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Monday, June 19, 2017

Teaching Reading: Opening the Cover to a World Full of Possibilities

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Reading is an activity that many people enjoy later in life. Even my husband as a child would never have considered reading for any reaso...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

Bare Walls and Empty Classrooms; Fresh Starts and New Beginnings

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Note: This post was written in the final days of school. It's taken me a little time to fully reflect on the year and catch my breath fr...
Saturday, May 6, 2017

Teach Speech: What I Learned from Year One of Teaching Community College

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May is here and the school year is winding down at a rapid pace. This year, in addition to my high school day job, I am fortunate enou...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Combatting Speech Anxiety: Ways to Increase Student Confidence with Public Speaking

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Recently, I have run into an overwhelming amount of anxiety in my sophomore classroom related to public speaking. For the past few years...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

Having Fun with Formative Assessment

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Formative assessment is a critical part of education as it measures learning and provides valuable information to teachers about student c...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Using Feedback to Make Assessments More Meaningful

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This semester, one of my goals has been rethinking feedback - how I give it, how I maximize the impact of feedback given, and how I can p...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

Reflecting on Google Classroom: Evolving with the Updates

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Google Classroom was released in August 2014. In that time, its evolution has provided a platform that not only helps instructors d...