Month: September 2019
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Feedback 2.0: Using Digital Resources to Give Better Feedback, Faster
I am a luddite in so many ways. I don’t own an e-reader, I prefer vinyl to my Alexa, and I look forward to the times where I can hike or travel far enough away for my phone to get no reception. This tendency sometimes follows me into my classroom as well, as I find…
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September is For Stories
Last week I was in need of some inspiration to start the school year, and so I picked up Linda Christensen’s Teaching for Joy and Justice, one of my go-tos for centering myself and finding inspiration. Teaching for Joy and Justice was the first book that helped me peer beyond the old orthodoxies of the…
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Five Ways to Spend Less Time With Papers This Year (Without Sacrificing Your Impact)
Last week I tweeted out a simple question in preparation for this post: How many students do you have on your student load for ’19-’20? I tweeted this because while teachers struggling under massive student and paper loads is a pretty well-documented problem (the very first English Journal from 1912 opens with a discussion of…
Matthew M. Johnson 