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Category / Teacher Musings

April 6, 2021

Extreme Makeover Classroom Edition

Since starting in my current job my classroom has seen many different iterations. I vividly remember slowly but surely transforming my room around my class when I was hired mid-year. I look back on that and wonder what I was thinking but then am so grateful to my now husband who spent hours with me...

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Classroom Teacher Musings

March 22, 2021

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My (New) Career as a YouTuber

by EBEKER

I have always watched other teachers (and most recently Sims 4 streamers) on YouTube to learn tips and tricks. I find that they teach me a lot and for someone who is a visual/auditory learner, they are a great way for me to see things at my own pace and truly internalize them. Some of...

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Classroom EdTech Teacher Musings

EdTech Google Jamboard New EdTech Classroom Pocketful of Primary Teachers who vlog YouTube

July 27, 2017

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Year in Transition

by EBEKER

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...

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Teacher Musings

internship reading specialist substitute teacher transitions

July 18, 2017

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A Quiet Brain…For Once

by EBEKER

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...

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Teacher Musings

summer teacher musing vacation