contributorMichele Dunaway Teachers at WorkA column about teachingThe Problem with Punctuation: Some Classroom Findings March 14, 2014 By Michele Dunaway
In a previous column, "The Problem with Punctuation," I told you I'd report back my findings on teaching grammar and punctuation a little differently. Now I have some findings and thoughts I can share.
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Article Topics:Teachers at WorkA column about teachingSmall Things That Change Lives: How Teachers Make a Difference November 21, 2013 By Michele Dunaway
Every day, teachers make a difference. In this time when teachers are seen as incompetent and lazy, and when we are being blamed for societal ills and failing students and schools, I wanted to provide some positive affirmation, something beyond that bumper sticker cliché of "If You Can Read This, Thank a Teacher." After all, teaching goes beyond the classroom, beyond our instruction, and beyond the love of words.
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Teachers at WorkA column about teachingThe Problem with Punctuation September 17, 2013 By Michele Dunaway
I have to admit that two of the biggest areas in which I struggle as a teacher are instructing grammar and punctuation. Long ago, I didn't seem so frustrated, but like cursive handwriting, grammar and punctuation have become lost in the shuffle.
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Article Topics:Teachers at WorkA column about teachingWriting Prompts for Students: How to Strike the Right Balance June 4, 2013 By Michele Dunaway
How much is too much? Currently a commercial for AT&T is asking if more is better, and, of course, the little kids sitting in the circle clamor that more is definitely better. In the world of writing prompts, though, more or less becomes one of those debatable things. Be too specific, and a teacher may actually be limiting student creativity. Yet, being too vague might frazzle kids completely.
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Teachers at WorkA column about teachingSchools Are More Than a Test January 24, 2013 By Michele Dunaway
After a trying few weeks, English teacher Michele Dunaway has arrived at some insights about what kids learn in school: "Here are the things schools teach, the things schools and teachers do that can never be addressed or assessed by fill-in-the-bubbles."
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Teachers at WorkA column about teachingOne Teacher's New Year's Resolutions January 9, 2013 By Michele Dunaway
Michele Dunaway teaches English and journalism at Francis Howell High School in St. Charles, Missouri (when she's not writing best-selling romance novels). As 2012 begins, she's been thinking about some New Year's resolutions for the classroom. Here she shares seven of them.
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Teachers at WorkA column about teachingClass Discussions That Work December 18, 2012 By Michele Dunaway
Okay, I'll commit educational blasphemy. I'm not a fan of whole-class/large-group discussions. I don't care what you name them (one of the most common monikers is Socratic seminars), but get more than 10 people in a group and it becomes a license to zone out.
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