by mindroar | Mar 26, 2021 | blog, Crash Course Study Skills, teaching strategies, teaching study skills
Are you approaching that time during the academic year when deadlines are flying at your face like lemon meringue pie at a clown? Do your students have a dedicated study skills class? Or do you just want to help your students to brush up on their study skills in your...
by mindroar | Feb 20, 2021 | blog, teaching strategies, teaching study skills
Imagine this, you are at home after work. Teacher-brain has descended and you feel like your brain is processing at half-speed. You walk in the door, hang your bag on a hook, unpack your kids’ bags, and turn on the TV hoping to distract said kids while you cook...
by mindroar | Jan 28, 2021 | blog, reasons why you should, teaching, teaching strategies, teaching study skills
“This is boring!” said Billie-Jean to her friend seated next to her. I wasn’t supposed to hear it, but I did. And my heart sank a little. Medieval history was one of my favorite topics to teach in my Year 9 Social Sciences class. All those castles,...
by mindroar | Jan 14, 2021 | blog, teaching study skills
In the first senior English class I taught, I was stunned one day when I asked students to write a bibliography for their research paper only to be met with blank stares and *crickets*. So, I spent the next 20 minutes explaining how to research. On the board, I drew...
by mindroar | Oct 9, 2020 | blog, teaching study skills
How often have you marked a student paper only to find a Wikipedia entry staring back at you? You taught them digital research skills, but their work doesn’t show that you have. Cue the sigh and face-palm. As teachers, we’ve all been there. But maybe...
by mindroar | Apr 16, 2020 | blog, teaching strategies, teaching study skills
The first time I heard about visual note-taking (also called sketch notes or doodle notes), I thought letting kids draw in class was crazy! How could students remember information if it was drawn in their books? How would kids remember all the facts, stats, ideas, and...
