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A Few Strategies to Help Slow-Working Students

…to more 2e information is really helpful. Debbie Sachs Thanks for letting us know you found this post to be helpful, Ashley! Might be a good one to share with teachers and admin! Julie I give a weekly syllabus chart to my 7th graders on Monday of the week, with columns for the name of the activity, the estimated time, the basic directions and where more specific info can be found, the places to find resources, and the due date – this is a Nancy Sulla strategy. One day with about 30 minutes left of class, there was a “disturbance”…

5 Ways College Teachers Can Improve Their Instruction

…as about 10x more valuable than professional development. Love your site and your topics! Thank you. Melissa Shaffer This post totally resonated with me as I currently teach 3 community college classes now, 2 of which I never thought I’d have to address behavior in a college syllabus, but sure wish I did earlier! I actually just finished a draft on why K-12 educators were the perfect match for teaching at community colleges. Are you currently accepting guest bloggers? I noticed you’ve listed several from reading your site, and I’d love to contribute to this very topic. Holly Burcham Hi,…

How World Language Teaching Has Evolved

Richard Detwiler Hi Jennifer, I was excited to see that you were doing a session on world language teaching, but a little disappointed to see the agenda. The ACTFL inspired changes to language classroom pedagogy are about 15 years behind the forefront of the language teaching evolution. They are all good developments to help teachers get away from the grammar-based syllabus and textbook, but the language teaching revolution that has brought the greatest changes is generally called these days teaching with comprehensible input, abbreviated to CI by teacher practitioners. ACTFL has only recently begun to recognize the CI movement by…

Where to Find Real History in the Anti-CRT Era

Tina Thank you! I will add my go-to source: SHEG – Stanford History Education Group: https://sheg.stanford.edu/ Clare Brown University-Choices Program is great. The Tenement Museum has excellent resources for teachers to teach about history/immigration. Jeff Collins I’ve been interested in this resource for a while and have used many of the primary sources. Wondering what others may think. I’m an ELA teacher, the perspective of a SS teacher would be appreciated and helpful. https://www.americanyawp.com/ Deb Schiano May want to check these out: -The Knotted Line https://knottedline.com/ -Institutional Racism: A Syllabus (via JSTOR) https://daily.jstor.org/institutionalized-racism-a-syllabus/ -Moving the Line https://jsteele2003.github.io/msdv_thesis/redlining/dist/index.html -Seeing White (Podcast…

How to Turn Rubric Scores into Grades

…grades or marks (points) because I generally use a 3 or 5 point category scale. With a 5 point scale each item (which comes from my state syllabus) has criteria for grades from A-E or points 5-1. I usually mark out of 15, but it’s easily adjusted to suit the task. Shimon Shari – I really like the CFS rubric and I’ve used something similar with the scale. I’m curious as to how you would translate that into a grade? If a student was “approaching expectations” in each category (7, 4, 4, 2, 2) they would have 19 out of…

Why is my kid allowed to make spelling mistakes?

…explain why we have high school graduates who cannot read or write; school administrators and young university professors who cannot communicate effectively. I have the glaring consequences of the “look the other way” method, hanging on my wall of shame. Course documents written by Ivy League English Comp and Literature professors, which were provided to students over the past two decades (online course syllabus, weekly reading and writing assignments, open-book quizzes, etc). From incorrect usage of common homophones (to-too-two, their-they’re-they’re), to a failure to spell authors’ names, straight off the cover of books they have assigned. Dr. Flake should be…

9 Ways Online Teaching Should be Different from Face-to-Face

…one on one personal interview so I can set some boundaries with teaching the Certified Nursing Student. Have to set these in beginning with Syllabus/Student Handbook. Vincent Chambers Very informative material with lots of ins and outs on how to deal with the situation but either way this situation is gonna be very very challenging for everyone involved. I just hope everyone does their best to work through the situation positively. LaDonna Barnhill Loved this article with Ms. Kitchen. The one thing I’ve learned to focus on with online learning is the most essential part of each learning target. I…

How to Feng Shui Your Charts and Tables

…all) of these things using Google Docs and other apps in the Google Suite. Jenn has a “course” called Google Drive Basics that I’d definitely look into. You can find it here: https://goo.gl/X8WLyH If you have questions about specific things you’d like to try, you can email us support@cultofpedagogy.com and we can do our best to help! Patrick Thank you, the explanation about the “bullet” and the “text” location was particularly helpful to me. I bought your syllabus as I think it is an excellent template. Well done, congrats, (and thank you!)! Your website name is indeed a book title!…