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But I Don't Wanna
As the school year winds down, it is not just students who are having a case of the "I don't wanna's." Teachers love what they do and have a passion for teaching kids day in and day out. But, they would argue that they are just as tired as students. So, here are some ways that teachers can finish the school year off strong.
By Jessica Peresta6 years ago in Education
5 Signs It's Time to Quit Homeschooling
So as you may know, I signed my little girl up for public school 5 days ago. It was scary, it was heartbreaking (for me, anyway) and I felt like a big, fat, hairy, stinky, ugly failure. Just one day before I hit my absolute breaking point, I was still a total homeschool fanatic with absolutely zero thoughts of putting my kids into public school. YES, I made this decision in about 5 minutes on the very Friday night that I published my first article, typed it up, and made it official for the whole world to see.
By Sugar CreekWriter6 years ago in Education
Once Upon the First Day of School
My first day on the job was ethereal. A week after receiving my temporary teaching license (the length of that process alone makes any future teacher run the other way), I landed a position as a middle school English/Language Arts teacher. Glamorous, I know. What is more, I was assigned to teach at a so-called urban school (inner city school) after quitting a corporate job and going through the 1,001 hoops of my county's public school process.
By Cristina Martinez6 years ago in Education
I'm Quitting Homeschooling My Kids. There, I Said It.. Top Story - February 2018.
I'm sitting here tonight while my four kids play with Legos and chat about our new goat, Moonpie, who is coming to live with us in two days. There's an occasional shriek as one kid snatches a block from another or accidentally knocks a tower over but more often there are shrieks of laughter. These kids are my whole world. I absolutely love them and work so hard to give them all the best. But right now, homeschooling isn't part of "the best".
By Sugar CreekWriter6 years ago in Education
No Excuses
Richard and I in Fiddler on the Roof, October 2016. No Excuses Three weeks after my 10th birthday, I had an experience that would be the beginning of a change in the way I see myself. I walked into the Dayton Jewish Center multipurpose room, hit a button on a CD player, sang my best “Colors of the Wind,” and went home. There was no way I’d get to hear the word "yes." No way the kid who looked like me would get a shot. Two days later, I got the phone call informing me that I had been cast into the ensemble of a production of Fiddler on the Roof. The seemingly impossible had happened—I was being told yes. After what seemed like a lifetime of being told I couldn’t, I was being given a shot. That was when the theatre bug bit—hard and fast.
By Jamie Pavlofsky6 years ago in Education
When My Teacher Became the Bully...
Have you been a victim of a educator who shamed or humiliated you simply just because your different from the rest of the class? Unfortunately, we've all fallen victim to this form of bullying. Let me just say that my second grade teacher was a woman and I feared her. It all started when I was eight years old and years before I was diagnosed with a learning disability. I already had poor reading and comprehension skills as well as my stuttering which my teacher was well aware of, and I couldn't understand why this teacher was so impatient and too cruel when she would handle her students who had disabilities.
By Victoria Leake6 years ago in Education
5 Ways Being a Substitute Teacher Can Help You as an Education Major
When I was in college, my end goal was to graduate with my BFA in Art Education. I enjoyed art classes all throughout high school and thought it would make sense to further study art and maybe teach in my own classroom someday. As an education major, I was required to gain "field experience" where I had to acquire 40 hours of classroom experience in a middle school or high school setting. The college set up our field experience locations and I went to 2 different schools and pretty much observed how the art teachers in those schools worked and managed their classrooms. As nice as it was to gain some insight of a real classroom setting, I never really took charge. I would just be there to help every now and again and sit back and watch how the teacher orchestrated the classroom. Later in my college experience, I decided to fill out my application to become a substitute teacher. After all, if I was going to be getting classroom experience, it would make sense to get paid, right? So without further ado, here are the 5 ways being a substitute teacher can help you!
By Holly Mooney6 years ago in Education
How to Teach 50 8-Year-Olds Without Wanting to Die
January. Frequently referred to as the worst month of the year. You've got post-Christmas blues, you travel to and from work in the dark, and every bug under the (barely visible) sun has joined up to create one huge mega-bug that is absolutely going to kill you.
By Courtney Stone6 years ago in Education