Thanks to Clay Burell for asking me to consider finishing this entry. As part of our Community Connections work this year we published an anthology of student writing. The anthology included the writing of every member (but one) of the junior class, and each student was asked to revise a piece of writing until their…
Category: Refelections
Thoughts about teaching
Homework – as a mom and a teacher
A huge thanks to Dean Shareski for the del.icio.us bookmark to Alfie Kohn’s September 2006 article for the Phi Delta Kappan about research and homework. I’m an easy teacher; I’m sure that’s what the kids at school say. Mrs. Tabor doesn’t give tests or lots of homework. I do expect students to read about 125…
Reading, today
Today was all about books. Breaking Dawn was released last night at midnight and we bought a copy this morning before noon. Borders had one after our first stop at Barnes & Noble. Emily read as we drove to the Oak Park Library book sale. We were on a mission to help build my niece’s…
Fair Use
Yesterday afternoon I took part in a conversation about what fair use and copyright looks like in the K-12 classroom. I was invited when the head of our upper-school was unable to attend, and because I am the adviser to the yearbook and the newspaper and I teach Journalism and Media Studies, I was asked…
Senioritis
It’s a Friday, and I have the pleasure of teaching two of my classes of seniors: one at 8:10 in the morning,, and one at 1:00 in the afternoon. Both classes are sleepy; the ‘just rolled out of bed’ crowd and the ‘post lunch drowsies’ patrol. The morning class was my journalism class and we…
Living on the Lip of Insanity 