Last week, I had morning hall duty every day. Started the week with Meet the Teacher night Monday, then had meetings after school Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday - actually two meetings on Thursday.
Can you tell how fun this week was?
I hate having my kids waiting outside my classroom door before 1st period. I want to be in [...]
Entries from September 2008
September 28, 2008
Need a day off to catch up on work
September 15, 2008
On Talking… more… slowly…
I just read this post from The English Teacher Blog, and I feel guilty enough to write a whole post about it.
Basically, she talks about, well, talking – and how we teachers often go to fast for our students’ brains to process. She mentions students with IEPs and English Language Learners… well, guess what? Same [...]
September 14, 2008
Do you Twitter?
If so, follow me!
Does anyone else think Twitter would be a fun resource to use in a language classroom? Express yourself in 140 characters or less… makes you stretch your vocab muscles!
I also want to find a way to incorporate Six-Word Stories into my language class. These, however, are projects that will have [...]
September 13, 2008
Help Wanted from an Earth Science Teacher
Please read this post from theinfamousj, looking for a few brave folks to video themselves near a famous/interesting city landmark, and giving their lattitude and longitude (website where you can find your coordinates is provided in the post).
This sounds like an AWESOME lesson! And the magic of the Internetz can make it happen -help out, Internetz!
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September 9, 2008
Feeling accomplished… ish
My goal today was to leave school early enough to get my nails done. I am happy to report I succeeded.
(Which makes it much easier to type this post, and the emergency lesson plans I still haven’t turned in even though they were due last week, and the grades I need to have in my [...]
September 7, 2008
On Long Weeks and Short Weekends
Last weekend was Labor Day. We had an entire extra day, to rest, to catch up, to whatever.
I know I, like the rest of you, got that extra day. I had it.
I have no idea where it went.
Last weekend I was supposed to plan out the six-weeks (OK, skeleton plan the six-weeks)… yeah, didn’t really [...]
September 1, 2008
“We Didn’t Start The Fire”
Sometimes, I wish I taught history, just so I could build a lesson around Billy Joel’s song.
