Short Story Ideas for Secondary ELA Students
Analyzing short stories in class has so many benefits and covers a plethora of Common Core State Standards to boot. There are really no downsides to adding highly engaging and high quality short stories into your curriculum. Not only do they support literary response and analysis practice, they also help students learn how to analyze a short story in an essay format, both of which are highly tested skills on state exams. Aside from state testing and common core state standards, analyzing short stories is just good teaching. If you are searching for some highly engaging, crowd pleasing stories that won’t make you drop dead from boredom, look no further, teacher friends! The Teaching Distillery has got you covered.
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Organizing Your Classroom Library by Genre
You must be wondering how you’re going to organize all those new books now that you have them! Before delving deep into a Pinterest spiral, let us help you by sharing our tried and true method for organizing our classroom libraries.
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Essential Oils in the Classroom
Not all essential oils are created equal. When shopping for essential oils, try to steer clear of the ones found in aisles of big box stores or Amazon. Instead, look for oils with real concentrated plant extracts in them and very little else. If they are organic, even better. If you don’t want to go on a deep dive through the Google rabbit hole of essential oil shopping, we have done the leg work for you. Below is a list of some of our favorite essential oils, essential oil blends, and brands.
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Easy and Healthy Snack Ideas to Buy and Try for Busy Teachers
Read on to learn about our healthy, go-to snacks, that get us through the work day.
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Classroom Rules
Creating classroom rules is always a personal choice among teachers. Some teachers like their classroom rules to be designed by students. Other teachers like rules to be about classroom procedures and standards of behavior. Here are a list of ideas for you to consider:
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How to Build Your Classroom Library
Here at The Teaching Distillery, we have a few tricks up our sleeves to get your empty book shelves filled in no time.
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The Best Teacher Lesson Plan Book for Middle and High School
We here at TTD are huge fans of staying organized throughout the school year. We have definitely gone through our fair share of teacher planner brands and styles throughout the years. We think we have finally found one that we feel is pretty darn close to perfect. We have all the heart eyes for the Ban.do brand large 17-month planners.
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Creativity Problems
We don’t know about you, but we are starting to see a major decline in our students collective ability to be creative. We are trying to rack our brains as to why. Is it because of technology, the Common Core State Standards, lack of unstructured play time? Maybe all of the above.
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Welcome to the Teaching Distillery!
Can you believe how quickly summer flew by? Now it’s the start of another school year and first impressions are so important. Here are some ideas that we do on the first day of school to make sure to set the year off on the right note.
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