Month: October 2018

This week I didn’t do something. It was amazing. Last year I assigned a (boring to grade, probably only slightly more interesting to write) paper about metal in the body. I instructed students to research bone replacement/repair and work out how metal was actually used in the body.  I even gave them a website to … Continue reading “The best thing I haven’t done”

An age-old question perhaps. How do you create great learning opportunities for your students when you are not in the room, not knowing which teacher with which experience will be covering your classes. It’s a particularly difficult question for me this Friday as I just found out I won’t be in class on Monday, but my major assessment … Continue reading “How do you engage your kids when you are not there?”

One paragraph in and I know I”m going to love this weeks topic! Week 7 in my “current issues in education” class has us looking at creativity. This is a topic I am becoming passionate about as I read and learn more about authentically creative experiences, the school experience and how often the two do … Continue reading “How do you let kids be bored?”

If you are lucky enough to be active on twitter you know there are a ton of great #hashtags and teachers that supply endless information about what is going on in their classroom, their successes, their projects and the honest ones even share their failure so that we can learn from that too. Personally, I … Continue reading “Where do you find inspiration?”