Any teacher or parent of adolescents will tell you, kids love to argue! With some effort, you can harness this natural inclination in your classroom as a way to improve…
Published February 16, 2017 by Sheldon Soper
Published February 9, 2017 by Sheldon Soper
As long as there have been literature courses taught in schools, there have been students looking for short-cuts to avoid long reading assignments. One of the most well-known of these…
Read More Cliffs Notes and Book Summaries – Not Just for Cheaters!
Published January 5, 2017 by Sheldon Soper
As a social studies teacher in the Common Core era, my curricular responsibilities have gradually shifted away from historical material and more towards the realm of teaching strategies for reading…
Published December 16, 2016 by Sheldon Soper
Technology has made a lot of the tried-and-true educational mainstays irrelevant to today’s student: the calculator defeated the abacus and the internet put most encyclopedia salesmen out of business. These…