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rELAxing with Coffee: The Teachers' Guide to Sanity One Cup of Coffee at a Time!
By Rebecca Decker, Bridget Petrulla, and Joseph StefanelliEducation
rELAxing with Coffee: The Teachers' Guide to Sanity One Cup of Coffee at a Time! episodes
- Making The First Day Count
We are back (sorry for the year break)! It's Sept and we need to get started! Rebecca and Joe have some great first-day activities (that work any day)!
17 min - June Is Bustin' Out All Over: Quick, One-Day Lessons That Get Us Through June!
Rebecca and Joe share some tried and true lessons and activities that work for those end-of-year days when everyone is itching for summer to start!
Solve Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/42siLfeONMloB9InX8eVT9?si=aae56894163e4f3c
Name 5 Activity: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1izf7tEXDijVNqiuXkaXDSo-284ppi_a5?usp=sharing
TedTalk Riddles: https://youtu.be/7yDmGnA8Hw0
Futureme.org
19 min - Coffee and a Movie: Bridget and Joe discuss 1989's Dead Poets Society
Bridget and Joe are enjoying a cup of java and discussing a favorite among many educators, Dead Poet's Society, starring Robin Williams & Ethan Hawke. Is this movie still relevant? Is William's Mr. Keating a teacher we should be emulating? What can we, as teachers, learn from this movie?
17 min - Argue Your Way Into Good Writing
Rebecca and Joe talk about tried and true methods of helping kids recognize good arguments!
Tools to check out:
https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-ethicist
https://www.procon.org/
100 Student Voices: https://www.amazon.com/shop/rebeccadecker/list/LZJTJGUF5W47?ref_=aipsflist_aipsfrebeccadecker
20 min - Summative Assessments You and Your Students Won't Hate!
Rebecca and Joe discuss getting rid of the 50-question multiple choice test and what alternatives there are for summative assessments!
24 min - Gatsby: Is he "Great" in the High School Classroom?
Bridget and Joe, both admirers of Fitzgerald's masterpiece, discuss whether or not The Great Gatsby still belongs in the classroom!
21 min - Mentor Text Talk - John Green's The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Over a delicious cup of java, Bridget and Rebecca talk mentor texts and how to utilize John Green's book of essays in your ELA classroom, including Creative Writing, Memoirs, and College Essays!
16 min - Using Book Clubs for your Science Fiction/Dystopian Unit
Rebecca and Joe, while drinking their coffee, head to social media for teacher questions. The result: a discussion about book clubs, science fiction, and society at large!
16 min - How Do You Grade Choice Reading?
Joe and Rebecca are huge fans and advocates for choice reading. So how do they assess it?
12 min - Book Talk: The Measure by Nikki Erlick
Rebecca and Joe just finished reading The Measure by Nikki Erlick! They can't get over this book! But is it good for students?
13 min
About rELAxing with Coffee: The Teachers' Guide to Sanity One Cup of Coffee at a Time!
From the publisher's feed
Rebecca Decker, Bridget Petrulla, and Joseph Stefanelli have worked together for 18 years as English Language Arts teachers! When not in the classroom, they spend way too much time thinking about the classroom: books, Choice Reading, lessons, professional development, writing exercises, and whatever the newest concepts are for the classroom!
Join them as they drink a cup of coffee while they chat, rant, make you laugh, and help teachers, parents, and students with various concepts and situations inside and outside the classroom!
Grab your favorite caffeinated beverage and enjoy!