This past week end, I started teaching my arts integration grad course through the district in which I work. 16 teachers from grades Pre K-12 gathered together and worked hard getting started on the track of Arts Integration. It was wonderful! We talked, we listened, we created, we collaborated, we connected. What else can you [...]
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My last post RE-Assigning Work is a tangent thought to the thoughts in this one. There I spoke of how sometimes the assignments we give need to be given back to our students so that they can try again and do better work. (It’s part of the process, after all of becoming better at something.) [...]
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Brittany Lyons offers us an interesting perspective on English teachers in Taiwan who are using their art to help themselves create a sense of home. ~EMP Although teaching English in a non-English speaking nation has become a popular short-term career choice for many recent college graduates and even those with PhDs, it is far from [...]
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I’m completing a online wellness challenge through my school’s health insurance. Overall, I’m logging in my time exercising each day and weight each week, but each week there is also some other challenge. One week it was to eat up to 9 servings of fruits and veggies, the next it was to keep a food [...]
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Kristina Peterson offers us this beautiful piece on teaching. Enjoy. ~EMP …then a different question presented itself: “Am I a good teacher?” And he had to answer, “No, I’m not – not always. For teaching is an art: Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t” (Strafford, The Muses Among Us 2003, 70). Once upon a [...]
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In my last post, “Common Formative Assessments Built by PLCs,” I talked about what common formative assessments are as a reflection of my reading Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work – New Insights for Improving Schools (DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, 2008). But you may be wondering WHY you would do this. I’d like to explore that [...]
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PLCs are Professional Learning Communities made up of teachers who work together in a professional environment to discuss student work and help student learning. This year, I joined a book club at my school that is reading Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work – New Insights for Improving Schools (DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, 2008). Throught the [...]
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If there’s one thing that’s overlooked in education, it’s professional development where teachers are able to feed their own fires. Sound corny? Ya, a little bit, but it’s true! If you want to know why I said it that way, read this post where I first started talking about feeding our flames. But basically, what [...]
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Summer was fun, relaxing, rejuvenating, busy, short, eventful, and satisfying. And now, summer is officially over. Sorry – someone had to say it! But with summer over, a new school year begins and I for one feel like I need that structure again. My hope is that I will find that balance of health and [...]
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