My bachelor’s degree is in Elementary Education, and I spent six years in PreK to 4th-grade classrooms. I worked in a preschool during high school and college, and I thought for sure I’d be an elementary teacher. However, as the story goes, I did not become an elementary teacher. That doesn’t mean some teaching techniques…
Category: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Teaching in an Online Environment: A Sample Schedule
Teaching in an Online Environment: A Sample Schedule to help simplify and organize your planning.
Learning More About What You Teach and Who You are Teaching
As a National Board Certified teacher, I am constantly reflecting on the Five Core Propositions, especially the second: Teachers Know the Subjects They Teach and How To Teach Those Subjects. As we moved through the last 3 months, this has been a focal point for me. If you are not aware, I do not have…
3 Project Ideas For After the AP Exam
I woke up this morning and didn’t really know what to do with myself. That’s been the six years of the morning after the AP test feeling. In our district, movies are not the preferred use of class time over 20 minutes. Here are a few ideas for how to spend the time after the…
Teaching AP Government in a Shortened Semester- Week 3 of Remote Teaching, Defendant’s Rights and Privacy
Another week of remote learning down and I’m starting to realize that I need to slow down and not try to do everything at once. There are a lot of great resources out there, but don’t drown in the pool of information. Here is our week as posted in our Google Classroom : Here is…
Teaching AP Government in a Shortened Semester- Week 2 of Remote Learning with Civil Liberties
Well, I think the dust has settled long enough for me to see the finish line. After a two-week spring break, a week of teacher work and lots of meetings, and last week getting all the students on the same page, I’m ready for content. Oh, and the webinar from Trevor Packard with our new…
