Teachers: What’s Your Motto in the Classroom? (Edutopia blog)

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 7 | February 23, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]

Elena Aguilar says, “Teachers make thousands of decisions each day, say the experts, as well as those of us who have been in the classroom. Making decisions can feel exhausting and draining, or efficient and effortless. Decisions are easier if we have clear guiding principles or ideals as we are making them. When these don’t exist or we haven’t articulated them, our decision-making process can be haphazard.

A motto is a powerful way to encapsulate the principles, values, and ideals which guide us as teachers and from which we make decisions. So teachers, what’s your motto in the classroom?

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The Role of Video Games in the English Classroom (Edutopia blog)

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 6 | February 9, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]

Terry Heick says, “Perhaps more than anything else, the English Language Arts classroom is a place of diversity.

There is diversity of academic expectations for teachers. The ELA Common Core assigns literature and informational reading, writing, speaking/listening and language to what is usually a single “class.” This is a total of five extremely broad topics, each of which could more than stand on its own as a content area.

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