8 Strategies for Teaching Writing That Get Results
Let’s be honest: the writing process is MESSY. Good writing requires patience, time and effort, trial and error, ugly first…
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Teaching Writing: Assign a Paragraph, Not an Essay
Shifting how we were teaching writing to prioritize our focus on the paragraph rather than the essay was a gradual one for us, largely because we felt guilty not always assigning full essays, but the more we saw the benefits and the more we saw how we could apply our work with the paragraph to our work with essay structures, the more willing we were to shift our focus.
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10 Inspirational Books for Teens
When we think about high-interest books for students, we often jump straight to fiction: murder mysteries, fantasy, over-the-top drama, science…
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15 Time-Tested Strategies to Reduce Grading Time
What’s your least favorite part about teaching? There are many contenders: disrespect and apathy from students, ubiquitous cell phones, difficult…
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Engaging Books for Mature Young Adults
While books from the young adult genre are usually a safe bet when trying to make high-interest First Chapter Friday…
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Teachers, Don’t Let an AP Exam Score Define You
There are many things we’re passionate about here at Three Heads: coffee, the superiority of dark chocolate to milk chocolate,…
