Hello again, I received a call yesterday from a principal who was considering hiring one of my former student teachers. He asked me a series of questions that I thought would be good to share with my blog readers. It thought it might be nice to be able to share with prospective teachers what principals […]
Hello all, I wanted to share something that really had an impact on me, and reminded me of why I became a teacher. Funny how it seems that I’m being reminded of this a lot lately. Like I’ve been sharing, we have a student who has been diagnosed with Autism, and has been becoming more […]
Hello again, it’s been a while, but I’m back. Today I want to share what’s been going on with the student that I mentioned in the podcast. This is the student who has been diagnosed with Autism, but is demonstrating behaviors that are becoming more and more violent. She was recently suspended for hitting a […]
Recently, we had a staff meeting where the principal was “encouraging” the staff to use more higher-level, more engaging lessons with the students. She especially was concerned about the use of wordsearches in the classroom. Evidently she had found a wordsearch left in the copier. I use wordsearches. But wait! I don’t use them like […]
