One misconception I have to tackle every year is the average student’s belief that she “has nothing to write.” Students think that because their lives are “normal” or “middle / lower / upper class” or “happy / sad” that they…
Students as Contemplatives
7 Ways to Make Your Classroom More Engaging
Learning is state dependent. This means that learning is most determined by the emotional state of the learner. I most recently heard this while watching a promotional video by Jim Kwik, the speed-reading and memory guru and head of Kwik…
Music in the Classroom
Last week, I used music twice in my high school English class. The first time was for a lesson on parallelism. After explaining the concept and having students look at historical examples, I played snippets of songs for them. They had…
The Power of Poetry
Yesterday, to commemorate 9/11, the assistant principal at our school read the poem “One” by Cheryl Sawyer (you can find it here). My students, who were only two years old at the occurrence of 9/11, stood absolutely motionless. I later thought…
12 Ways Busy Teachers Can Become Writers
I recently attended a conference about teaching writing and heard a keynote speaker invoke the familiar mantra that writing teachers must be writers themselves. The speaker extolled the many virtues of the writing life: you feel better; you put life…
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