One of the first things teachers learn in their pre-service teaching classes is the importance of establishing effective classroom routines and procedures for
Whether your students are lethargic or super-charged, adding movement to your lesson plans will help to solve both issues. Not only is it healthy to move throughout the day, but it can also help students focus and become more engaged with the content they are trying to master. Due to the nature of English classes, ELA ... Read More about 10 Ways to Add Movement in the ELA Classroom
Hello everyone out there in blog-land! It’s been a super crazy busy start to this school year so I’ve been a bit MIA on the blog (but you can find me on Instagram more often)! I have a student teacher this year, I am Junior Class Advisor (and this week is Homecoming week), and I […]
Shifting how we were teaching writing to prioritize our focus on the paragraph rather than the essay was a gradual one for us, largely because we felt guilty not always assigning full essays, but the more we saw the benefits and the more we saw how we could apply our work with the paragraph to our work with essay structures, the more willing we were to shift our focus.
Use these inclusion strategies to help you navigate teaching in the ELA classroom.
Download this free, no prep yet meaningful lesson that's perfect for the secondary ELA classroom! Help students to analyze their author's writing and inspire them to strengthen their own!
As teachers begin planning for back to school, I see an abundance of creative classrooms filling my Instagram and Pinterest feeds. I love seeing how other
I just love it when pop culture screams classroom use, don't you? Today I'm sharing two super easy ways to bring the vibes to your middle and high school ELA classes. Click through to find inspiration to motivate your ELA students! | classroom vibes | popular classroom ideas for ELA teachers | #englishteacher #teacherfun #teacherideas
Betsy Potash of Spark Creativity and I talk about how to make teaching more enjoyable for introverted teachers.
I was recently looking back at my goals for the 2015-2016 school year, and one was to embrace some elementary teaching methods in my second...
Engage your students this Valentine’s Day with an Interactive Bulletin Board. Comment KINDNESS 👇, and I will send you my Interactive Bulletin Board FREEBIE! #teachersofinstagram #teacher #elementaryteacher #middleschoolteacher #highschoolteacher #bulletinboard
These ELA podcast pairings will help you design engaging text sets for you middle school and high school English classroom!
I am so excited to be sharing a conversation with Mike Rohde, the creator of Sketchnotes, on the blog today. You will also find a few examples of sketchnotes in education that Mike was kind enough to share with me.
In this informative post, I'm sharing some things we can do to help learn about, celebrate and share Indigenous voices in our classrooms. You will find tips and reading selections to honor these voices with your secondary ELA students.
Are you looking for fun background ideas for your virtual Zoom meetings or classes? I've gathered a variety of creative and fun background ideas to use for virtual meetings for secondary ELA teachers.
Build ELA skills as you build relationships with your students when you try out any of these five creative back-to-school projects.
Looking for creative multimedia mentor texts for your ELA students? Check out these options, from picture books to podcasts, videos to poetry.
Looking for a flexible plan to incorporate blended learning into your secondary ELA classroom? This quick post outlines several possible plans that may work for your different situations. Click through to find support in developing the blended learning plan that will best serve your students.
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Jane Wisdom, a creative teacher from Ilinois bringing a wealth of experience to our show. She's going to walk us through her students' recent success with a research project.
