education
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Mrs sky y am i faling ur clas????? Dear Unnamed Student, It is an interesting question you have posed. Not only from an aesthetic perspective (ur=your?), but from a grammatic perspective as well. When a question is read aloud, the emphasis of certain words can change the meaning of the question. For example: “WHY am…
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My last post was 14 day before the school year began and now I am 14 days after. In the last fourteen days, I have gotten to know my students a little better and they have gotten to know me a little better. I know which ones can sit in a chair for the time…
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Y’all! I did it! Well, that could be an overstatement. How about…It might finally be happening! I write a lot about the challenging kids here. I write about the ways they make me reflect on my teaching and my attitude, and whether or not it is too late to become a florist. But today…today! Student…
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Teacher has student. Student does not love subject matter. Student does love extracurricular. Student is gone for long period of time. Student returns to school, and makes no mention at all of doing any make-up work. Nor does student take any action to do work that had been due previous to long absence. Ready for…
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Sound off in the comments folks: have you ever had one of those days where the opening chords of “Walking on Sunshine” replace the sound of the alarm in your head, and you spring out of bed ready to carpe the heck out of this diem, and then you trip over your own insecurity, slip…
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This morning, when I woke up, the first thing I thought of was writing. How do I help them love writing? How do I show them, or help them see how each stroke of a key is like a stroke of a brush, the sweep of a blending tool, the saturating color of pastels? We…
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How many of you have asked a kid why they did or did not do something? You can see the scenario in your mind clearly, can’t you? You are standing in front of a young person, maybe one hand is on your hip and they are staring at you with a mixture of defiance, guilt,…
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Sound off in the comments if I am wrong, science teachers, but the combination of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom makes a water molecule. The last science class I took was a long, long time ago, but that stuck in my memory and I think it is true. (Though in an effort to…
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