We all know what we expect students to know when they enter our classroom, but do we know what the next teacher expects? Carol discusses what students should know in language arts, especially grammar and writing skills, at...

This talk explores the effects of confessed and unconfessed sin on the four main characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter: Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and Pearl Prynne. Confessed sin does not...

The metonymic adage “the pen is mightier than the sword” is rarely true without some purposeful effort. How can we make our writing and the writing of our students more effective? This session will be geared toward middle school...

Geared toward middle school and high school, this session examines reasons for and methods of teaching Pilgrim’s Progress.

I have probably used this close to 20 years now. One of the things that I've used in class is "Recognizing Verb Tense." They need to already be able to identify past, present, and future tense. So students need to know that. I...

We maintain long-term enthusiasm in our classroom by seeing teaching as a ministry, not just a job. When we choose to focus on serving our students rather than on what we can get out of teaching, our lives will be rich and...

Cosette in Les Miserables from Wikimedia Commons On a school administrators' email group, Darrell Hershberger posed this question: What makes literature worthwhile? We're working on coming to an answer to this question that will...

In this talk, Carol discusses the killers of enthusiasm and investigates some of the cures for an enthusiasm deficiency. Is this deficiency preventable and reparative?