April Coker, Author

Tag: education

  • 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…

  • Teacher Tuesday: Another school year gone. . .

    I I was at my doctor’s office today getting a bone density screening (yes, I’m that old) and the technician said, “So, you teach?” Of course I told her I had retired last year, so she congratulated me and proceeded to tell me that she used to be a school teacher and sometimes wanted to…

  • 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…

  • Teacher Tuesday (on Wednesday): Why are teachers tired?

    Yes, I know it’s Wednesday, but yesterday I wrote about American ingenuity as a part of FOLK Magazine’s 2013 Journal Challenge, so I’m a day behind.  I could have gone ahead and written about wedded life as I am supposed to on Wednesday, but what is a blog if it isn’t done according to the…

  • TEACHER TUESDAY: Sometimes they become famous. . .

    I am proud to say that many, if not most, of my students have grown into successful adults with good jobs and nice families.  I love seeing them on Facebook showing off pictures of their own children (whom I call my grand-students) and sounding like responsible adults. After all, isn’t every teacher and parent’s goal…