by Elizabeth Peterson | Arts Education and Integration, General Education Topics
Some teachers spend a lot of time putting up displays. It seems to be second nature: display important content, display reminders, attractive posters and of course, student work. If you are like me, you don’t always have the time to do and redo bulletin boards...
by Elizabeth Peterson | General Education Topics
I love to tell my students that it’s my job to push them. I want them to work hard and not settle for ok. I have so many smart kids in my class who just have a natural gift to do well in school, but I like to push them. The same is true with all my students. ...
by Elizabeth Peterson | General Education Topics
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...
by Elizabeth Peterson | General Education Topics
I sat correcting journals this week end and was reflecting on the quality of the work that lay in front of me. Honestly, it wasn’t very good. There were missing capitals and end marks, sentences that were vague and penmanship that seemed rushed. As I sat at...
by Elizabeth Peterson | Arts Education and Integration
Recently, I was honored to be invited to visit an arts integration school here in New Hampshire. The Seacoast Charter School in Kingston, NH is devoted to providing their students with both arts education and integration as a means to a well rounded education. During...
