teacher
All about teachers and the world of teaching; teachers sharing their best and worst interactions with students, best teaching practices, the path to becoming a teacher, and more.
Got a Key?
Let me just start by saying that I have the utmost respect for teachers. Regardless of the age or grade they teach, these are truly special people. It takes someone with the right personality and temperament to be put into a room with anywhere between 10-40 kids/teenagers/adolescents. Who am I kidding? It takes a special person to be able to teach 1. It takes a super hero to teach more than that, more than once.
By Emma Merritt5 years ago in Education
Strange Mr. Keller
Strange Mr. Keller By Tanya Curran I had a teacher named Mr. Keller for Science in High School. He was a middle-aged man in his late 40’s. He was a stupendous, little man with slightly grey hair, he was balding, and wore glasses. He had a hardy laugh, and great vigor for teaching the subject of science. He was also a bit quirky at times. He would wear a pocket protector full of pens in his shirt and line them of according to height with a little black notebook tucked snuggly behind the pens, and he snorted whenever he laughed. He was not much in the way of fashion, but had a very studious air about him. He would always go out of his way to help you understand anything you had a problem with in his class. He was a very kind man. He started acting surprisingly suspicious though in the latter part of the year. He would pop up out of nowhere. It was like one minute he was there, and the next nowhere to be found. A few occasions I caught him walking out of the janitor’s maintenance closet. “Why would he be in there?”, I wondered.
By Tanya Sires Curran5 years ago in Education
The Teacher
Hair thrown in a messy bun to disguise the shine of grease, Ms. Sato shuffled into her classroom. Dumping her backpack, binders and cloth grocery bag she exhaled, exhausted. If energy had existed within her body, she would have laughed at the overwhelming feeling of exasperation and isolation.
By Carissa Sato5 years ago in Education
Excellence In Education As A National Priority
Learning is a complex process. We learn by building on past experiences; by trial and error; by starting with simple tasks and combining them over time to accomplish more complex tasks; and, by gaining insight and understanding of the relationship between various parts of a problem. Research demonstrates that for teaching to be effective, a learner must be able to create meaningful relevant patterns. The process of learning must be maintained within a context of appropriate and challenging standards.
By Megan Wilson5 years ago in Education
Zoom Breakout Rooms
If you love being in the classroom teaching as much as I do, then this past year has been quite an adjustment for us both. Back in March of 2020, the face of education changed, and this made a lot of teachers uncomfortable. I know I was asking myself how I was going to deliver the same material the same way I always had. My “go-to” in class was groupwork and changing over to Zoom seemed like it was going to throw a wrench in the works, so to speak. I had never used Zoom before, and the small crash course my college gave didn’t really prepare me for what I was getting into. How was I going to have my students work together? Could I achieve the same results virtually that I did face to face? Then, I learned the breakout room feature, and I realized I could have my students work with each other just as if we were in class. So, I used some of the group activities that I had used face to face, and one of my favorites is the activity on logos, pathos, and ethos.
By Mike Johnson5 years ago in Education
Affirmation
An unfamiliar street name in Santa Clara, California, glimpsed on the return address label as she signed for a certified letter, set off a rapid-fire mental slideshow of potential senders. She knew of three or four long-ago classmates and neighbors who had migrated. Or maybe her sister had moved again. But then, why would that merit certified mail instead of a phone call or e-mail? Bad news or good? Could it be (hope, hope, hope) some kind of happy surprise never imagined?
By Connie Burket5 years ago in Education
The Perfect Day
I walked back into my classroom, and there it was sitting on my desk. My first thought was maybe this was my black notebook. I keep one in my bottom drawer at all times for brainstorming and ideas generation. This is a classic move for a “Teacher-preneur” like me, but when I saw the beautifully crafted thank you sticker I knew it wasn’t mine. I was tempted to call the office and see if anyone had lost it, then I noticed my whole name embossed in gold in the right corner. How could that be? Who put this here? My door was locked how did they get it in here? Should I open it? After at least 3 minutes of internal struggle with what to do next, I opened it.
By Tracey H Sydnor 5 years ago in Education
our students can teach adults how to treat one another
I love teaching. I’ve been doing it for 22 years. But really, I would call it learning. Every day, my students and I learn alongside one another, growing and discovering stuff together. I use my experience and knowledge to help them hang out with words and language and global events, trying to scrape the “learning” from all of it using critical thinking skills. It. is. my. passion.
By Carrie Wisehart5 years ago in Education
My First Year Teaching
"What are you doing out of class Melanie?" "Mrs. Anderson, my water broke!" So if this sounds crazy, it was. My first year as a teacher was anything but traditional. I had just graduated from college with my teaching certificate when I landed my first teaching job. It was at an all girls alternative school called the Teenage Mothers' School or TAMS for short. My students ranged in ages from 14 to 18 where I taught Freshmen English through Senior English. What a year it was! Besides just graduating from college, I had also just gotten married and now had to prepare four different lesson plans. My poor husband was lucky to see me before sundown most days. Still I had so much fun with my students. We all cried, laughed and learned together. The lessons went beyond English Language Arts and literature. I always used humor to lighten the mood and break the ice. So one April Fool's Day, I decided to play a joke on my students. However, little did I know that the joke would be on me.
By patricia anderson5 years ago in Education
