I have been working very hard on my pre-work. Here is what I have developed for my Story of Self. What do you think? My papa always said you never fail until you stop trying. My dad always told me to do your best and then do even better. I grew up in rural…
read more »Two weeks. I’ve been teaching them for only two weeks, and I’m terrified that I’m doing something dreadfully wrong. Today they took their unit exam for The Canterbury Tales. The average score on the objective portion of the test (25 questions, multiple choice and matching) was 63%. At our school, 70% is the cutoff for…
read more »I’ve never been one to dwell things. In college, I was always the one who could shrug off a bad test score or an intramural loss and move on to the next one. It’s not that I didn’t care- to the contrary, it’s because I cared about so many different things that there was always…
read more »Before our Chinese New Year beak one of my students left our school. He is applying for early acceptance into college. Before he left he gave me a huge compliment. We were talking about his writing. I told him how much he had grown as a writer, and how proud I was of the progress…
read more »I really enjoyed this movie, especially after watching Waiting for Superman and reading articles for my Teach for America pre-work. SO much of what I am learning in pre-work came up in this movie – statistics, ideals about teaching, etc. The movie is about two women who were not satisfied with the education their children were getting…
read more »So I have been reading over some of the questions for interviews and one of them talks about your philosophy of education. I remember writing my philosophy of education during my sophomore year of college. It was a daunting task to think about how and why I teach the way I do. This is what…
read more »Ni Hao for those who don’t know is hello in Chinese. I want to tell you a bit about myself. I am currently teaching in China at an international school. I moved here with my husband after I graduated in May 2011 with my degree in Secondary English Education. I teach middle-school and high-school science,…
read more »A really long time ago there was this guy named St. Valentine. He lived in Rome and there was something about weddings. It’s really interesting, you should learn about it some time. (Yes I just wrote that paragraph. Yes I spent today in a writing PD. Yes I should probably be ashamed of myself. Oops?)…
read more »Kepler’s is a fairly well known restaurant not just in Greenville, MS but for the wider delta. I’d heard of it more than once, but would not have expected to be sitting alone here on a Friday night, Diet Coke glass and salad plate empty, mapping out the rest of my twenties and updating my…
read more »If you clicked on this blog because you were looking for another rant about how much teaching sucks, I’m sorry to disappoint. I think that teaching is the best job in the world. I think that anyone who thinks otherwise, should just not be a teacher. Seems like it should be that simple. I definitely…
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