by Sarah Brown Wessling | Mar 15, 2018 | Be Mindful, For Your Classroom
This lesson is part of my “From the Archives” series: 20 lessons in 20 weeks from 20 years of teaching. Enjoy! Context & History I originally taught this lesson in my first year of teaching to 10th grade students. As part of a longer investigation into a “Teaching...
by Sarah Brown Wessling | Mar 5, 2018 | Be Mindful, For Your Classroom
This lesson is part of my “From the Archives” series: 20 lessons in 20 weeks from 20 years of teaching. Enjoy! Context & History I first taught this lesson when I interviewed for my first teaching job. (I know. Who teaches a lesson they’ve never taught before on a...
by Sarah Brown Wessling | Mar 4, 2018 | Be Inspired, Inspiration
Recently, I found myself in an impassioned conversation with a teacher who kept asking, “How do we get teachers, especially secondary teachers, to believe they have to teach the whole student, not just their content?” For well over an hour we sat and talked, trying to...
by Sarah Brown Wessling | Feb 28, 2018 | Be Bold, For Your Classroom
the ASK: I noticed that in our writing and in our conversations, we were struggling to call on transitions. I wondered how we could practice these in a way that didn’t feel like an isolated lesson. the TRY: First thing on a Monday morning, I asked students to all...
by Sarah Brown Wessling | Feb 28, 2018 | Be Bold, For Your Classroom
the ASK: I’m constantly struggling with ways to help students give more authentic feedback to each other, whether it’s formal or informal. So, I thought about universal sentence stems that could help jumpstart their conversations. the TRY: I actually first tried these...
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