Begin your next essay with some collaborative essay brainstorming strategies that will get your students engaged, motivated, and ready to write. Brainstorming is an important
“Every child deserves a champion – an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they
Now that it is research paper season, it is time to decide what topic to assign to your middle or high school students. I firmly believe in choosing a broad umbrella topic and allowing your students to each select their specific topic. Providing students with the opportunity to select what they research enhances student buy-in and interest. Here is a quick list of possible research paper topics for high school and middle school.
There are three things every teacher should do before taking their students to the computer lab to research information for their research papers: teach the difference between reliable and unreliable sources, check to make sure every student has a self-generated research question, and help prepare students with key phrases and words to search. Whenever I begin teaching the research paper, I always share with my students the story of how I wrote my Master’s thesis paper. It was a 50 page paper with 50 different sources.
April is National Poetry Month. Let’s celebrate poetry in our classrooms with some of these great poetry activities and lessons that are perfect for engaging
One way to help students get to know their new class is by assigning growth mindset writing prompts. A big component of fostering a growth
This is the second blog post in a series of posts about creating and establish a growth mindset in the classroom. Read the first post about creating a growth mindset here. In this post, you’ll read about three critical features for creating a growth mindset in the classroom.
Many schools across the nation are adopting a growth mindset approach to education. Schools and classrooms that embrace a growth mindset see the value in
After reading a novel or chapter, I used to assess my students’ understanding with a quick, multiple-choice test. It was an easy way to quickly