Quotes, Notes, and Genius! Somewhere along the line in my teaching career (lo these near twenty years) I picked up a trick called “Quotes, Notes, and Thoughts.” Sometimes it’s called “Quotes, Notes, and Queries” or “Quotes, Notes, and Comments,” but it’s always the same idea: Students divide their paper into three columns—use their spiral notebooks…
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Teacher Tip Tuesday—9 November 2010
The Power of the Notebook You’ve probably noticed by now that I loathe busy work. I hated it as a kid and I hated it as a teacher. It drove me nuts to see colleagues assigning busy work then complain about how much they had to grade. Now, formative work—the work you need to look…