Relationships as a Teaching Tool
I have lost count of the number of times I have been told that rules without relationships lead to rebellion. Yet today, relationships with students seem to be feared instead ...
Classroom Perspectives
Change Your Classroom With Gratitude
Sandra lives in a rooming house and arrived from Honduras last year. She is grateful for clean drinking water. Jasper has chronic arguments with his older brother, yet he is ...
The Trials and Tribulations of Substitute Teaching
It’s 8:25 AM and there are no notes left in the classroom. I scramble around the room and a few papers fall from the desk to the floor. I can hear the students chattering in ...
PBS Math Club Builds Confidence for ESL Students
While tutoring non-native English speakers, instructors are not only faced with the challenge of differentiating instruction for multiple subjects and learning levels, but we ...
Creating a Paperless Classroom
Like many of my students, I too use digital devices in my daily personal life, but the enormous piles of notes and paper combined with the constant fighting with the students ...
Teaching With Google Drive
In today’s world we experience so much technology that it has become a mainstay in our lives. Often our students know more about the digital age than we do, and are eager to ...
Drugs and the Classroom: A Teacher’s Strategy
This past year, in a small Midwest community, we lost a student to a drug overdose. We have lost many more to drug addiction, and although we haven’t attended their funerals, ...
Using Inquiry-Based Learning to Teach Math
My Inquiry-Based Learning journey started in 2012. I was skeptical at first, having made it through a Ph.D. program being taught almost exclusively with the traditional ...
Finding Hope: How I Taught the Rwanda Genocide
There really is no particular set of texts that tell you how to teach genocide so I began by talking about my own experience. As a 14-year-old kid, I watched the nightly news ...
How Cooperative Learning Made Me A Better Teacher
Let’s begin with the realization that what we all inherently understand is indeed true: kids are different today than they were when we were younger. You hear this stated by ...