Looking for teaching ideas on Shakespeare? Today we’re going to cover 5 fast and easy tips for how to teach Shakespeare: sonnets edition. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you probably know the awful rookie mistakes I made when first teaching Shakespeare (if not, check out this post here and this one…

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Do your students have a genuine fear of test taking? Is it impacting their results or mental health? Check out this blogpost for 7 easy tips to help your students overcome test anxiety.

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Teaching William Shakespeare’s sonnets is a great way to introduce Shakespeare to students because the texts are so short they are like a bite-sized introduction to Shakespeare.   It’s far easier to convince students to analyze something that’s only 14 lines long, as opposed to something like Hamlet, which weighs in at about 4000 lines. And…

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Do your students struggle to take notes? Are you looking for fast and easy ways of teaching students to take notes?  Then you’re in the right place. But before we begin, students may need some convincing that taking notes is a skill worth learning.  You may need to show students why taking notes is a…

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