GCF stands for Goodwill Community Foundation and through their Learn Free website they share over 125 tutorials divided into sections Technology Basics, Living in the Online World, Microsoft Office, Essential Skills, and Work and Career. These are all worth exploring and the site is a useful toolkit whenever you need to brush up on information yourself, as well as a tool for students to use whenever they need more information. Continue reading All about Email
“So I’m there on the beach with my friend Ben when we notice a taco cart up the road. Ben wants to walk straight over, but I’m thinking we walk a lot slower in the sand than we do on the street. So I say we walk straight to the street and then down the street to the cart. So we went our separate ways…” Thus begins the first Three-Act math task I ever experienced, courtesy of Dan Meyer.
Continue reading Inspiring Student Curiosity (or What’s “Real” about Real-world Math?)
Do you need information about grammatical rules or ideas about how to teach persuasive writing? This site has free information and lesson plans for everything that your students need to know to be successful on the HSE test. Continue reading Free Writing Lessons and Resources at Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Research tells us that writing instruction is more effective when we use rubrics as a teaching tool and a tool for assessment. Students who have the goal of passing the HSE exam should know the Essay Scoring Rubrics well and will benefit from using them in self-assessment and to “score” exemplar essays and/or peers’ writing.
Continue reading Use Rubrics to Promote Thinking and Learning
Sometimes the most difficult struggle for our students is actually putting pen to paper and generating text. They are unsure of how to start and how to develop their ideas and sometimes their frustration causes them to quit before they start. Continue reading Use Writing Frames to Support Writing Informational Texts