April Coker, Author

Tag: teaching

  • TEACHER TUESDAY: More tales from the darkside. . .

    Just kidding. . .not really the darkside.  That phrase just has a ring to it, although some days in the classroom or school were dark for a lot of my students at different times.  For a young, inexperienced schoolteacher who was about as confident as a tightrope walker without a net, there were dark times…

  • TEACHER TUESDAY: Trials of a young teacher. . .

    When I started my teaching career fresh out of college in 1982, I was 23 and totally ignorant of the challenges I would be facing for the next 30 years.  What first-year teacher isn’t?  And thank the good Lord we can’t see into the future.  If I had I might have run screaming the other…

  • CHEAP WEDDING WEDNESDAY: DIY or DYI?

    One way to keep wedding costs down is to do it yourself, or as it’s known in the television world, DIY.  You try to create everything you can with what you already have without spending a fortune paying someone else to do it for you.  And since I am retired from teaching now, I figure…

  • TEACHER TUESDAY: Lest we forget. . .

    I left my classroom during the break between classes and headed to a colleague’s door.  We were chatting when another teacher stopped and asked, “Did you hear about the World Trade Center?  A plane crashed into it.” Hurrying back to my classroom, I switched on the television and as students entered the room, our attention…

  • 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…