I used to teach high school Social Studies. In the beginning, I wasn’t very good. I was a nervous, conciliatory and assumed all my students would be mostly like me (rule-following nerds). Luckily, the learning curve in teaching, like parenting, is steep. You can’t really know what teaching […]
Yes! A lot of the conversations between teachers immediately after parent/teacher conferences involve variations of “so that’s where they get it from.” You may have heard the saying, “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” It’s very, very true when it comes to children’s and parents’ attitudes. […]
I once had another teacher tell me that she hates children. Now, in her defense, she is an excellent educator, and the children themselves would NEVER know, but she is just NOT a kid person. When I asked her why she went into teaching, she told me it […]
An urban legend once went round that teachers have a bit of a cushy number – working days of 9 til 3, oodles of work-free holidays and plenty of perks. But while most teachers would laugh hysterically in your face in between pulling out clumps of their own […]
Rules for Teachers – 1872 Teachers will fill the lamps and clean the chimney each day. Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day’s sessions. Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to the individual tastes of the pupils. […]
Училиштето е образовна институција каде учениците не треба да се делат по ниту една основа: нација, религија, боја на кожа, социјала итн. Од тие причини многу училишта овој проблем го решиле на тој начин што за учениците вовеле училишни униформи. Но, за жал, при тоа заборавиле една работа, […]
Talk of teacher shortages has been popping up on a state-to-state basis, so I thought I’d engage in a rare act of actual data collection. I’m working from two basic sources here: 1) a report from USED that actually goes back to 1991, but we’ll just focus on […]
