Resources

Laura Randazzo's Teaching Blog:

A Fun Resource Spot for Creative English Teachers

Where to Find It

You can find Laura Randazzo's teaching blog for free online. Her blog also offers both free and inexpensive worksheets, assignments, and lesson plans for English teachers.

Why to Find It

Randazzo is a high school English teacher herself, but her lessons and ideas are applicable in the early college classroom as well. Her blog features everything from assignment sheets to personal teaching stories to useful YouTube videos. Randazzo's teaching style emphasizes both multimodal forms of learning and using creative writing and literature as tools in educational environments. She often encourages (or even requires) students to make relevant connections between course content, their interests, and modern issues or events. She uses everything from poetry to podcasts in her classroom, and her blog is filled with free lessons and questions for teachers to go over with their own students. Because of the accessibility of these lessons, along with the creativity they foster within students, this website is a game-changer for the inventive educator.