contributorMichele Dunaway
Michele Dunaway is an award-winning English and journalism teacher who, in addition to teaching English III, advises the student newspaper, yearbook and news website at Francis Howell High School in St. Charles, MO. In 2009, the Journalism Education Association awarded Michele with its Medal of Merit. She has received recognition as a Distinguished Yearbook Adviser in the H.L. Hall Yearbook Adviser of the Year competition and was named a Special Recognition Newspaper Adviser by the Dow Jones News Fund. She also practices what she teaches by authoring professional journal articles and writing novels.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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Article Topics:Teachers at WorkA column about teachingYou've Got Mail: The Art of the Thank You December 4, 2012 By Michele Dunaway
In September, my younger child turned 16. The day before her birthday, I opened the mailbox and pulled out a blue envelope. Her paternal grandparents had sent her a card. Her face lit up, and not just because there was a check inside. She'd gotten mail.
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Teachers at WorkA column about teachingStudents and the Art of E-Mail September 4, 2012 By Michele DunawayHi. What did i miss in class today. i want to keep up in english I get a lot of e-mails. My favorites are the ones that come in from students who clearly like to prove to me how little they are using the skills I'm teaching. Thus, the group of teachers with whom I work decided to address the art of writing e-mail. Continue reading... |
