by Elizabeth Peterson | Arts Education and Integration, Classroom Stories, General Education Topics
The paint is missing! The paint! The paint! Oh where, oh where has it gone? I see it no more, when I open the door. Oh where, oh where has it gone? It has been replaced, replaced, you say And what, and what is there now? Is it glue, is it glitter, is it...
by Elizabeth Peterson | Arts Education and Integration
Today was an example of integration and collaboration at its best! Every Tuesday and Wednesday the music teacher, at my school (and my mentee and friend, Johanna) comes into my classroom for a 30 minute intervention period to assist with whatever we are doing in...
by Elizabeth Peterson | General Education Topics
I had heard the phrase “it takes a village” many times before and after I had children. It was in those first couple of years of raising two kids that I thought it was just an old fashioned saying. However, in the last few years I have come to...
by Elizabeth Peterson | General Education Topics
I could focus on the negative things that have to do with standardized testing: for students, parents, and of course teachers. But today I’m going to try and be positive and focus on something good that actually came out of testing this year. Something I...
by Elizabeth Peterson | Classroom Stories, General Education Topics
Every so often you hit something just right with a student or group of students. Sometimes you try to do so and succeed (or fail). Other times, you are just doing what you do and something just strikes right. That has happened to me this year with some of my...
