“One minute she gives one interpretation; the next minute she gives another. Then she asks for our opinions. We’re the students. She’s the teacher. She should tell us what the works mean.”It was a long semester, and it gradually became clear to me that my ideas about education ...
in large letters, “How’s the weather today?”. Below that write “Today it’s”. Cut out weather pictures (such as from ourweather flashcards) and stick some velcro on the back of each picture. Arrange the weather pictures around the edge...
Teacher writes on the board an activity like “brush your teeth.” S/He picks one student, they come to the front of the class. The teacher then shows the student a card with an adverb written on it, such as “slowly”. The chosen student then does the activity in the way of the ...
A good way to get a competitive edge is to write down a game plan for what you're going to do in a contest round. This will help you script out your actions, in terms of what to do both when things go right and when things go wrong. This way you can spend your thinking time i...
Now, there’s a lot to this question. Remember that I was once part of the “agents who write” club. So I don’t know if I can get on board with some of the more judgmental language here (“pimping,”“backwards,”“gross,” etc.). But I’m sure a lot of aspiring writers ha...
As a kid, I had a hard time reading and writing. Letters and numbers looked backwards to me, and I was always falling behind my classmates in elementary school. The other students often played tricks on me and only stopped when I fought with a kid who was laughing at me. At 16, I ...
I blogged about those letters and the days when they were necessary,and I posed a kind of crazy promise to the Internet: that if you asked me for ahand-written letter, I would write you one, no questions asked. Overnight, myinbo_ morphed into this harbor of heartbreak -- a single ...
Before class, prepare a piece of cardboard and cover it with blue felt (to represent the sky). Write at the top of the board, in large letters, “How’s the weather today?”. Below that write “Today it’s”. Cut out weather pictures (such as from ourweather flashcards) and stick...
him/her around the classroom. The teacher does an action and shouts out the word for that action. The students copy the action and repeat the word. Good actions include: wave hello/goodbye, it’s cold/hot, stop, go, run, hop, skip, crawl, walk backwards, jump, sit down, stand up....
Prepare a weather board. Before the first class prepare a piece of cardboard and cover it with felt – you are going to pin this to the wall. If you can, try and get blue felt (to represent the sky). Write at the top in large letters, “How’s the weather today?”. Below that...