- what state you are in: I am in Illinois! Home of the Cubbies! :)
- your current teaching position: I teach 8th grade Language Arts primarily, and this year I will also be teaching a section of 7th grade Language Arts. I also teach the gifted classes.
- your teaching experience: This is my sixth year teaching at my school. I also taught two years of ELL and began at my school teaching an Exploratory class, Drama, for two years.
- when you started blogging: I have been blogging on and off for awhile, but really got back into it this summer!
- share a blogging tip / blogging resource: Always make sure you have a place for people to follow your blog. I love being able to hit the Google connect button and see everything in my reader and I'm bummed out when blogs I like don't have it.
I decided that before I can start posting about what I'm doing this year, I needed to share some of my favorite strategies from last year that went really well with the students. I was completely inspired by Kelly Gallagher after reading devouring all of his books at the beginning of the school year! I had the opportunity to go to a Kelly Gallagher workshop at Judson this spring, and it was absolutely amazing! He was so nice when I went up to him (I was terrified and starstruck), and even wrote "You're Welcome" on this piece of paper, because my students actually asked me to THANK HIM for changing the way we read novels in class. Students + asked me + to say thank you to an author + about school stuff = UTOPIA! Here are some of my abbreviated notes from the day: His TOP Points: Kids should write 4X more than you can physically grade Students suffer from word poverty. Must get students reading more in order to be exposed to vocabulary. We ne
Thanks for coming by! I am now following you as well :) Good luck to you, too!
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I'm so happy to have you as a follower! I will definitely check out your site in a bit! :) Thanks for the kind words about middle school, I actually feel the same way about elementary, it would scare me to have to plan every single subject! I have broken up a few fights, and it's pretty scary, especially when you are a shortie like me! Thanks for stopping by! :)
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I will for sure! I love blog hops for this reason, you get to meet so many great people! :) Thanks for joining!
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Brigid's Daily Lesson Log
Heading over there now! Thanks for visiting :)
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