Simply Novel Blog - Teaching Tips and Ideas for Teachers

New Year, New Me. Right? I mean, all the intentions are there to exercise more, lose those extra pounds, read more, budget better, and the list can...

Over the years, I have gone back and forth about the necessity of review days. Sometimes they have felt like a cop-out or a waste of time, and some...

At this point in the semester, I am simultaneously exhausted and invigorated. I can feel the same sentiments coming from my virtual and school-sit...

I always seem to have students who believe that effective writing is verbose. If they exceed the page minimum, they expect a high grade. These stud...

Let’s talk argumentation and debates!  I love it. I love all of it. I love the serious relevant debates because there is so much information out th...

Teaching is complicated and sometimes downright impossible. There are countless viral stories from teachers about why they quit. I’m not too proud ...

Movie days in the classroom tend to have a bad reputation for being a waste of time or a teacher cop-out.  Sure, there are a few bad apple teachers...

Since 2020, the use of technology in the classroom has sky-rocketed. With school shut-downs, teachers were thrown into all sorts of overwhelming si...

Some days during the school year, teaching high school feels a little like herding cats. For me, those days include Valentine’s Day, Friday before ...

Is there really such a thing? Or is it an excuse we created to get out of doing something we don’t want to do? I remember hearing countless times f...

It is the spooky Halloween season! What better time to do some spooky Halloween activities with your students? We all know that around this time of...

Parent (Guardian) and teacher partnership are essential aspects of student success. While some parents have time to be very involved and others have significantly less time and/or resources to dedicate to the classroom or students; parents are an essential part of the education equation.