Is unstructured (or relatively unstructured) play time valuable for children in schools? This is a topic I don’t spend a lot of time dealing with as a high school teacher, but as a parent it is certainly a large concern of mine. In a blog post featuring a video by Sir Ken Robinson ( https://rethinkingchildhood.com/2016/04/05/sir-ken-robinson-outdoor-play-dirt-is-good/ …
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Technology Integration
I have a love/hate relationship with technology in the classroom. Over the course of my six year career the love side has grown, and the hate side has gotten smaller with the coming of each new year. From my experience, technology integration breaks down to two major ideas; the benefits and tools that technology in …
Homework in Schools
I teach in an elective area that rarely allows students the opportunity to practice skills at home because they are hands on skills that require a lot of equipment and safety supervision. That does however still leave me lots of options for assigning homework outside of hands on skills; vocabulary practice, content specific reading, online …
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