Erin Lebacqz

Welcome students! You can download 5 templates/outlines below to keep your essay organized, and watch a video with additional explanation here . Writing an essay means capturing your main point and supporting it with both evidence and examples. But how do you keep it all organized? What comes first, second, third, and last—and how do you keep your reader from getting lost? The solution is often using an outline or even template to keep your ideas in order—and your grade high. The 5...

This article shares ways to teach listening skills in English, and to teach empathy skills to students.

When I first started teaching, I would try to do everything : I'd be the one to talk, to model thinking something through, to explain, to raise questions, to answer them. But the trouble with this was, I later realized: If I was doing everything, what were my students doing? If I was the one asking questions, how was I letting them build curiosity and inquiry? If I was the one answering questions, what opportunities were they getting to analyze and explain? Many a responsible teacher has...