I am not a teacher. However, I recently came across a posting on the web by someone who claims that teachers are overpaid. I think she is very wrong and wanted to somehow make teachers in the US aware of her false allegations. Follow the link below to find the post. A quick search shows that she posts on several blogs, and claims to be a forensic ...

I thought this was a response worth sharing.  I validates why I do the assignment. Miss A, thank you so much for letting us have another freedom writing journal, the first was very helpful to me because I needed to express myself in writing instead of going to my 7th period and start making my friend [...]

I had my students complete foldables on the the Middle Ages.  I told them that they could use whatever information they put in this particular foldable on the test.  I did inform them that the foldable itself would be a seperate test grade.  Here is a slide show of some quality products.   | View | Upload [...]

One day when I was really down about my students and teaching, David popped up and gave me some ideas.  He suggested that I try to give my students motivation or inspiration.  At first, I thought, “That’s not my job, that’s their mama’s job.”  But afterwards, I realized that my students are not getting encouragement ...

I have been busier than a dog with flees!!!   I’ve been trying to catch up on paperwork.  I feel like I’m drowing in it.  Failure reports, lesson plans, parental contacts, conferences. . . it never ends.  But, I have learned to organize myself a little better for it. We’ve had report cards again and this time I [...]

After chatting with a colleague online and reading some of your comments about teaching strategies etc, I realized that maybe I’ve been to restrictive with my students.  Maybe I haven’t been providing them with the inspiration and motivation they need to be successful in my classroom.  So, a couple a weeks ago, I started having [...]

So, I’m still trying create a classroom that fully engages students.  On Wednesday, we made vocabulary foldable for our unit on the early Middle Ages.   It was sort of babyish activity for the kids, but I think they really liked it and preferred it to taking notes.  It was interesting b/c there are kids I normally [...]

Remember, I told you a few days ago that I was having my students rewrite children’s songs with our subject matter.  Here are two of the student products.   I figure I can show them b/c they do not have any of the students names AND the student’s faces are shown.  (Let me know if this [...]

I wanted to review how my lesson with my 5th period went today.  I gave each of the students a topic and a children’s song title.  My instructions were to remix/rewrite the children’s song using the topic assigned.  These high school freshman loved this activity–what made them really happy is that I let them pick [...]

I realize that I’ve been venting A LOT lately.  I’ve decided in honor of Christmas, I’m going to attempt to be positive at least until Christmas.  I don’t want to be that evil person who never has anything to positive to say.  So here are somethings that are going on in my classroom, since I attended that worshop ...