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Lisa writes: I googled “bitter about teaching” and came up with your blog. I was recently let go from a school I busted my a$$ in for a whole year (my first year) - constant criticism, cattiness, and pointing out and embellishing the negative
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**This is a guest post contributed by Heather Johnson, who is an industry critic on the subject of university reviews . She invites your feedback at heatherjohnson2323@gmail.com . For those of you who are not on summer school duty this year, you are probably
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As we begin the month of March, I want to take a look back a year ago and see where my thoughts and focus were oriented. For me, this is productive as it helps me to see the progress, or more accurately the changes, that have happened over the last year.
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In the Christmas break, I am looking back at this blog’s growth and development. I began writing a little bit for the blog in February, but didn’t officially launch it for real until June. Since that time, growth has been pretty consistent.
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This is a guest post by Jane Little of My Many Colored Crayons. Jane teaches third grade in Los Angeles, CA. I teach in a school that has more than it’s share of challenges. Low morale is just one of them. About a year ago I started blogging with this
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As teachers, how often do we stop to think about how much of an impact we could potentially make in the life of one of our students. Even if that student doesn’t ever thank us or even show marked improvement in their academic skills or behavior
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Recently, a reader wrote to me saying: I am currently midway through student teaching and am struggling with classroom management (surprise!). I am not really getting any feedback from my cooperating teacher, other than “use short, quick redirects”
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I want to take a look into the depths of the archives of SoYouWantToTeach.com and see if maybe there are great articles hidden that some of the newer readers have never bothered reading. I think there are.
As we enter the new school year, hopes and expectations
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I hopped over to Confessions From The Couch this evening to check in and see how things were going for Miss A. Boy am I glad I did! She wrote about her first day from hell: It was the worst possible first day anyone could imagine. I’m on the verge of
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On the first day of teaching, my Teacher gave to me: A classroom management plan On the second day of teaching, my Teacher gave to me: Two Administrators
And a classroom management plan On the third day of teaching, my Teacher gave to me: Three days of
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One of the most popular search queries that has sent people to my blog lately has been “why do teachers quit?” Doing a quick search of my sits tells me that I have a number of articles that reference this idea, but have not yet explored exactly
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One of the most popular search queries that has sent people to my blog lately has been “why do teachers quit?” Doing a quick search of my sits tells me that I have a number of articles that reference this idea, but have not yet explored exactly
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We’ve all seen them. People who are able to motivate large numbers of people to do things as a team. Great coaches, teachers, politicians, and even dictators. All of them are great motivators.
Until recently, I would have agreed with that statement.
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After my first post this morning, I realized that I actually met a few high school dropouts. One was mentioned in the previous post. On the flip side were two other young ladies I had lunch with.
These women were 22 and 29 years old. One finished 11th
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I met a high school dropout yesterday. We talked for something like an hour and a half or two hours. It was very revealing and confirms a lot of my thoughts about education. Beware as you read this. If you’re comfortable thinking that everyone needs
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