Hi! If you have stumbled on to this blog, I assume you are a teacher looking for help teaching high school students or perhaps you are a teacher who can help those of us who struggle! I started this blog because there is a real dearth of strategies and ideas for those of us who teach high school. Now, if you teach younger kids, the strategies abound! Makes me wonder whether no one knows how to teach high school or whether people have just given up.
I am new to teaching--only my second year after a career in writing and editing. I teach in an urban school district where test scores are abysmal and the students simply don't do homework. Students are generally very sweet, but have so many issues and mixed up priorities that teaching is arduous.
I will begin with a rose and a thorn, a good and a bad:
Rose: One of my students, who is on an IEP, has a 94% in Language Arts 10 and completed a research paper.
Thorn: My students' research papers are terrible and we spent 3 weeks on them in class. What to do?
I hope that all of you out there will share your roses and thorns, too. Let's help each other!
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