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Teaching the Electoral College

Regardless of the age of your students, teaching about the election is always an important topic. For younger students, they may host their own election nominating a class president while learning in an age-appropriate way who is running to be the next United States President. As students get older, many become more interested in learning who the candidates are and how an election is run. One vital topic to include during a presidential unit involves the electoral college.

Tips & Tricks for Online Learning!

The best tip/trick I know is to choose 2 or 3 new things (nothing more) and learn those. Don’t try to do everything all at one time. Also: It’s not impossible, it’s just new. Be mindful of not overwhelming students with technology tools!

Teaching Social Justice in Upper Elementary School

A common goal of teachers is to develop lessons that students not only enjoy but remember in future years. A lesson that students remember throughout

Teaching Debate in High School

“F. Scott Fitzgerald” once said, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time

Socrative: An engaging tool for interactive learning

What is Socrative program? Socrative is a determinative assessment tool that helps teachers and learners to evaluate understanding and progress in real-time in class through the

My favorite Amazon products for back to school

These are my favorite products from Amazon for heading back to school! To help get your school year off to a great start, we’ve rounded

First-year history teacher tips

Your first year as a history teacher is the hardest year of your life! You want to be the perfect teacher, perfect role model, and

Teacher Organization for your Sanity

Teacher organization is an essential skill in education. I consider myself a highly organized person, possibly due to my mother, yet many students and teachers

AP Government Teacher Training

Accelerate your teaching to help your students pass the AP Government test with this AP government teacher training! The course will cover best practices for

Constitution Center Resources

National Constitution Center resources (NCC) hosts programs that I think you would like for your school for remote learning. Since COVID-19 school closures began, the

Tips to zoom with students

No matter how far you are from the classroom, you can still learn and thrive using Zoom with students to connect outside of the classroom.

How I use Padlet with students?

Padlet is an application to create an online post-it note- bulletin board that you can use to display information and collaborate together for any topic.