Home, Sweet Home

Recently my principal praised my efforts to increase achievement and integrate technology into the classroom.  First, I hate being publicly praised.  It makes me feel like the odd man out, like I’m doing something wrong in the eyes of the other teachers.  Second, what I’m doing in my classroom (blogging) is something I’m surprised other [...]

As a high school student, I sat in a typical English classroom.  Most of my teachers lectured, showed transparencies on the projector, assigned papers, and analyzed novels.  We read and read and read.  We learned a little bit of grammar.  We completed the (now becoming arachaic) research project on an author of choice complete with [...]