May I Help You With Some Resources for This Month?

Well, it happened. May snuck up on me and here we are. It was amusing to wake up to some Twitter drama about Teacher Appreciation Week, which is generally the first week of May, but Google has deemed that it doesn’t start until next week. Supposedly, whoever actually decides these things decided TAW needs to … Read more

7 Ways to Request Feedback from Students about Your Class

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Getting #student feedback can be meaningful and help you to grow as a #teacher. Here are some ways to do it.

Odds and Ends for Wrapping up the School Year

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Here are some out-of-the-box ways to end your #School year that are engaging and fun.

Inspiration for Graduates

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This is actually a reblog of a reblog! No matter what happens, graduation season rolls around every year. I always liked to send my students off by loading them up with as many memories and inspirational motivation as possible, so here are some of my favorites. As graduation season rolls around once again, I thought … Read more

Manifestos, Dream Teams, And More

Rounding out this week’s collection of suggestions for things to do at the end of the school year, I have some that I did with my 5th graders over the years. In our district, 5th grade was the final year of elementary school, and some of the students in my gifted and talented class had … Read more

Whatzit Tic-Tac-Toe for Reflection

UPDATE 5/10/2022: For more End-of-Year activities, visit this post from 2022. You can also see the questions I used for Whatzit Tic-Tac-Toe during our reflection by going to #5 in the feedback suggestions on this post. To continue this week’s theme of year-end activities to use with students, I want to remind you of this … Read more