Helping Teachers Inspire Learners
How To Remember the War When You Weren’t There This is a very special version of Writing Sundays. This week, we learned about Remembering. This week, most of our time was dedicated to Remembrance Day/Veteran’s Day learning. When I began, I talked to my students about “remembering” the soldiers who fought in the war. One of my very special…
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Hello teacher friends… Thanks for visiting and seeing what we’ve been up to this week. This is the 7th edition of Writing Sundays. I hope you find some useful ideas for your classroom. In any given year, my writer’s workshop time is an integration of many different strategies and resources and “teachable moments”. I don’t see writing as a subject….
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First off, let me tell you that this edition of Writing Sundays will be short but sweet. Why? Two words: Parent Conferences. I’ll even throw out two more: Grand Opening. We spent the week planning and preparing for conferences and rehearsing and decorating for our school Grand Opening. Oh… and 1 more set of 2 words: Professional Development day. I…
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Student led conferences are one of the best things that you can do with your students to build ownership of learning. I tend to be the only one in the school that usually does student-led conferences in the Fall. Most of my colleagues feel that it’s too soon and that students won’t be prepared or have enough to share. They…
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This week I worked on teaching editing to my students. Teaching editing is not always easy to teach. I really try to work on creating writers that CARE about their work and want to edit. I find that is the best way to teach editing skills. This week was a short one due to the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. You know…
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Why is it that some students just seem to be able to work hard on their assignments or anything for that matter and other students get distracted so easily? There seems to be no shortage of ideas from teachers when it comes to school: 1. Too much time is spent playing video games. 2. Students are bored. 3. Students have…
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