Sourcing and Citation: A Practiced Technique
Finding and using sources; how did you learn the process? Perhaps it was something you honed through middle school and high school, gathering information from encyclopedias and web sites and laboriously incorporating them into a paper or science project. [read more...]
English Composition
Purposeful Group Work in the Classroom
2019-01-30Purposeful Group Work in the Classroom
One of the major trends in the teaching of writing is to have “group work.” In essence, this means that students work in small groups to accomplish a goal. One classroom is divided into multiple groups and then, the activity takes care of itself. Or does [read more...]
Using Student-Teacher Conferences to Create Opportunities for Learning
By Louisa Danielson
I was fortunate to have a wonderful teaching mentor who had some excellent ideas about teaching and the methodology behind getting students to write. It wasn’t so much a spoken theory he had, but a method [read more...]