March 2008 - Posts
Why can’t the girls play soccer with the boys? ‘Cause girls don’t know how to play. Girls can play soccer! Fine! Then tomorrow at recess we’ll see who beats who. And so it was determined that, at recess, the boys of Mrs. B’s class would take on the girls
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Why is it that I feel raising my voice or speaking curtly makes the message penetrate a child's mind more effectively? ...and how abnormal is it for teachers to go to school, project their voices, yell and scream before integrating themselves back into
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Going into my second week of full-time student-teaching. And I'm feeling a feeling I've felt a lot this past week of 100%. Fluctuating between sheer excitement at the idea of going in to teach the kids, and a sinking feeling that it's not going to go
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Having just completed my 75% week, where I am about to begin my no-cooperating-teacher 100% two-weeks, I realize - almost alarmingly - now that one role of a teacher, that is often overlooked by myself, is to teach. Writing lesson plan after lesson plan,
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Every lunchtime, Jc methodically takes out his food in the order in which it will be eaten (read: from dessert to snack to sandwich). Today, he took out his prized fruit roll-up, undoubtedly the highlight of his lunch, and then wandered away from the
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Something I have realized since taking up more responsibility in front of my students, and setting and following through with expectations, is that I've started to become a less forgiving person. It's weird. Yes, in the elementary school I seek to manage
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