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Tuesday Tips: Read the Sparknotes

Yes, I just said that. I know, I know. Cliffnotes, Sparknotes, Book Rags, etc. are supposed to be the bane of an English teacher’s existence. At least they were when I was in high school. Now that...

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Tuesday Tips: Be Mindful

  Right at this moment I am sitting in our school’s library. It’s quiet. I can see out the sunny window to a clear Texas 70 degrees. If you’ve ever been to Texas, you know how much we appreciate...

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Tuesday Tips: Try New Things

  There’s no perfect time to try new things in the classroom, but my favorite time is right now. I always think that I’ll revamp all kinds of lessons, policies, practices, texts, etc. at the beginning...

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Feedback for Large Classes: New Ideas for the High School Writing Teacher

Photo Credit When I first interviewed for my job 14 years ago, the interviewing principal told me something like,  “Our classes are pretty big right now, but that should get better.” Or not. I did...

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Tuesday Tips: Why Discussion > Reading Quizzes

Perhaps there is a literature teacher out there who has only students who read all the assigned material prior to class. Oh wait, we live in the real world. With actual human beings. As someone who...

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Tuesday Tips: Ditch the Rows of Desks

As I’ve probably stated way too many times now, my classes are pretty large. To manage large class sizes and maintain some semblance of sanity, I must be deliberate about all of my practices: grading,...

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Tuesday Tips: Nametags for Classroom Discussion

One important classroom discussion skill is learning to call classmates by name. Although many of my students have been in classes together for several years, they don’t necessarily know all of their...

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Best Questions for Writing Conferences

One of my favorite parts of my job is meeting with students to help them with their writing.  Writing, in many ways, is a highly individualized skill that depends on each person’s life experiences,...

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9 Tips to Help You Stay in Your Teaching Career

“Heiwa elementary school 18” by ajari from Japan – Heiwa elementary school %u5E73%u548C%u5C0F%u5B66%u6821 _18. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. The statistics for teachers are glum:...

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Making Time to Read: All the Things I Don’t Do

The question I probably get asked most often, right after, “Wow–12th grade. How do you do that?” and “How can you grade all those papers?” is “How can you read so much?”  I’ve thought about this quite...

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