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Teacher Tuesday: Establishing a routine
By this time, about the second week of school, you are probably beginning to accumulate papers, notebook or journal entries, memos from different offices or departments, and data that needs to be entered into the computer, such as grades and student information (special education, language learners, etc.). As a teacher it was difficult to…
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Wedded Life Wednesday: A Temporary Discombobulation
I’ve been feeling sad the past couple of days, attributing it to my teacher’s soul feeling a bit left behind by the whole world going back to school. Not that I really want to go to school myself, but there’s a weird feeling of restlessness and purpose-less-ness after thirty years of the August frenzy of…
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Teacher Tuesday: Advice for the new teacher
Much has been written for and about teachers, especially advice for the new teacher, but I thought I would devote today’s blog post to that subject anyway. After 30 years of teaching and administrating, I feel like I know a little something about the field, so here goes. . . As a new teacher about…
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Teacher Tuesday (on Wednesday!): Incentive to Teach?
It seems the powers that be just can’t stop making the teaching profession more and more attractive to would-be teachers. First, they gave us longer school days and longer school years. Then they began teacher testing. Soon after followed high stakes student testing, the results of which can threaten a teaching career, and certainly…
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TEACHER Tuesday: Reminiscing
I guess the bane of retirement would be the constant reminiscing–you know, always bringing up stories about your former life as a steelworker, mechanic, teacher, coach, doctor, etc. And I suppose I should clarify. The bane is not for the storyteller but for the person trapped by him or her! I have come to…
April Coker, Author 