No doubt about it–video is a powerful learning tool. Here are three quick tips to improve the quality of the YouTube videos you share with your students.
Tech Tools
Try Quizlet Live in Your Classroom
It is easy to facilitate, fun to play, and requires a cooperative effort–students have to work together to get the right answers.
Resources
For & Against: An Organizer for Argument
Use this free organizer to help your students make the switch from persuasion to argument.
Resources - Teaching
Fun (and Educational) Fillers
A few “tricks up your sleeve” to use for last-minute sub plans, a few spare minutes, or when the copy machine breaks.
Inspiration - Texts
Poems for the New Year
Resolve to share a poem a day (or every other day?) with your students.
Holidays - Texts
Cast a Spell with Halloween Poetry
Carve out some time this season to show your spirit, treating your students to a little fun and a lot of learning.
Resources - Teaching
A Few of My Favorite Pins
Last week I pinned my 1,000th pin on Pinterest. One thousand good teaching ideas! I was afraid of the time-wasting potential of Pinterest when I joined about a year ago, […]
Resources - Teaching
Plant the Seeds Now for Next Year
The countdown began when we returned from Spring Break two weeks ago; now those not-so-subtle signs are appearing in the corners of more and more classroom white boards. Sometimes it’s […]
Resources
An Oldie but Goodie
In recognition of Throwback Thursday, I thought I’d share one of my favorite teacing resources: The Lively Art of Writing by Lucile Vaughan Payne. I was introduced to this book as […]