February 2012
8 posts
“Despite — or perhaps because of — Tebow’s success, the prospect of lots of...”
– Tim Tebow Debate: Should Homeschoolers Be Allowed on Public-School Sports Teams?
GWALP’s opinion: If they’re held to the same accountability as public school eligibility, then I say, “Let ‘em play.”
(via girlwithalessonplan)
umm…No. A resounding no. Sports are absolutely a privilege. A...
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The muchness of teaching
So much planning. So much grading. So much calling parents, sending emails, making back-up plans, making copies, unjamming copiers, borrowing resources, making resources. So much assessment-making, so much vocabulary building, so much supply-scrounging, so much sorting out seating charts to deal with the so much hormones in the classroom. There is just so much. And thats with out the so much...
Tuesday's Thoughts: A Director or just a teacher? →
biacktuesday:
“Hey Kyle, so are you going to open up a child care center?”
“What?”
“Are you going to open up a child care center?”
“Uh, I don’t know that’s a lot of work. I just want to get a degree right now and then figure everything else out.”
This happened today, but somehow every Early Childhood…
A male teacher of small children who balks at sexism in the workplace? Please move...
January 2012
11 posts
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Struggling
I can’t decide whether or not its appropriate to go to the funeral for my former student. I haven’t seen them, or been back to that school since finishing my internship almost two years ago, but I’ve kept in touch with some students through Facebook.
I am genuinely heartbroken, for the loss of a life just about to begin, and for all my students, my first students, who I think...
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I’m going to quit teaching and live in a hole. Four dead teenagers in 3 days is too much.
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Once a Student, always yours
I really wanted to come home today and write about how good the last two days have gone since we started the new semester and how exhausted I am, even after having Monday and Tuesday as work days.
I wanted to. But then I found out one of my Poly kids, who I taught for a year during my internship, passed away. Then I found out he took his own life. Then I found out it was with a gun. I am so...
teaching makes you stupid
I swear that every day I walk into that building I get dumber.
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
– Elbert Hubbard (via myquotelibrary)
December 2011
6 posts
Teacher in Training: Conversation with a parent... →
teachintraining:
A little background first. The student involved is a home schooled student who comes to the middle school twice a day: once in the morning for choir and once in the afternoon for Drama. She has not been in class for the last week and a half and I have only just now gotten an answer on the phone:
They could just not care. Or there could be something weird going on. Have a...
Into the Strenuous Briefness: Scrutiny →
iamlittlei:
I’ve been procrastinating my lesson planning very deliberately this weekend.
Tomorrow I am being observed by the district science curriculum supervisor. Until now I have not been too nervous about this; she already likes me, she’s heard nothing but good things about my classroom, and she’s already popped in a few times to see me in action and has always left with a positive...
An art teacher articulately writes what most... →
everyfiredies:
This almost brought tears to my eyes. It’s so painful to listen to the public hate on teachers when I work my ass off every day at a job that most people I meet raise their eyebrows at and say, “I could never handle that job.”
I thought that this might be another “I work damn hard for my money and your kid’s a brat” essay, but its not. Its everything one of...
November 2011
10 posts
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I keep wanting
to write. But life keeps getting in the way.
My kids are awesome. and frustrating. and incredible. and irritating. Pretty much life as normal. Always behind. I keep thinking that the next day or the next week will be time to catch up, but it never happens. Does it ever happen? Does the paper mountain on my desk ever go away?
“I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it’s all the small pieces of...”
– John Green (Will Grayson, Will Grayson)
October 2011
13 posts
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"Nothing you do for children is wasted."
- Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home
I don’t know the author or the book, but I read that line today and so many things bubbled up inside me.
If you chose to be a teacher, remember what you do it for. Remember who you do it for. Remember that you chose it.
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hey snix.: I wish... →
heysnix:
…others could live in my shoes as a teacher/coach for a week.
See how hard it is to handle not one but 6 classes of kids. Not a group you see once a week and have fun with, but 130 kids you see every day.
Feel the exhaustion after giving everything at work, being “on” for the whole day and…
Dear 5 am, monday, M3 day and everything else in general,
You suck.
http://www.gothefucktothelibrary.com/ →
toutlejour:
I have no words.
Just made my day. Well actually, taking off work made my day but this helps.
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lesson idea:
I’m going to teach my kids all about bureaucracy so they won’t be surprised when their bosses all fuck them over.
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Mimosas: the cure for poverty, starvation, war,...
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Day 21
hobgobble:
I got my first paycheck today.
My first thought?
“That’s it?!”
TGIF.
This was me two weeks ago.
September 2011
7 posts
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Oh yeah. And my bestfriend moved across the world today (literally; to Japan).
Fuck today.