I lean toward Luddite. I use “the Facebook” and “the Netflix” and I have an e-reader so I can read on vacation without having to pack a trillion books. But, I have just a handful of apps on my very outdated phone because that’s all
Disclaimer 1: This post is the third in a series on planning. The first part of the series covered Long Range Plans. The second part of the series covered Unit Planning. You wouldn’t read Prisoner of Azkaban without reading Sorcerer’s Stone and Chamber of Secrets,
This post is the second in a series on my lesson planning process. I teach 5th grade Language Arts and Social Studies in Baltimore County, Maryland. The first part of this series was on long-range planning in a post called, “The Process of Planning: 3
We all know lesson planning takes time and a lot of effort. Co-planning for co-teaching requires dedicated time and collaborative effort by two or more people. Whether co-planning with another educator or a student teacher, the co-planning process involves additional tasks not found in individual
The question for our generation of teachers is this: How do we design lessons that will prepare students to solve problems that adults can’t currently solve? In other words, how can they transfer what they’ve learned in school to make sense of the world and
Throughout our careers we have all taught a variety of students in our classrooms. Amongst these diverse learners some of the most challenging have been students who are disengaged in our classes and do not find what we are teaching them as relevant. So, how