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All about teachers and the world of teaching; teachers sharing their best and worst interactions with students, best teaching practices, the path to becoming a teacher, and more.

Let's Teach In Pajamas Forever
I propose to make the nation's largest public school system completely online, contrary to my public activism and advocacy. This may shock some of you who have been following me for many years. However, I may have felt a bit jealous for some my most passionate detractors. I envy their way of speaking, walking, and working as though they have the whole theory of online education figured out. Instead of fighting them with the other contrarians in my little line, I am now in complete agreement with them.
By Kim Grant5 years ago in Education
Evolution of Media
Since the start of current amassing media, analysts have scrutinized the force of media messages on the decision-making methodology of people. A part of the research on this point is the way we choose concerning our state of being founded on these media messages.
By Dan5 years ago in Education
The Long-Lasting Impact
Educating has been regarded as perhaps the noblest calling for the last numerous hundreds of years everywhere. The educators were believed to be the cerebrum designers and characters working of the best characters, including rulers, scholars, learned people, vanquishers, officers, and researchers.
By GameTech Streaming5 years ago in Education
What I Remember on September 11th 2001...
The skies really WERE a shade of clear blue on September 11th, 2001. At the time, I lived in Homewood, IL. 60430. I was eleven years old.
By Unlisted&Twisted!5 years ago in Education
How a New Teacher Spends Over $500 Before You Even Teach A Class
I always knew I wanted to be a teacher, but I ran away from it for a very long time because I knew that there was really no money in teaching. You are expected to get a bachelor’s degree for a field where, at least in Arizona, you will not get paid even $40,000 per year. I was coasting for a really long time. I was just doing whatever job tickled my fancy, and believe me there were a lot of different ones. It was starting to get ridiculous.
By Nailah Robinson5 years ago in Education
Teaching is Easy...
Teaching is easy. The act of presenting information to people in hopes that they learn a new skill or understand something that they didn’t before is easy.
By M J Graham5 years ago in Education
I help kids with challenges gain independence and be their best selves.
Reactions are mixed when I tell people what I do for a living. Often folks are curious and ask for more information. Some people are surprised – especially if we’ve met in a social situation where I’m behaving like an adult that likes to have fun. Some people reveal their discomfort or distaste for working with challenging individuals, some are impressed.
By Allison Rice5 years ago in Education
Flooding Deserts
Irrigating deserts is a great feeling. Imagine the dry parched ground as the water touches its wizened surface. A feeling it had forgotten. The cool refreshing drops awaken the senses. Everything feels new again,rejuvenated and alive.
By Natalie Stover5 years ago in Education
Complex Thinker Assessor
It’s 7:30 on a working morning. I am sitting alone in an empty room filled with small desks. In front of me is a pile of papers, awaiting my attention. Just outside, I can hear the murmurs of the people who are waiting to enter. I steadily lift my cup of tea and take a sip while looking over my plans for the day. My mind is racing, thinking, wondering if today is going to be a good day where all my plans fall into place, or is there going to be an unexpected surprise (which is always something you cannot prepare for). Regardless, I am confident in what I have prepared and as long as the young people outside of my door are in the right mindset, then all my plans should work flawlessly.
By Iris Harris5 years ago in Education
A Day in the Life
As a sophomore in high school, I wanted to be a physical therapist when I grew up. I had experienced being a patient because of sports injuries and wanted to be on the opposite side of the exam table someday, assigning exercises that no one would do and icing perpetually sore muscles. I spent six years on this plan, convinced that this was what I was going to do with my life...until I actually got to physical therapy school and spent more time enjoying the fact that I was living away from my family within walking distance of so many cool downtown places than I did studying gross human anatomy. So when the end of the first semester rolled around, it wasn’t much of a surprise that I was asked to leave the program and reapply for the following year. It was definitely a wakeup call.
By M.G.5 years ago in Education
Why Drama Camp?
Taylor ** Note: All names have been changed for anonymity.** It's a couple weeks into my new job in a new city. I'm finally starting to find my rhythm. It's 8:45am, and as the camp day begins, I'm welcoming kids by the entrance. We're all clad in masks, as Covid is still a concern, but the kids have turned them into accessories. The masks come in all different colours, some with giraffes, some with sparkles, etc. They match shirts, which match hats, which match backpacks that are as big as the kids themselves.
By Taryn Roo Yoneda5 years ago in Education
Why I Teach
It is 6:30 on a Monday morning as a role over to snooze my second alarm. I’ve never been a morning person; I like to stay up late and sleep later. But as hard as it is I roll out of bed to start my day. I get the kids up to start their school day as well while my wife fixes us some sandwiches for our lunch’s packing in some special treats and notes telling us how much she loves us. She stands at the door holding the baby as the rest of us load up into the car to head to school. Yep, I am a teacher, a science teacher to be specific, but the school I teach for is special.
By Gray Beard Nerd5 years ago in Education