Category Archives: Classroom management
Individual accountability with collaborative learning
It’s amazing what a good day toward the end of the week can do for an intern. I’m able to look at everything in my teaching with a positive light. And even with the things that I know I need … Continue reading
Vlog: Focusing on student engagement
This is a vlog post regarding student engagement and motivation in the classroom, as well as outlining my plans to help increase class participation. http://www.viddler.com/player/bd0ae6fe/ This video is password protected. For access to the video, please send me an e-mail … Continue reading
Filed under Classroom management, Education, English, Motivation, Personal, Student Teaching, Students, Teaching
Student motivation: Part I
I was going to title this something like “Who to blame when it comes to student motivation,” but the word “blame” seemed too negative. And I couldn’t think of anything creative because I thought it might take away from the … Continue reading
Telling students about the learning process
Been awhile since my last post, but things are going great. I’ve been observed quite a few times already by both my university supervisor and my mentor. And they both thing I’m progressing at a rapid rate, which is a … Continue reading
Motivating students to do their homework, to read
Today, I had this tweet about my students not doing their homework and reading. A little background: it’s a college in the high school classroom. So, basically, students are expected to do the college amount of reading (say, on average, … Continue reading
Teaching difficult texts
Just a short post that got me thinking about this. In our Inquiry Education class, we read Wintergirls, a novel about a young girl, Lia, who has anorexia. It takes place in the days, weeks and months after her “best … Continue reading
Filed under Books, Class assignment, Classroom management, Education, English, Ethics, Lesson, Lesson planning, Reading, Teaching
Beliefs in teaching English (a followup)
A quick update to my response on what I feel about teaching high school English. There’s roughly 20 in my Introduction to Inquiry class and we all talked about our beliefs for a minute or so. We were asked to … Continue reading
Filed under Class assignment, Classroom management, Communication, Education, English, Teaching, Writing
