Month: May 2020
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Using Storytelling to Keep Students Engaged in the Last Month of School
T.S. Eliot states in The Wasteland that “April is the cruelest month.” He is close, but he misses the mark by a month, at least in my opinion. In normal years, I find May to be the cruelest month by a fair margin, at least when it comes to my teaching life. The problem is…
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Best Practices for Teaching When One Has Little Time and Even Less Bandwidth
Teaching in normal times is not a profession that lends itself to balance. A study by the Gates Foundation and Scholastic found that teachers on across the country work over 53 hours a week on average, and it seems that every year the number of tasks, students, and papers grows larger and larger. And even…
Matthew M. Johnson 