I never like admitting that I’m afraid of anything. Today, however, if anybody is reading this, I’m admitting that I’m afraid . As you know, if you’ve been keeping up with SITC, my school club, the CFIS Philanthropic Society is sponsoring a 5K Walk to raise money to help a family with a baby struggling […]
What do you do when there is a student who just won’t stop disrupting the class? This is a question I get a lot from my student teachers. New teachers especially are going to be tested right off the bat by certain students. Some students just don’t get it. You warn them. You give them […]
Every year, I have a student who I claim as my “project.” This is that one student who just doesn’t care about school. He doesn’t do his homework. He doesn’t care if we call his parents. His parents don’t follow through with their promises to encourage him at home. This is the student who the […]
Today we sang the Star-Spangled Banner in class. We learned about the battle of Fort McHenry and the poem written by Francis Scott Key. Normally, this isn’t one of my more interesting lessons, so what I’ve done for the last few years to spice things up is to hand them a copy of the National […]
