensive rewards to use in your middle school class.
Qui dit nouvelle affectation, dit aussi nouveaux affichages. Dans ma future classe, je n'aurais pas beaucoup de place pour mes affichages. J'ai donc refait mon alphabet mural avec une toute nouvelle disposition. Contrairement à l'ancien (qui tenait sur un A3), celui-ci a la taille d'un A4.Toujours mon lignage avec différentes couleurs pour aider au repérage et une police bien choisie qui respecte la manière dont j'enseigne le tracé des lettres. Si tu télécharges une ressource, n'oublie pas de cl
Let's be honest - there is only so much we can learn in our undergraduate courses, student teaching experiences, and alternative certification programs. At the end of the day, so much that I've learned about being a teacher, and teaching biology specifically, has been through trial and error. If we want to get fancy, we can call it "action research" in my own classroom, like my graduate professors referred to it.
Literature circles are a great way for students to read books of their choice at their level. See how I used them in my high school Spanish immersion class.
Read about eleven different ways to meaningfully incorporate art in ELA class. Keep the focus on students' learning, not their artistic abilities.
A blog exploring what it means to be a good math teacher.
In classes of 7th Grade (12 year-old) we have painted a forest of trees without preliminary drawing, using directly the brushes and the acrylics paints on the white paper. To make the effect of t…
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Songwriting problems such as: song being too long, no focus, weak chorus, no hook, no bridge, poor structure can be bad for you.
This UbD unit is intended for use in AP Studio Art classes and guides students through the process of developing ideas for their Sustained Investigations. Beginning the 2019-2020 school-year, all AP Studio Art courses will revolve entirely around the Sustained Investigation. This is a year-long, extended exploration of a student-generated topic of inquiry. By the end of the year, students must submit 15 images of work with coherent focus and demonstrate: practice, experimentation, and revision. In this unit, students will learn what series are and why artists create works in series. Students will develop and refine ideas for their own series, create and present proposals for their own inquiry topics, and share feedback with one another. This unit can be adapted to introduce a long-range series of artworks in non-AP upper-level art courses.
