April Coker, Author

Tag: teacher

  • 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…

  • 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 (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…

  • Wedded Life Wednesday: Ups and downs and all arounds. . .

    Last weekend hubby and I drove two hours east to see my former student and country superstar Miranda Lambert in concert.  Hubby really does not like country music at all, but he has been a trooper and accompanied me to many of her concerts.  I think the opportunity to shop at Bass Pro and eat…

  • 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…