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I begin each of my high school classes with “bell ringers.” These work well for secondary students; they know what to expect and class begins orderly. I’ve used several types…

Celebrating Holidays With Older Students can be done in the ELA classroom!  We high school teachers don’t handle the excitement of younger kids, but our big kids are excited about…

As a secondary teacher, I have two first days of school: one in August, the other in January. More hoopla surrounds August; students are pumped (even if they hide it),…

Celebrating fall holidays with older students requires a balancing act – like so much of teaching. As a teacher, you want students to enjoy the seasons. They are, after all,…

I recently wrote about implementing meaningful classroom procedures for older students. That post only brushed the surface, so I’m elaborating today about high school classroom management.  Classroom management. Theories surrounding…

I thought of meaningful classroom procedures last night. (I’m a teacher and I do such abnormalities.) I saw a pin of this article from Scholastic. It is largely geared toward younger…

Despite having the best lesson plan, teachers sometimes have a lesson plan finished with time on the clock. Hopefully it rarely happens, but it will occur. Sometimes a lesson flops. Other…

Teaching a subject you don’t like? I feel you. Here is what I do. April is National Poetry Month. If I were not an English teacher, I wouldn’t know this…