Let your tactile learners express themselves by drawing and making things. Have them draw a scene with new vocabulary that they have just learned, or build and make things with lego or play doh.Craftsare also a great way to teach and reinforce new vocabulary. ...
In addition to my Rosemont poetry classes, I was happy to teach a couple of guest workshops for the online poetry journalOneArt(edited by Mark Danowsky). Those were fun, so I’ll probably do another next year. I have a few more poems included in the Poems section of this site. I’...
Depending on weather conditions, you can introduce more weather words (with pictures … you can get students to draw them), such as: stormy misty showery freezing humid frosty icy drizzly New learning and practice: 1. Teach rooms vocabularyBefore class, cut out 6 pictures of household objects ...
The camp wisely took everyone’s picture the first day when we arrived, not just because it would be the happiest and cleanest all the campers would look for the entire week, but also to have a current photo to distribute to any search and rescue teams in the unlikely event that a child...
(it's a bit hard to "read" an electronic character's tone!), and she also discussed with me what draws her into a store in real life and how that might be applied to the game. What I'd like to see as a mom are more of these games for boys. What would draw a boy in?
Although it is a brilliant and universal hook to connect with people and harness collective power, it is still a sport that reproduces the same hetero-patriarchy, capitalism and white supremacy prevalent in the rest of society. “I think when we consider the use of football as a useful tool...
since lost track of all our alumni using the skills I helped them develop enjoying meaningful, difference-making careers at the federal level. These are talented people who could have pursued far more lucrative careers in other fields, but they chose instead to dedicate their lives to public ...
This is a genuine drawn-in-class one. It was the introduction of Junker’s nemesis, “Spearmint Sherry”. The “Franco-Prussian War Flying Ace” was a running gag, of which this was the first instance. Another re-drawn one on printer paper, a tribute to Dr. Demento: A roughly drawn ...
If your cats are anything like mine then they like to climb. A lot. It is instinctual for all cats no matter their size. So how do you keep them happy when you want them off things like your bookshelves and your furniture? People might tell you to get a tree or get a condo. That...
I love this meme. I think of it often when I’m in class attempting to make bored teenagers believe me when I say ‘Shrek is not about an ogre who abandons a swamp’ or ‘Cars is not about cars’ or ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is not about ‘spying’.’ As a new teacher to En...