Posted in First-Year, Reflections, Teacher Perks on Sep 25th, 2008 1 Comment »
One of my mentors, another high school chem teacher, emphasized the need to focus on at least one good thing that happened during the school day.
Today, I had no trouble figuring it out
As I sat in the sky lit atrium at 5:45pm a student pulled up a chair next to me. For the [...]
Posted in Reflections, Struggles on Sep 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
I had to keep two students after school today so that we could have a discussion on respect and cooperation. Why do the worst moments of my day always happen in the last 10 minutes of class? Is there some scientific formula to this madness?
He called her, “Idiot.” She yelled and screamed at him first.
Or [...]
Posted in Reflections, Struggles on Sep 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
This is my second year of teaching.
I’ve quickly come to realize that the whole “in your second year of teaching, things get so much easier!” deal is actually a myth. It’s a myth.
Well, at least it is for me.
If i had 5 periods of geometry classes, it’d be a different story. I didn’t begin the [...]
Posted in Higher Ed, Random Meanderings, Reflections on Sep 10th, 2008 1 Comment »
Disclaimer: Having worked in the K-12 and higher education system for most of the last 5 years, I’m well aware that there are stigmas attached to the term “yellow bus” and “going green” for that matter (laugh right about…now). I apologize ahead of time for this–it must be the marketing/public relations side of me coming [...]
Posted in First-Year, Reflections, Struggles, The Achievement Gap on Sep 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Here are some first week quotes that should shed some light on my experience thus far:
“Miss, you ain’t gonna stay.”-student on day 1
“Miss, you should get with a Puerto Rican. You’d have sexy kids.”-female student
“Principal T asked us what we thought of you. Don’t worry, we all said you were good.”-student after school
Students say [...]
Posted in Reflections on Sep 3rd, 2008 2 Comments »
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
That pretty much sums up my feelings. Prior to tonight I can only think of one other situation where I was scared out of my mind.
During our first year in college (oh so long ago) my friend Angie orchestrated a trip to Lodai, California to go sky diving. For weeks my dearest friends and I [...]
