Inspired by a friend who had to be absent the week before finals because her husband had to have emergency surgery, I put together my best sub plans advice. I am a sub plan master Ninja. The last semester I taught, in an 18 week period, there were only two weeks I was there all …
I should just call this semester reflections since I only teach semesters now. The biggest “change” to my teaching this semester is how I graded my French 101 class. First, I ditched the weekly lesson quiz. Did I care? Nope? Did students care? Heck no. Do I think it had any impact on student achievement? …
I didn’t have the intention of being a paperless class and I don’t believe that paperless is a goal within itself. Nevertheless, last year, out of necessity, I became a mostly paperless class at the college because I had no easy access to a copier. As it turned out last year I had it great …
Last week was the first day of my college class. I used my basic: hour of boring syllabus + hour and half of French sequence, but this semester I made some big changes. First, for the syllabus I ditched reading the syllabus (yes, I was guilty of doing that type of beginning of class), for …
This summer at ISTE I won a free copy of “Ditch that Textbook” by Matt Miller. I’d heard about this movement of course, so I was interested in reading the book. After much reflection I’ve decided that I’m not ready to ditch my textbook and here’s why: I want the extra resources. I teach at …
