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Monday Mapping: Movies for Test Prep and Review… Really?

Posted on April 20, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

When people talk about movies being shown in classes, I usually cringe. My first thoughts go to those teachers who sit at their desks all year, never actually teaching, and only showing movies to inform their students. Sadly, those types...Read More

Monday Mapping: Test Prep – Do I Have To?

Posted on April 13, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Once Spring Break is over, many administrators are forced by their district leaders to start encouraging their teachers to prep for testing. It's a vicious cycle, but ends with your principal peeking into your classroom each day to see how...Read More

Monday Mapping: National Poetry Month

Posted on April 6, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

"I think that I shall never see/ A poem as lovely as a tree..." In my 7th grade English class, I had to memorize the classic poem by Joyce Kilmer. Honestly, the first two lines are the only I can...Read More

Monday Mapping: Defining Interactive Notebooks

Posted on March 9, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

While I have used an Interactive Notebook structure in my classes for over fifteen years, the IN method has become all the rage in every subject area over the past few years. Teachers love to provide inserts to flip, quick...Read More

Monday Mapping: The Most Important Lesson

Posted on March 2, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

I've taught in a few schools over my academic career, and now most of my students have grown up and moved on into adulthood. Still, when I run into my former students, one conversation always takes place - the most...Read More

Monday Mapping: Teaching Truth & Emotion

Posted on February 23, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

For almost a decade, I taught in a Social Studies Department where war was nothing more than a series of battles fought in an open battlefield, and where the costs were only monetary in the eyes of the instructors. My...Read More

Monday Mapping: Cause and Effect in the History Classroom

Posted on February 16, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Students often see historic occurrences as isolated events in time, not understanding that one causes the other and that one causes the next. In both my World and U.S. History courses in mid February, I would be in the early...Read More

Monday Mapping: The Importance of Creativity

Posted on February 9, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Not all students learn in the same way. We've heard this over and over, yet we seldom here that not all students can present their knowledge in the same way, which is just as true. Despite this fact, assessments have...Read More

Monday Mapping: A New Reading Guide with a Twist

Posted on February 2, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Helping students get the most from reading texts is every teacher's goal, but often a great challenge. There are a number of reading tools, graphic organizers, and anticipation guides out there, but it's important to find what will work best...Read More

Monday Mapping: Planning the Previews

Posted on January 26, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

The older I get, the less I am interested in reading things I do not consider relevant to my life. I LOVE reading, but I do not like wasting my time, and much of what is produced these days is...Read More