The Legend of Zelda taught me the importance of exploring to find the answer; and to connect as many dots as possible before giving up. Super Mario Bros. taught me that even something that seems impossible can become easy with practice. Monkey Island taught me that there is always a solution, no matter how weird... Read more
Last year, I wrote a guest post for the Grammarly blog about writing, and how it is one of the most important skills you can develop. Today, this post on Iserotope (one of my favorite teacher blogs) inspired me to write a sequel about the importance of reading. Specifically: the importance of reading fiction. You... Read more
guest written by Wim Coleman of Chiron Books. In my previous post, I wrote about introducing storytelling techniques (especially dramatic ones) as an aid to teaching literature. In my fourth and final post as a guest here, I’ll to share some ideas for using storytelling in the classroom to teach history. I’ve got a powerful personal... Read more
guest written by Wim Coleman of Chiron Books. In my last two posts, I hinted at how storytelling—especially improvisations and scripted scenes—can be used to teach almost any subject. Here I’m going to make some specific suggestions about a widely-taught work of literature. Say you’re teaching Hamlet to your English class. Your students, of course, approach... Read more
guest written by Wim Coleman of Chiron Books. To continue my thoughts on narrative in the classroom, I’ll begin (appropriately) with a story. When I was a college sophomore theater student, I belonged to a small acting group called ETC—The Educational Theater Company. Our job was to put on scenes in classrooms all over the college... Read more
guest written by Wim Coleman of Chiron Books. When it was suggested that I write a guest post for TestSoup about bringing narratives into the classroom, I was immediately thrilled. Then I was daunted. My wife, Pat Perrin, and I met in Los Angeles in 1986. By the time we got married the next year,... Read more
guest written by Shahar Link of Mindspire Tutoring & Test Prep Here’s a common situation on a reading section of a standardized test: you read the passage, you hit the questions, you do your strategies and techniques and all that, and you still get two or three wrong. When you review the problem, you see... Read more
