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16 Jan

Top 5 Reasons I Love My Students

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Blog, Education Today, Grades 6-9, Teaching, Why I Teach
By Karen Salsbury   Let’s face it, some days we need a reminder.  It can get really hard during the long winter months to remember why we began teaching in the first place and why we actually like our students…let alone love them.  When we take a moment to reflect on these reasons, we start to see the good in our kiddos.  This makes us a better teacher and motivates us to come up with the best learning strategies ever.  So Read More...
27 Jul

13 Must-do’s to get You & Your Classroom Ready for Back-to-School

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Blog, Education Today, Grades 10-12, Grades 6-9, Teaching
By Karen Salsbury, M.S.Ed/Rdg   BE PREPARED!  The key to starting out on a positive note!  It’s much easier to start the school year on a positive note than to find yourself months into the year and trying to get your systems set up and dealing with students who are disconnected and confused.  Students need to know where and how things get done, or you will find yourself “pulling your hair out.”  Listed below are 13 must-dos to help you get Read More...
02 Jul

Top 7 Procedures for Annotating (Great for all Subjects!) Close Reading at its best

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Close Reading, Grades 6-9
by Karen Salsbury, M.S. Ed/Reading Close reading is huge!  We’ve always had this in education, but not defined it as the Common Core has done.  The major success in a close reading strategy is learning how to annotate properly. Many students today are borderline illiterate and lacking in critical thinking skills given the amount of “watching” versus the amount of “reading” done in today’s society.  Before the Internet, students had to research and read from printed text, now they can find Read More...
21 Mar

6 Best Practices for Teaching Fractions

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Blog, Grades 6-9, Math Best Practices
"Students must adopt new rules for fractions very often with well-established ideas about whole numbers. For example, when ordering fractions like numerators, students learn that 1/3 is a lot less than 1/2. With whole numbers, however, 3 is higher than 2." The difficulty students have with fractions mustn't be surprising with the complexity of the concepts involved. Students must adopt new rules for fractions very often with well-established ideas about whole numbers. For example, when ordering fractions like numerators, students Read More...
15 Mar

15 Best Practices for How to Write a Narrative

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Grades 10-12, Grades 6-9, Writing Best Practices
"A narrative essay could possibly be "about" a specific issue, theme, or concept, nevertheless it uses a personal story as an instance or idea." Narrative essays can be assigned items of writing at different stages through school. Typically, assignments involve telling an account from your own life that connects with class themes. It can be a fun form of assignment to create, when you approach it properly. Learn how to pick a good topic, get yourself a solid rough draft Read More...
09 Mar

6 Best Practices to Writing an Argumentative Essay

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Grades 10-12, Grades 6-9, Writing Best Practices
"There are two sides to every single argument topic, and there must be valid information to back up and oppose both sides." Essays are extremely common in senior high school and college, and you’re usually forced to write these essays without much input from the teacher about them. Much of your discovering the types of essays is anticipated to have derived from elementary school and junior-senior high school. Argumentative essays are discussing topics that result in an argument. There are Read More...
29 Feb

6 Best Practices to Writing an Informational Text Essay

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Grades 10-12, Grades 6-9, Writing Best Practices
"The art of writing a polished essay requires extreme focus to detail." Some students possess an innate talent for writing a compelling paper, and some require a tighter methodology to obtain the same results. While natural writing abilities may differ from student to student, an excellent writing process can improve most results. Many in the standard writing practices found in the current education system have long roots hashed out several years ago. Proven methodology and technologies can help the existing Read More...
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