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I'm Quitting Homeschooling My Kids. There, I Said It.. Top Story - February 2018.
I'm sitting here tonight while my four kids play with Legos and chat about our new goat, Moonpie, who is coming to live with us in two days. There's an occasional shriek as one kid snatches a block from another or accidentally knocks a tower over but more often there are shrieks of laughter. These kids are my whole world. I absolutely love them and work so hard to give them all the best. But right now, homeschooling isn't part of "the best".
By Sugar CreekWriter8 years ago in Education
No Excuses
Richard and I in Fiddler on the Roof, October 2016. No Excuses Three weeks after my 10th birthday, I had an experience that would be the beginning of a change in the way I see myself. I walked into the Dayton Jewish Center multipurpose room, hit a button on a CD player, sang my best “Colors of the Wind,” and went home. There was no way I’d get to hear the word "yes." No way the kid who looked like me would get a shot. Two days later, I got the phone call informing me that I had been cast into the ensemble of a production of Fiddler on the Roof. The seemingly impossible had happened—I was being told yes. After what seemed like a lifetime of being told I couldn’t, I was being given a shot. That was when the theatre bug bit—hard and fast.
By Jamie Pavlofsky8 years ago in Education
When My Teacher Became the Bully...
Have you been a victim of a educator who shamed or humiliated you simply just because your different from the rest of the class? Unfortunately, we've all fallen victim to this form of bullying. Let me just say that my second grade teacher was a woman and I feared her. It all started when I was eight years old and years before I was diagnosed with a learning disability. I already had poor reading and comprehension skills as well as my stuttering which my teacher was well aware of, and I couldn't understand why this teacher was so impatient and too cruel when she would handle her students who had disabilities.
By Victoria Leake8 years ago in Education
5 Ways Being a Substitute Teacher Can Help You as an Education Major
When I was in college, my end goal was to graduate with my BFA in Art Education. I enjoyed art classes all throughout high school and thought it would make sense to further study art and maybe teach in my own classroom someday. As an education major, I was required to gain "field experience" where I had to acquire 40 hours of classroom experience in a middle school or high school setting. The college set up our field experience locations and I went to 2 different schools and pretty much observed how the art teachers in those schools worked and managed their classrooms. As nice as it was to gain some insight of a real classroom setting, I never really took charge. I would just be there to help every now and again and sit back and watch how the teacher orchestrated the classroom. Later in my college experience, I decided to fill out my application to become a substitute teacher. After all, if I was going to be getting classroom experience, it would make sense to get paid, right? So without further ado, here are the 5 ways being a substitute teacher can help you!
By Holly Mooney8 years ago in Education
How to Teach 50 8-Year-Olds Without Wanting to Die
January. Frequently referred to as the worst month of the year. You've got post-Christmas blues, you travel to and from work in the dark, and every bug under the (barely visible) sun has joined up to create one huge mega-bug that is absolutely going to kill you.
By Courtney Stone8 years ago in Education
An Homage to ‘Teachers’
General Constance Greene. Lieutenant Colonel Joan Colaprete. Those are the names of the two “teachers” in my life. Both high school English teachers. Both members of the legion of “teachers” we all hopefully remember from our childhoods throughout the course of our lives. Both were strong and unrelenting. Both eccentric and inspiring. They set the bar high so their students could rise. They got the best out of us and they planted the seed in me for the hunger to learn.
By Eric Trules8 years ago in Education
What Came First: The Teacher or the Person?
Ironically, this is not as complicated as that whole chicken/egg controversy. Most, if not all, teachers can think of a life before teaching; an identity they had before they became Ms./Mrs./Mr. Somebody. A life when they traveled around the world and took casual pictures while leaning on ancient columns...(see featured photo for my former identity ca. 2009)
By Angelica Dunsavage8 years ago in Education
The Secondary Life of Mr Davies: Episode 2
The books should have been laid out neatly on desks in accordance to the carefully designed seating plan Mr. Davies had painstakingly prepared. There should have been a lesson starter on the board to get the pupils engaged immediately at the start to “set the tone” for the lesson. Mr. Davies glanced wearily up from the computer he was leaning over to survey the marketplace of year eight pupils bustling around at the back of the classroom, tearing through boxes in search of exercise books. He was glad he was not being observed today.
By Pip Horrace8 years ago in Education
Out of Bounds
At the start of the year, I truly hated doing my break duty. I was stuck in the west stairwell, which the hooligan element thought of as their picnic spot. The worst of our school would use it as a place to smoke, to eat their lunch then drop it over the floor, that sort of thing. Senior leadership didn’t seem very bothered. Requests for CCTV to find out who was throwing chairs around never even got an answer. In the end, I decided to use a behaviour management system perfected by the former provost of Eton.
By Sebastian Phillips8 years ago in Education
