Tag Archives: classroom management
25 Bellringer, “Do Now,” or Early Finisher Ideas to Start Your Year off Right!
TweetShareLooking for a few new ideas to get next year started off right? Need some ideas that are not just Daily Oral Language? There is much debate on whether a warm-up activity should be related only to previous lessons or to help introduce the day’s material, or whether a warm-up can be totally unrelated to [...]
7 Essential Procedures to Teach the First Week of School
TweetShareBack to School is just around the corner! For some, it has already started! Can you believe it? Didn’t summer JUST START? I’ve been thinking of some ways to ease the transition into the new school year, and for sure, making sure your students know how your classroom works is an important start to making [...]
What Does Plagiarism Look Like? 10 Free Resources to help you develop your own Plagiarism Policy, educate yourself and your students, and detect unoriginal work
TweetShare I will never forget the first time I knew I had caught a cheater. It was in my first year teaching, and I remember that I really, really wanted to make sure that my kids turned in original work–I was very sensitive to plagiarism, since I had been accused of it once (long story; I [...]
Tips for Writing Great Quizzes and Tests
TweetShare Good assessments will help you correctly and effectively assess your students’ knowledge and comprehension of a text so that you can more successfully schedule and utilize the precious time you have with your students. First, decide the goal of the assessment. Do you want to quickly check that your students have actually read the [...]
Nine tips for taking notes in a book (without ticking off your librarian!)
TweetShare When I took my first English class right out of high school, I was shocked that not only did we have to purchase our own books, but we were even allowed to write in them! I had always been told not to write in my schoolbooks—and all I ever saw written were things like [...]
