** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to bring an engaging, hands-on poetry session to your campus ** I have three poems that I absolutely love introducing to students. One of those poems is Harlem by Langston Hughes. I love it because it is fun to read out loud and the students […]
Social Studies
Engaging Learners with Interdisciplinary Teaching
As educators, we are constantly hearing how important it is to make our curriculum relevant to students, and that the students need to have ownership and find value in their learning. It seems to me that the obvious solution is to actively teach more social studies. While social studies is written in every elementary curriculum, […]
Screencasting in the Classroom
With so much buzz around flipped classrooms, meeting individualized needs, and including parents as partners, why not screencast? Screencasting, recording the action that takes place on the computer screen with sound, is an easy way to accomplish all those goals. Teachers can quickly create screencasts that can be viewed at home (with or without internet […]
The Necessity of Historical Pictures
A teaching moment that I will never forget is back in 2008 teaching United States History to fifth graders. We were on our second day of Roanoke. The kids were highly engaged and we were deep in discussion for two full days. By the end of the second day we were beginning to think about […]