Rubrics are a lifesaver when it comes to managing the grading load. Most English teachers are no stranger to rubrics—it’s how most of us grade essays—but in order to cut grading time and try to promote consistency within our PLC, we started using them for just about everything.
There seems to be no shortage of opinions on the flipped classroom model and in a post-pandemic, post-distance/digital learning world,…
While there are certainly as many variations to the approach as there are teachers using it, the basic concept is that the traditional classroom structure is “flipped” so that students watch lectures and instructional videos at home, and then they use class time to complete the higher-order thinking tasks that would traditionally be assigned as homework.
As English teachers, we have a real love-hate relationship with ELA assessments. They are, of course, an important part of…
After a few bad experiences with Internet tests, we have largely written our own, and through years of trial and error, we’ve developed a set of guidelines that help us create fair tests that measure student understanding.
Have you ever been standing at the front of your classroom wondering if your students are really X years old…