As I have recharged, refocused, and reevaluated my outlook on education, I want to do the same for my students. It is my goal this year to create an educational experience for my students, unlike any other. As I have…
Why Teaching is Harder Than it Looks
A colleague at my externshp shared this article with me. It is a great account of someone thinking teaching is an easy profession, until they are thrown into it. Enjoy! http://femaleintel.com/blogs/view/why-teaching-is-harder-than-it-looks
Maquette
A maquette: preliminary model: a small model of a planned sculpture or architectural work I relate my AHA externship moments to the experience of an artist creating a maquette. When you begin teaching you start with nothing, like a fresh slab of clay. …
A Happy Parent is an Informed Parent
Parents struggle making the transition from elementary school to middle school, right along with their students. Parents and students need to adapt to this new way of independent learning, including larger schools, more teachers, online learning, new grading policies, etc, Parents…
Ain’t Nobody Got Time fo Dat
Every year my colleagues introduce me to multiple “unique” and “entertaining” YouTube videos. Two years ago it was all about the “honey badger” and a new teacher motto was born (watch the video to understand). Last year was the YouTube sensation “ain’t…
Mind the Gap
What I have learned through my fellowship is I have a giant gap in my classroom, a gap between what the students are learning and application to the real world. Don’t get me wrong, I have my students learning all…
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Leveraging technology to empower learning in your classroom can be compared to the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. On one side of the coin technology is empowering, helpful, and upstanding. However on the other side, it turns against…