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I’m continuing to blog about education tools as part of #Teachermom’s Building Back To School blog series for August. There are two classroom tools I want to discuss today which made teaching my ELLs much easier. (This post contains affiliate links. That means that I make a small commission if
A comment by a reader last week gave me the idea for today’s blog post, which is about starting a homework program for students. Today I’ll write about laying the groundwork for such a program and in future posts, I’ll write about how to implement it and make it a
For the next few weeks, I’ll be linking up with #TeacherMom and her Building Back to School series of helpful tools for classroom teachers. Read the first post by #TeacherMom HERE Today, I’m going to write about four essential tools that I used every year when I was teaching ESL
I’m one year old! Well, my TpT store is, anyway. (Does that make me 33.8 Celsius?) This week marks the one-year anniversary of the opening of my store and that got me thinking about how birthdays are celebrated in other cultures and what the impact can be on schools. When
Last night, a segment on the PBS NewsHour was about the difficulties recent teacher graduates face in finding jobs and in the working conditions they frequently encounter in schools: I was struck by a comment towards the end by John Merrow, the interviewer. He said that instead of going “back
I was thinking about the weather yesterday. It was hot but not humid and I didn’t turn the air conditioner on. It’s also been thundering a lot late at night, with frequent flashes of lightning. Here in Arizona, it’s the monsoon season. But a colleague from back East said she
It’s always exciting to win a prize in a raffle but to be honest, I was a little disappointed when I learned that what I’d won at the recent TeachersPayTeachers Blogger Meet Up was a product for kindergartners, something called SitSpots. Kindergarten was the grade I found most challenging and
I’ve attended lots of conferences and they all are organized in a similar fashion: a keynote address to all participants, breakout sessions devoted to specific aspects of the conference theme or focus, networking opportunities, raffles of some sort and, depending on the size of the conference, exhibits by publishers and
I took a break last Thursday and wrote a post about the Fourth of July and Poldark, my new favorite TV show, but I have a few more books to recommend so this week I’m resuming the series. (This post contains affiliate links. That means that I make a small
Playing versus learning: Is that a dichotomy? A lot of people seem to think it is, as evidenced by the movement–which in itself is a paradox, since they’re not actually getting up and moving around but rather sitting quietly in chairs at desks–to get children in kindergarten reading and writing
What do the Fourth of July and Poldark have in common? And what does Poldark have to do with teaching English Language Learners? Well, I can think of a couple answers to both questions. So in this post, I will take a break from writing book recommendations and discuss something
This was my first year not being in a classroom but had I been teaching, last Friday would have been my final day of the school year, due to making up all the snow days in the winter. After the excitement and chaos of the last week of school, it
