Real Projects for Real Students
This year I’m using a project-based approach to teach my eighth grade English class. The students are in the process of planning a multimedia site consisting of a blog, an audio podcast and a...
Author: Nick
Everything You Need to Know to Be a Great Teacher
There are only three things needful for becoming a great teacher: Know your subject. If you’re a Language Arts teacher, then write professionally and read voraciously. If you’re science teacher, then conduct experiments and...
Recommended Reading List for Junior High by Nancie Atwell
Nancie Atwell’s book The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers is a manifesto for change in reading classrooms. She successfully argues that the key to reading instruction is...
New Poll and Other Site News
There are a couple of site changes to take note of this week: [The poll has expired.] You might have noticed a new menu item called Book Store. This is the Teen Literacy Bookstore,...
