I just got back from a memorial service for a young man who should have been one of my students. He died of cancer last week. His name was John. Cancer sucks. I listened to all the remarks of the people who knew him and how such an inspiration he was to them, and I […]
As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, I received a call from the principal of the school where my former student teacher had an internship. I listed all the questions he asked me about her. Hopefully they were helpful in giving you an idea of what a school administrator is looking for in […]
In my class, I have several students who have been diagnosed with either a learning disability or a physical disability, and I’ve been guilty of what I’m trying to advocate against in this post – referring to th student by the disability label. For example, I hear teachers refer to these students as the resource […]
I tried something new today in class, and it didn’t go as well as I thought it was going to go. I planned an activity where my students were going to act out the key terms that were going to be on tomorrow’s test. It was almost like a game of charades. From the inception […]