Last year, while walking my students to music class, I overheard one of the most amazing teacher one liner. A fourth grade student had just cursed out four female teachers (four very strong and resilient Bronx women), and was now wandering the hall. Mr. R (the only male teacher in the whole school) stepped out…
read more »EXCEPT FOR THE PART WHERE MY M,TLD TRIED TO SHOW UP UNANNOUNCED FOR AN OBSERVATION! Today was my 6th day in the classroom, and things are hardly where I might want them to be… My M,TLD told me last week that she was going to contact me this week about when a good time for…
read more »The question is because it’s something of a shock, really. While I’ve been “teaching” since late September, I only got my own classroom on Monday. I’m back at the second school I was placed at, since the third didn’t have a classroom for me and I was acting as a floater. In some ways, it’s…
read more »This week has been crazy. I’ve been in four different classes, I’ve been bitten, thrown up on, sent home early, made to stay late. I’ve had my commute take 10 times longer than it should. And yesterday, I was told that today I will be going to a different school to (hopefully) get my own…
read more »So I’m teaching, in Houston. WOO! Things I’m learning and struggling with: There is leadership, and there is teaching. On a personal level, I think I make some successes in teaching, but I feel like I’m a bit too young to have this job. I think it’s completely different to be a leader among your…
read more »Khairi has been suspended 3 times. He is known to run out of our classroom, spend entire lessons crawling from underneath one table to the next poking the legs of other children as they are working, locking himself in the boys bathroom stall hysterically laughing and refusing to come out. And also, chair throwing…. I…
read more »I’ve been a Kindergarten teacher for 7 weeks. These 30 five year olds have pretty much taken over my life. Luckily, they are super adorable and when they are not trying to eat their shoelaces or throw a chair at me…they are very lovable. It’s amazing how insecure a 5 year old could make you…
read more »When I do get into my own classroom, I want my class to have the best library a 3/4-year-old has every seen! I’ve been rummaging around and gathering all of my old books, but I’m still looking for more! I have a lot of books that would be good for elementary and middle school classrooms…
read more »This week I finally got into a classroom, YAY! Of course, because these things can never be easy, there is trouble brewing. I haven’t been writing much (practically at all) because there’s been very little to say. I got hired, and then things sort of fell out of place. I’ve been hired by a network…
read more »Tonight and through the next week I will be writing daily about the week in videos, content, developments in curriculum, assessment tools, data collection, connection, soccer games, bowling and how I am trying to grab 20+ hours of work in less time than that.
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