by mindroar | Mar 1, 2021 | blog, English literature, free resources, teaching English, teaching Shakespeare
Can you feel it? That sinking feeling in your stomach. The butterflies that flutter there. The miasmic dread that descends and weighs you down as you look at your teacher planner to see that you have to teach Shakespeare next week. Don’t worry, we’ve got...
by mindroar | Mar 27, 2020 | blog, free resources, Freebie Friday, teaching resources, teaching strategies
I’ve never had to do distance learning or teaching. But, for a semester while I earned my Master’s in Writing, Editing, and Publishing, I had the privilege of tutoring an introductory college/university-level English literature class. But, I broke out in a...
by mindroar | Jan 17, 2020 | #teacherlife, blog, English literature, free resources, Freebie Friday, teaching literature, teaching Shakespeare, video resources
Do you ever have those lessons where you look around your classroom and you can see the boredom swirl around the classroom like fog? I used to have a class that was almost catatonic every Thursday afternoon last lesson: Year 9s, after lunch, an hour until home time,...
by mindroar | Dec 6, 2019 | blog, free resources, Freebie Friday, teaching study skills, video resources
How many times have you sat at your desk marking your students tests only to think, “Geez, did they study at all?”. I know this feeling well, so I went in search of videos to show students examples of study skills. Because for whatever reason, my...
by mindroar | Nov 18, 2019 | #teacherlife, blog, Crash Course Literature, Crash Course Study Skills, free resources, teaching, teaching resources, video resources
It’s 4pm and you were supposed to pick up your kids from daycare half an hour ago, but you still have to figure out how to introduce that content-heavy lesson for tomorrow’s third period Year 9 English class. Your stomach sinks because you need to be...
by mindroar | Aug 6, 2018 | blog, free resources, teaching resources
It was a Thursday lunchtime, I had just rushed into my staffroom to inhale my lunch, and the next class was about to start in 10 minutes. Only problem? I had NOTHING planned. Cue the feeling in the pit of my stomach, slowly sinking as the minutes...
