Elementary Education | Marginalia

Student work is regularly displayed in the hallways at most schools these days, so much so that we spend a bit of time in graduate sch..

My formal unit is almost complete. My students have reflected on their writing, rewritten one selected work, reviewed it with a friend..

Integration of subject matter is a teaching goal that’s talked about a lot both in the field and at Columbia. It’s most frequently dis..

I haven’t really shared much of my formal unit yet, but I’m very proud of it and hope to share the summative assessment once the stude..

Student teachers live and die by their planners. We plot out and pinpoint every new lesson we want to write, where we want that lesson..

Occasionally I hold the distinction of being the kind of person who sees a problem and tries their best to fix it. This is not somethi..

This post shares one of the most in-depth lesson plans I’ve ever created. I actually needed to cut down the language quite a bit to ma..

I am halfway through student teaching. Today was the first day that I took the majority of control of the classroom—I was the primar..

I am in an extremely lucky position where the school I am working at has a full-time Drama teacher. It also happens that my students s..