Don’t Make Your Classroom Flip, A Flop
Teachers constantly look for ways to make best use of their limited class time. That’s one reason why many teachers have taken to “flipping” their classrooms in recent years. ...
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High School Angst: Calming Freshman Jitters
No matter the grade level you are teaching, the new school year brings excitement: a new class list, configuring seating arrangement, hanging inspirational posters or ...
Top Tips for Parent Interviews
Preparing for parent-teacher interviews can be as stressful, perhaps more, than assembling the grades often discussed at them—especially because teachers often receive little ...
The New Health Curriculum: More Than Just Sex
For the first time in almost 20 years, Ontario’s health curriculum has received a major overhaul. Although some parent and religious groups have mounted protests, Ontario’s ...
Cursive Writing: Beneficial or Lost Art?
Want to build your students’ minds or bodies, or just need something new to add to your art lessons? You might want to consider re-introducing handwriting.
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, ...
The Altruistic Tourist
Imagine you are standing in the hot sun on an exotic holiday wearing shorts and sandals. The sky is blue, the grass is green, and you’re looking forward to an evening bike ...
Real-World Tips for Anti-Bullying
Today it appears that bullying incidents are under the microscope as much as they have ever been. Some would say this is an undesired outcome of an expanded role by the media ...
What Your Kids Are Really Doing Online
The Internet affords children endless opportunities to get into serious trouble... But the good news is there’s another use for the Internet that’s attracting their time and ...
Behind the Scenes of The Shadowed Road
Strangely, when I conceived of the online, educational project, The Shadowed Road, it never occurred to me to actually go there.