For the past two years I had a steady full time job to come back to once summer ended. I would go in for meetings and then work 5 days a week. This year is going to be one of transitions. I left my old job because I was ready to move up to the...
This June I said goodbye to the school I was working at for the past two years and began mentally preparing for a transition to a new school (still TBD). At the end of the year one of the returning teachers gives a send off to a teacher leaving. In mine, the teacher I worked...
Ah, February break. The teacher’s dream. A week off in between the post-December chaos and the long stretch before Spring break. That is, unless you are in graduate school. Especially when graduate school doesn’t close for February break. At least class was cancelled one night this week. The other I missed because we trekked down...
In our classroom our kids use technology a lot. It is not used as a substitute for face to face teaching, but rather used as a tool and a way for all kids to get direct instruction. The lead teacher makes phonics videos so all kids get her mini lessons even when she is working...