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…
Teacher Tip Tuesday—1 November 2010
Work it Out When I was teaching high school back in the Aughts, this is what near-daily conversations with my husband used to sound like: him: you need to do something for the stress. me: like quit? him: no, like work out. me (stressed): and when do you think I should do that? While I…
Teacher Tip Tuesday — 9 Sept 2010
Discipline is one of the most challenging aspects of teaching. If you are teaching older students, however, you have an option that puts the responsibility right back on the kids. You’ll need to clear this technique with your principal or dean, but it worked for me both in SoCal and in NYC.