Fuentes Forest

As I prepped for this week’s lessons in 8th Grade History, I questioned what kind of teacher I really am. My contract says I’m a middle school History teacher but my district values what state tests say about my student’s reading skills far more than what my tests say about their historical knowledge. So the…

All reading can be reduced to Nouns and Verbs. The more nouns and verbs you understand the easier reading becomes. There are obviously other literary and rhetorical devices that make a text engaging but if the purpose of reading is for simple comprehension, then nouns and verbs are the most important things you need. They…

Teaching does not neatly fall within the realm of science, even though so many people wish it to. Teaching comes from knowing your content, students, and the environment in which you are expected to teach. The teacher like a painter assembles the colors and decides how to layer them on the canvas. If the teacher…