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Teachers’ Pet Peeves

September 19, 2018 By Jamie Edwards Leave a Comment

The older I get, the more it seems as if the little sayings and phrases I heard growing up are falling by the wayside. Every so often my students remind me of this in a truly spectacular way. A perfect example occurred when I introduced an expository essay topic that was going to be the […]

Filed Under: Resources, Student Wrangling, Survival Tips Tagged With: cheating, parents, pet peeves, students

Cheating: The Academic Epidemic

September 11, 2018 By Jamie Edwards Leave a Comment

Benjamin Franklin once famously stated, “Honesty is the best policy.” Yet it seems as though people seem to drift further and further away from this belief and nowhere is this more evident than in the classroom. Cheating in school has been happening as long as there has been school. The difference is that now it […]

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The Devil’s in the Testing Details

September 5, 2018 By Jamie Edwards Leave a Comment

“Standardized testing” are two words that cause extreme visceral reactions in teachers. Why? It’s just a test. Right? Wrong! For many teachers, standardized tests are the reason they are leaving the classroom. I’m not talking about beginning teachers, no, I am talking about seasoned veterans with advanced degrees and years of teaching experience. The teachers […]

Filed Under: Lesson Writing, Resources, Student Wrangling, Survival Tips, Teacher Ideas Tagged With: standardized, standardized testing, testing

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You can easily break grading 📝 an essay 📓 in You can easily break grading 📝 an essay 📓 into smaller parts by having your students: 🖌 highlight the thesis statement, 🔎circle transitions, underline examples of work choice🎨 or sentence fluency 🧩, etc. 

You will quickly read 📖the whole essay, but the grade comes from the specific element(s) that were the focus of the lesson and identified by the students. 

This strategy will save you tons of time ⏰ and will result in students writing ✏️better essays.

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So again, I wasted a ton of time doing the colorin So again, I wasted a ton of time doing the coloring app. I tell myself that I’ll use it as a post, so it’s not necessarily wasting time, right?!?!

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