When students are yelling across the room, disrespecting you and each other, and not reacting to gentler consequences, it can be tempting to raise your voice to get their attention. And sometimes, in the moment, screaming feels like the only thing left to try. The problem is that yelling at a loud class usually just
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You don’t need to turn your classroom into a video game to use gamification. If the word gamification makes you picture elaborate classroom economies, complicated point systems, and hours spent designing levels and rewards, good news: you can start much smaller. In fact, you can add a few game elements to your classroom by Monday…without
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Some of the best poetry discussions I’ve ever had with students started with a surprisingly simple question. After many years of running weekly Poetry Friday experiences with my students, I learned that the questions that seemed almost too simple were often the ones that got students talking the most. For example, one Friday I asked
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