Freshman english

5 Back to School Units for High School English that you really can use at any point during the year. Units that can help you recreate...

Now that the 2017-2018 school year has come to a close, I am spending some time reflecting on my practice as an educator. While there were some lows of the

By Presto Plans I first realized the power of bell ringers years ago, thanks to a particularly unruly class that would bounce off my walls after lunch. After consistently wasting the first ten minutes of class getting students seated, settled, and ready to learn, I decided to give bell-ringers a try. They were immediately a classroom game-changer. Bell-ringers—sometimes referred to as “warm ups” or “do nows”— are questions, tasks, or other warm up activities that students complete at the…

Begin each of your classes with bell ringers or warm up activities that your middle or high school English students will love!

I was recently looking back at my goals for the 2015-2016 school year, and one was to embrace some elementary teaching methods in my second...

Don't go back to school unprepared. Here's 17 of my blog posts that may help you as you plan whether it's the first day of school of your first year in the classroom or an even better year two, three, ten, twenty, or even thirty. Get information about my first lessons, decorating the classroom, establishing routines, building parent partnerships, and managing student behavior.