A Teacher's Daze

P icking up where I left off in my last blog, I am excited to share a method I used this past year to help prepare my 6th grade ELA students to write a “timed” essay on our state’s standardized test.   “H.O.T .   T.E.E.  x’s 2” I u sed this method with my students to help them prepare for the TIMED essay portion of the state writing test. I am working on a slide show that will soon be available on TPT.  I will post when it is available.  The slide show gives a basic over-view to help students understand how learning this acronym can save valuable time, as well as increase their test performance.  Which grades benefit from using   “H.O.T .   T.E.E.  x’s 2.” ? Elementary, middle or high school students who are required to write a TIMED essay can use some parts, if not all of this method.  I know this is true because I have taught English from 6th to the 12th grade, for the past 28 years.  20 years of my teaching has been in secondar...

                                My Teacher's Space Motto:   "KEEP CALM and TEACH ON"                                                   "Get ready, get set....." Teachers spend weeks before school starts preparing because when the bell sounds and students start pouring into the classroom, there is no time to "get ready."  It's full speed ahead!     After spending the last two weeks of summer vacation, walking up and down two flights of stairs, carrying armloads of school supplies and decorations, as well as balancing a head full of ideas collected from Pinterest and teacher blogs over the summer, I'm certain it isn't a dream because surely I would have awakened by now, right? Getting back into the everyday routine of "back to school" is not only h...