Account of a trans man’s experiences as a high school teacher, via buzzfeed Consider reading it. Interesting.
Account of a trans man’s experiences as a high school teacher, via buzzfeed
February 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
#Test #teacher, test teacher, we know how to, uh, show it?
January 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The fabled #superteacher
August 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Great piece in the LA Times about the unreasonable demands for teachers to be extraordinary, that you’re either good or bad, no in between. I read some history of education, discussing the common school movement, stating that the conventional wisdom at the time was wrong: you can’t fill every classroom with “born teachers,” just like […]
Quickies
May 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Tabula rasa
April 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I now begin an anthem for a new tomorrow. Who would have thought that the song opens with a soft click-click-click? If you’ve been following my Mac saga here, I just received word this morning that my old hard drive is brain-dead. Nothing can be retrieved. So, it’s slowly sinking in now that I have […]
Teacher/Parent conflicts: how do we resolve these?
Our special episode of At the Chalk Face with a NJ teacher/parent is rescheduled for this evening at 6PM EST. Appropriately enough, I received an email from another teacher/parent with some frustrations that seem very difficult to resolve. How do other teachers who are also parents negotiate this minefield? Here’s this teacher’s tale over a […]