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8 Outstanding Videos to Spark Discussion about Neurodiversity with Students

by Amanda | Feb 10, 2023 | Differentiation, Equity, Neurodiversity, New Style Blog Post, New Style Podcast, Social Justice, Support for Struggling Readers, Support for Struggling Writers

The neurodiversity movement is happening right now. It’s exciting, invigorating, and gaining more and more momentum every day. But, what is the neurodiversity movement? Why do students need to know about it? How can we introduce students to the complex and sometimes...

11 Ways Chat GPT Can Help You Teach Argumentative Writing

by Amanda | Jan 27, 2023 | Argumentative Writing, Podcast, Support for Struggling Writers, Technology, Writing Units

Amanda Write Now · 66. 11 Ways ChatGPT Can Help You Teach Argumentative Writing It’s about time for teachers to start their opinion, persuasive, or argumentative writing units (depending on the grade you teach). Most teachers realize that sample sentences and...

My Best Ideas to Prevent Cheating with Chat GPT + How to Handle Plagiarism Suspects

by Amanda | Jan 13, 2023 | Assessment, Podcast, Support for Struggling Writers, Technology

Share Tweet Pin It Now that students have easy access to artificial intelligence chatbots like Chat GPT, teachers are pondering how to prevent students from using these tools to do their work for them. Cheating seems to be easier than ever these days....

7 Ways Chat GPT Will Impact Education Positively (2023)

by Amanda | Jan 6, 2023 | Assessment, Equity, Make Writing Fun, Podcast, Support for Struggling Writers, Technology

In the last few weeks I’ve been playing with, talking to teacher friends, reading articles, and thinking about one thing… Chat GPT. I learned about this new AI tool in early December through a Facebook Group post that had 100+comments. The comments scared...

28 Essential Strategies to Support Struggling Writers in the Secondary Classroom

by Amanda | Oct 19, 2022 | Equity, Make Writing Fun, Podcast, Social Justice, Support for Struggling Writers, Writing Independence

Share Tweet Pin It Every classroom has struggling writers. There are many reasons young writers struggle during our writing units. They may feel overwhelmed, be uninterested, have writing skill deficits because of past experiences with writing,...

The Story of a Teacher Author’s Identity Crisis

by Amanda | Jan 8, 2022 | Podcast, Secondary Teachers, Social Justice, Support for Struggling Writers

I’ve learned and changed tremendously since the events of 2020-2021, you might even call what’s happened an identity crisis…I want to share this story here to make sense of everything for myself but also because I know there are many teachers out there...

6 Methods to Support Struggling Writers

by Amanda | Jul 31, 2021 | Secondary Teachers, Support for Struggling Writers

751SharesShare Tweet Pin It Writing is such a critical subject to master. Students who have confidence and skills as writers have the potential to go far in education and life. But, writing is one of the toughest subjects to teach and one of the...

Teach Argumentative Writing Through Video

by Amanda | Feb 2, 2017 | Argumentative Writing, Make Writing Fun, Mini Lessons, Podcast, Support for Struggling Writers, Videos

Students are glued to their media…YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat are the top apps used by secondary kids. As educators our job is to engage our students in the process of learning and what better way is there to engage than through video?!?! In this...

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