teaching

Teaching: Classroom Silliness

[Myself, with Mr. Watermelon] In a random moment of ESL Classroom silliness, at the end of class one day (when we had …

[As produced by a student with a set of magnetic words] My students may argue that their teacher is crazy, while their …

[Translation: Today is February 27th, 2009. Teacher Mermaid] I never fully understood it, but two weeks ago some students in my class decided …

My school instituted Enrichment clusters for all grades (which means teachers have to go out and buy extra stuff for a class …

Pre-Winter Break story I forgot to share: It was the day before Winter Break. It was Pajama Day. I can’t really wear …

So, right, 6-year-old boy pulls out a pocket knife, one with a hilt shaped as a revolver, and stabs his classmate in …

Tuesday. After school program. Quiet writing time. A rare moment – though becoming less so: the class is quietly, yet energetically, working …

I was very upset this afternoon. When my students returned to our classroom after the one weekly class I teach with a …

…sometimes I feel guilty for choosing teaching as my career… What gives me the right to spend my days twisting and corrupting …

Everyone’s had the teacher that gets off on tangents in class. For me, it was my 7th grade Social Studies teacher…I remember …