Presents 13 activities that can occupy teachers' attention during the summer months. (RL)

The strategies employed by a high school teacher to grade a student's paper quickly and the consequences of returning the graded paper to the student within a short time are discussed. Returning the papers quickly have its own benefits such as the students will be getting their feedbacks regularly and they can succeed in the art of writing quickly.

An experienced secondary teacher shares some common misconceptions about literary analysis. The activities, which help the students to practice theory and read drama, poetry and fiction, are described.

High school teacher Emily Sims shares her experiences co-teaching inclusive classes as a first-year teacher. She imparts practical advice for successful co-teaching relationships between the content teacher and the special education teacher, from which both students and teachers can thrive. (Contains 1 figure.)

Many high school teachers have described their favorite non-Shakespearean books that are effective with their students. Reginald Rose's "Twelve Angry Men", Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" and Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" are some of the commonly taught books in high schools, as these books enlighten the students about the connections between…

In this article, the author relates her experience in teaching poetry and how it shapes everything she and her students do in the classroom. As a language arts teacher for students in grades 7 to 12, she discovered poetry to be magical in many ways, for it offers such advantages as, brevity, which allows a quick reading and discussion of a…

Offers tongue-in-cheek rules for being a humorless English teacher. (RL)

Offers advice to teachers who want to lead student travel groups on European tours. (RL)

Tracy Sutherland, a secondary school teacher, gives her opinion of the American public education that keeps changing so often that it finally loses its sight of the overall structure. She has taken George Orwell's book "Animal Farm" as examples in helping students apply the issues from the book in real life.

Brett Vogelsinger, a high school English teacher, describes his experiences of frustrations of test preparation and the excitement of a good story at the same time. The discovering of drama with eight-graders is a good example of how teachers, novice and veterans can create opportunities for deep and meaningful engagement in all kinds of…

The interdisciplinary collaboration is a type of subversive activity that helps the students and teachers to see beyond the traditional subject boundaries. A high school teacher's collaboration with the dance instructor helped students to understand and see Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal Dreams" in a new way.

Reports on the difficulties a teacher had while trying to compose her first poetry assignment at the Bread Loaf School of English. (RL)

A former high school teacher raises pedagogical and ethical questions about teaching and writing with the help of a story of a student. The ways in which the conventions of teaching and writing can be learned are discussed.

This article is part of the "Speaking My Mind" section of the journal that invites readers to speak out about controversial issues relevant to the teaching of English language arts. In this article the author discusses a time when schools had few teachers, lacked curriculum guides, and computers were nonexistent. The author's first…

High school teachers' experiences of teaching their students how to write a proper writing assignment and the people who have influenced their teaching of writing are described.