Tag: Teaching
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Overcoming Teaching Challenges: A Journey Back to High School
The author reflects on returning to high school teaching after years at the college level. They express concern about students’ mental health, shaped by modern challenges like social media. The author shares insights on engaging teaching methods and emphasizes the importance of connecting with students and fostering their spiritual and emotional well-being.
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A Return
The writer reflects on their teaching journey, recalling joy and challenges they faced while teaching different subjects at several institutions. They have returned to teaching religion at Brigham Young University-Idaho and express their enthusiasm and passion for teaching this subject. They also share their love for administrative work and mentoring students, but admit struggles with…
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Teaching Isaiah to High School Freshmen & REPOST: Talks to Study on Studying Religious Literature
I asked the students what they saw and as they started to notice the patterns of color and then what the patterns were, we were able to break it down and see that Isaiah was calling the people out. Helping students unlock Isaiah, but looking at literary styles.
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Working Moms vs Stay-at-home Moms
Hey Mom, whether you stay at home or work part time or full time, we can each learn from each other!! Quit the Mom guilt and let’s enjoy the moments that we have.
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Another Look at Non-Traditional Assessments
If we want to truly see the students engage with the content of our courses (and remember those concepts well into the future), then we may want to take a second look a the power of non-traditional assessments. These creative assessments benefit the learning of the student and help us engage much more richly with the…
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COVID-19. Isolation. Work from home. But with the family. How?
I wrote that first part of the post a few weeks ago, while I was still working thongs out and excited and fresh – ready to tackle the situation. Now, our governor has announced another 2 weeks of lockdown. Our schools have announced that they will not reopen for the end of the semester. The…
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Some Tips on Settings in Zoom.
Here is a link to my video on zoom settings that can help you set up some security measur.es and other features to help with virtual teaching
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First Day Virtual Lesson Plan
To continue my helps for teachers while dealing with this situation (COVID-19 and having to race to turn F2F classes into online courses) I am sharing some helps for that first day with a Remote lesson on a platform like Zoom. So far, so good, the Zoom platform has held up, so we’ve been able…
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An Example of a Robust At Home Lesson
Here are some principles and an example of an at-home lesson. It is meant to help a teacher to use for ideas, etc. while changing classes from F2F to online format because of the current situation with the COVID-19 virus. Please Enjoy, (as well as) like, subscribe, comment, and share!
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At Home Lesson Assignment Example
And so we begin the quarantine… We live in a two-bedroom apartment.
Working on it! 