Engaging students in the classroom gets more challenging each year. Students are bombarded with more and more stimuli in their day-to-day lives. Gaming systems and social media technology sets the...
Category: Teaching Ideas
1.Introduction How To Motivate Students Even in normal years, motivating your students to achieve their goals and potential can be one of the most challenging aspects of teaching. 2020 has been a...
I'm upset. We had a faculty meeting in my school today, where the principal nicely asked for feedback as to how we're doing. And teachers explained how they were working from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m....
How to Create Interactive & Differentiated Activities with Google Slides for Secondary Students
With the advent of remote teaching came stress and a steep learning curve. A positive byproduct of the pandemic is some great new ways to engage students. One activity format that I have embraced...
How to Create Drag & Drop Activities for Secondary Social Studies (With Free Templates)
The year is 2020; teaching will never, ever be the same. Teachers were charged with completely changing the way they taught, literally overnight. We had to keep teaching while we learned -- who was...
I use quotes in my classes all the time. One quote can be a warm-up or exit ticket or a group of quotes can be the meat of the lesson. Quotes help to bring "old dead guys" to life and humanize them....