April Coker, Author

Tag: student

  • Out of the blue. . .

    I’m minding my own business, doing my weekly grocery, etc. shopping at our hometown big box discount store.  I pass the sporting goods department where my husband is perusing hunting supplies when I meet a nice-looking man who nods and says hello.  Thinking he is more friendly than most, I nod and say hello and…

  • Teacher Tuesday: Admitting you’re wrong

    What?  Wrong?  Me?  But I’m the teacher! Laughable, isn’t it? But sometimes we teachers are afraid to admit when we have made a mistake.  After all, we are people, too, and people generally have a hard time admitting when they are wrong. But, and this is a biggie, it is even more important for a…

  • 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…

  • TEACHER TUESDAY: Meet the Parents

    One of the most difficult things I had to do as a teacher was contacting parents.  Oh, don’t get me wrong.  I didn’t mind sending notes and letters home, or stamping classwork with “Parent, please sign,” or even asking students to get their parents to call me.  That was easy.  The hardest part for me…