by upnorthlearning | Apr 25, 2014 | Literacy, Teaching Strategies, Writing
How the paperless classroom goes beyond teacher convenience This post was featured on the Chippewa River Writing Project’s Teachers as Writers Blog this week. Check out the blog for other great posts from CRWP teachers. This is the first in a series of posts...
by upnorthlearning | Apr 19, 2014 | Teaching, Team-Based learning, Thinking
Thursday was a good day! Scratch that – pun intended, as you will see in a moment. Thursday was a great day! Recently, on the PsychTeacher Listserv that I participate in, there was a thread about Team-Based Learning. I was not familiar with this college-level...
by upnorthlearning | Oct 11, 2013 | Literacy, Teaching
Literacy has been on my mind again lately. It should be. I’m an English teacher, after all. What I have really been thinking about, though, is the rapid change in what it means to be literate for the future. Some people wonder whether books will die in an era of...
by upnorthlearning | Jul 16, 2013 | Teaching
(This was a piece that I wrote during the Chippewa River Writing Project summer institute.) _________________________________________ Molly finished ringing up my order and placed my produce into a bag. “That’ll be $16.34,” she said, and then barely taking a breath,...
by upnorthlearning | May 28, 2013 | Teaching
In the fall, I saw this video from Jim Burke about using the voice memo app on an iPhone to provide audio feedback to students during the writing process. It’s not exaggeration to say that the technique Jim explained changed my entire paradigm about feedback and...
by upnorthlearning | Mar 29, 2013 | Teaching
Every teacher must at some point question staying with the profession. My moment came last fall. Oddly, this was not a case of my asking whether I still enjoyed the job; I do without a doubt. Recent changes, though, in my state and across the nation have made it...
