7 fun and easy activities for teaching weathering
Teaching weathering is one of the great things about being a humanities or social sciences teacher. What’s not to love about showing students the fascinating landscapes of our planet? Add to that the exploration of how the Earth creates these landscapes and you have...
5 fun ways to use blank comic strip templates in your class
Today we're looking at five fun ways to use blank comic strip templates in your class. Picture this. It's 3.05 on a Wednesday afternoon. You have to finish work, get to your kid’s daycare, wrestle them into a car seat, and take them to a doctor's appointment. You...
7 Easy tips to teach tweens and teens how to manage study time
Do your teens and tweens struggle to manage their study time? Are you constantly met with excuses when assignments are supposed to be handed in? Are you pulling out your hair wondering what to do to get your students to learn how to manage study time? We all know that...
5 fast and easy tips for how to teach Shakespeare: sonnets
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...
Fear of test taking: 7 tips to help your students overcome test anxiety
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.
7 easy tips for teaching William Shakespeare’s sonnets
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...
3 fast and easy ways of teaching students to take notes
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...
Managing study time: 7 easy tips to teach your students study skills
Managing study time is a difficult set of skills to learn - especially if nobody has ever taken the time to teach you. Many middle and high school teachers assume that students are being taught organizational skills at home (such as how to plan study time), but often...
Avoiding procrastination: 10 tips to teach your students how to stop procrastinating
Have you ever had that circular argument with your students about using class time wisely? You know the kind. They have a paper or project due in a week. They haven’t done much about it. And they’re sitting in class goofing off, talking to their friends, and doing...
What is metacognitive strategy? Plus 6 easy tips for teachers to use it
Have you heard the terms metacognitive skills or metacognitive strategy bandied about at work or in the staff room and wondered, hmmmm, what am I missing? If so, read on because in this post we’re going to look at what is metacognitive strategy and how you can use it...
