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— Milty Goes to ConnecticutSometimes teaching involves ignoring whole organ systems, most often the digestive and excretory. (And for some of us the reproductive as well but that is a post for another time altogether.)
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— Learning on the RiverTeaching is a job that has many cogs constantly turning: planning, grading, teaching, working extra duties, and communicating with parents. Noticeably absent from that list is free time. I never thought that I would have a job that would require me to actively schedule fun time.
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— Learning As LeadershipI’ve never felt this discouraged, but I’ve also never been so inspired by my own discouragement. It is the strangest feeling. I think this must be what passion feels like. I think this must be what caring feels like.
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— from Learning on the RiverI love teaching. I love it like a fat kid loves cake. I love it like my 14 year olds love Dora the Explorer backpacks. This is definitely my forever job. Just being in my classroom makes me happy.
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— Ms. Math in AZThis sends me into one of those awful first-year-teacher lows, where I’m suddenly convinced that I’m a terrible teacher… I haven’t had a low like this in awhile, so I guess I was due for one.
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Of course we can’t be done with this yet. I spent all day today cleaning out my room, hanging out with former (!) students, and hugging crying seventh graders. We got all my stuff into boxes, with one kid starting a timer and making me work when kids would stop by to distract me. A…
read more »Tornadoes have been tearing it up around here… and my classroom is not exempt. My kids are off the wall, not that I can blame them. Our room is completely torn up– posters off the walls, trackers down, all our materials out and about. Our school is closing, or rather being “repurposed”, so this past…
read more »5/25/11 I taught my last official lesson of the year today! We had our Socratic Seminar (kinda like a debate). I had almost decided to scrap it and just do movies with them, but I’m really glad I didn’t. I made it better from last time: I chose 6 to go in. They had 4…
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