Michelle on Jan 26 2008 | Filed under: The Personal, The Teaching
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!If anyone else out there also teaches geography, I’ve just found a great site! It’s My Wonderful World, and it has scads of information and links, including a very interesting blogroll. I found it over at Planet Nomad, whose […]
Michelle on Jan 26 2008 | Filed under: The Teaching
Today in class we talked about the presidential race. The kids were just beyond apathetic, as in, “Why do we have to learn about this stuff”, except for a couple who are pretty pro Obama. However, as we started talking about the different candidates and their platforms, they became more interested. Then the inevitable question […]
Michelle on Jan 22 2008 | Filed under: The Teaching
It is weird, how one day you can feel like you’re the best teacher in the whole world, and then another day, feel like one of the worst. I suppose some of my kiddos didn’t have a good three-day weekend, because they weren’t in a very good mood today, and I wasn’t either, having gotten […]
Michelle on Jan 20 2008 | Filed under: The Teaching
My students, completely unprompted by me, have been writing poetry. They churn it out like crazy, and then unabashedly offer it up to the rest of the class to judge. I’m tellin’ ya, this is one of the best group dynamics I’ve ever had in a class. Everyone seems to feel “safe”. They are asking […]
Michelle on Jan 19 2008 | Filed under: The Teaching
Today I took Salsa to school with me. It wasn’t a big deal since it was a workday. Sage came too, and it was cool having my family in the room with me while I completed what seemed to be endless grading. Salsa growled at Mr. Sir like he was the devil. She sounded like […]
Michelle on Jan 17 2008 | Filed under: The Teaching
Tomorrow is a teacher work day. I really, really want to take the 200 or so papers that I have to grade and burn them. No one would ever know. I wonder how many teachers do this? I don’t feel like I “teach” at my program. It is all a bunch of busywork. It is […]
Michelle on Jan 17 2008 | Filed under: The Teaching
Today, one of my students had her last day in my program. I really hated to see her go. That is one of the bad things (for me) about my program–I don’t get to have students all year most of the time, and so just when I’m getting attached, they leave! Sometimes it’s difficult for […]
Michelle on Jan 13 2008 | Filed under: The Fluff, The Teaching
I’ve always been a bit jealous of those individuals who know how to draw, so I’ve been bookmarking sites that show simple drawing techniques. There’s some stuff on Metacafe, and in WikiHow, but the best site I’ve found so far is Drawspace.com. It is an absolutely free site, and the lessons are leveled from Beginner […]
Michelle on Jan 12 2008 | Filed under: The Teaching
What do you do when a kid has been completely traumatized, yet seems to have moved past it in a dysfunctional way? I was talking to one of my kiddos for a while Friday, and learned that he had witnessed two of his uncles being butchered by some drunk guys with machetes when he lived […]
Michelle on Jan 12 2008 | Filed under: The Teaching
I’m so jealous. You know I’ve taught the kids in my class how to crochet. Some have really taken off with it, while others have more or less given up. Today, at lunch, we sat around the table talking as usual while the kids messed around with the yarn. I looked over at one kid, […]
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