The One Simple Way To Improve Your Classes
In early March my kids and I moved into a new house. We loved the layout and the quiet, wood-filled backyard. Once we moved in, we began personalizing the inside with a few updates and paint. And as soon as we had a nice day outside, I got a can of bright turquoise semi-gloss and painted the front door. For a minute I wondered if this color was a little too much for my neutral neighborhood. But that quickly passed. No more almost driving into our neighbor's driveway for me. The house had been stamped with my personal style. There have been times in my career where I've graded assignments that made me die a little inside. Paper after paper that read almost like duplicates of each other. No variety. No personality. No life. Either the topic hadn't engaged many of my students, they didn't understand it, or it was just bad timing - not the right writing for these kids right now. As I thought about my new house, I thought about how it must feel to ...