Spring brings senioritis, a phenomenon so real that Microsoft Word apparently recognizes it as a legitimate word. For graduating seniors, the anticipation has been building for months, if not years. As the weather gets warmer and the date can be …
Whether teaching or tutoring, a harsh truth awaits the instructor. At some point, a student is going to refuse to cooperate. That student might progress from being obstinate to being outright antagonistic. The instructor could have difficulty mustering the patience …
Health instruction typically isn’t controversial. Discussions of sex education are the most common exception. More conventional units on fitness, safety, and overall wellness tend to pass without incident. Similarly, nutrition lessons rarely create any tumult. A unit that examines vegetarianism …
Across much of America, spring means testing season. Students, parents, and even teachers tend to lament the season’s arrival. Standardized assessments remain controversial and polarizing. Most students will face them in one form or another in the latter half of …
A well-known adage in education suggests every teacher is a reading teacher. By extension, every teacher also might be a writing teacher. Writing serves different purposes across content areas. In a math class, writing might be less about crafting eloquent …
Students often come to the guitar to emulate their favorite bands or guitarists. Many have specific ideas about what style of music they wish to play. Mastering that style and modeling their playing after their idols motivates these students. It …
Student writing portfolios make sense as assessment tools in English language arts classes, but they have broader utility. Not only can teachers employ these across content areas as meaningful forms of assessment, they can help students build them to be …
With the majority of students with IEPs receiving instruction through the general education curriculum, IEP teams must establish how to fairly assess these students. Most students with IEPs will take the same formative and summative assessments students without IEPs take. …
Music always has either directly or indirectly reflected the times of the songwriters who have made it. In this way, music has acted as a secondary and even a primary source for historical events and select periods of history. Sometimes …
Schools have the responsibility of providing a general education for the students in their charge, but they can do this most effectively when the have the support of parents. Parents typically want to be partners in the education of their …