Sometimes, just when you need it, you get a little boost. Maybe it’s a class that goes really well, where even the sleepiest student is suddenly engaged, or maybe it’s an hour spent with a good friend that leaves you feel content and understood.
Sometimes, it’s seeing weeks of work and time and effort pay off.
Today, on the Independent Teacher website, you can find a really interesting special issue on reading, with articles on teaching, reading and writing from a variety of perspectives. Independent Teacher is a journal I’ve enjoyed since I started teaching at an independent school, and I’ve always found food for thought and inspiration in their pages.
In that special issue, you can also find an article co-authored by yours truly, concerning digital scaffolding in several projects from the past two years of my teaching. In this article, I talk about a project called “Facebooking Gatsby,” which went well in my classes and is the subject of my most popular post ever, as well as a project my juniors did with sonnets and Voicethread. I was really pleased with how the projects went, and it’s my first teaching-related publication, so I’m thrilled about that as well.
So today, after some darker days, I got my boost. I hope you will too, if you are in need of one.
Congratulations!
Thank you so much!
I’m so sorry to hear about darker days, my dear friend, but so glad we pushed each other to do this. I am feeling sparkly inside as well.
Did you ever hear that story about Shirley Temple? That before she went on set for any of her movies, her mother would say, “Sparkle, Shirley, sparkle!” No need for that directive for me today, but the story always makes me laugh.
I love the words and sayings from women of that generation. My grandmother always used to say to me, “Never hide your light under a bushel.”
Great article, Jackie! I appreciate the link to Independent Teacher, a journal I hadn’t known and have now subscribed to, and also the information about the “Zone of Proximal Development,” something I’ve been working on for years but never had a name for! (And I’ll now be using that phrase in the teaching article that is my project as soon as school ends, on my dangerous word project.) And I’ve sent a link to your article to my department and our technology specialist. So all in all, many thanks, and congratulations!
I have liked Independent Teacher for a few years now, and I think there is a lot of value to be found in their issues, so I think you will like it too! I’m excited to see your “dangerous words” article when it’s been published, so keep me posted. Thanks also for sending it around–hope everyone enjoys it!
Congratulations on being published!
Thanks for sharing the links…I, too, have now subscribed.
We just finished Gatsby…would love to implement your ideas into that unit next time! Very cool.
Thanks so much Tammy– let me know if you want me to send you any documents from the assignments I did with Gatsby. I think you’ll enjoy IT!
Yes! Please share…that would be great!
Congratulations! How cool!
Thanks so much!
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