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Bell to Bell-Classroom Management in an ELA classroom

Teaching middle school students with hormones raging and preoccupied minds on today’s social media, a teacher HAS to keep them motivated and at attention. Teaching bell to bell is one of your best tools with no added skill to be involved other than planning well. You ask, How do I do that? How do YOUContinue reading “Bell to Bell-Classroom Management in an ELA classroom”

Quoted advice we all should take once in a while from Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense: for always the inmost becomes the outmost,–and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgement.” Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson Be careful what you think inside for it becomes so when comes out on the outside.Continue reading “Quoted advice we all should take once in a while from Ralph Waldo Emerson.”

Teaching all students to a high level. Teach to the high.

This is a phrase that doesn’t get enough press and often is not taught as a training topic like it should be. When we are in elementary settings we teach whole group and then teach on level to each small group. When students move to a middle school level, depending on the school system forContinue reading “Teaching all students to a high level. Teach to the high.”

O. Henry Short Stories Unit-Monday Literature Spotlight

Just to kick off this literary spotlight let’s start with and suggestion NOTE. NOTE: If you start the unit in the last weeks before the December holiday season with “Gift of the Magi” it gives a festive text that will also lead into a well-themed O. Henry Surprise Ending Unit. To start, show several short-animatedContinue reading “O. Henry Short Stories Unit-Monday Literature Spotlight”

Vary your reading techniques. Close Reading tip.

As years of teaching go by in a career you learn various techniques for reading WITH your students. Note: WITH your students. That is pointed out simply because too many teachers have succumbed to just hitting play on a recorded book and leave all their other learned close reading techniques behind. Do not fall toContinue reading “Vary your reading techniques. Close Reading tip.”