Category Archives: Teaching

Spaced Repetition Systems

By mattgirod | Published: March 4, 2010

Here’s a cool explanation. http://www.xamuel.com/spaced-repetition-systems/ The following bit caught my attention. The guy is experimenting with SRS and listening to music. “Basically, if you listen to the same song over and over, it gets tiresome. And if you haven’t listened to a song in awhile, it sounds better. Hmmm, this sounds analogous to something, doesn’t [...]

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Classroom Korean

By mattgirod | Published: February 9, 2010

A few weeks ago I was sitting in the staff  office checking my email when my co-teacher opened a package. She pulled out three books. One was a English classroom activities book, a TOIC (Test Of English for International Communication) study guide, and then this one, Classroom English Expression Dictionary. I looked at all three, [...]

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Make an A4 Booklet

By mattgirod | Published: July 11, 2009

Make a 6 page narrative. You simply need a sheet of A4 paper, a pair of scissors, and some creativity to fill the pages. Students can make the book in less 3 than minutes. For the younger students, I’ve found it helpful to use the PDF template with page numbers, handwriting guidelines, and cut markings. [...]

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Handwriting Typefaces (free!)

By mattgirod | Published: July 6, 2009

The Century Gothic typeface wasn’t working for me as a handwriting example for my lessons. I recently found a few alternatives that were perfect. More  can be obtained by going to about.com, but the ones below are the most accurate handwriting typefaces. Download the opentype and truetype versions in one nice little zip package. More [...]

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More Puzzle Zone

By mattgirod | Published: June 12, 2009

This Puzzle Zone totally needs to be adopted by some creative department somewhere. Ah, for me? “bIkE” is the important word here. It wasn’t me who was having the stupendous Monday. God is in my 5th grade class.

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Puzzle Zone

By mattgirod | Published: April 11, 2009

-Proof that the six graders are learning English. Although, I can’t take the credit for this.

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