Way back in 2014 I was a young, bright-eyed student teacher. I was tweeting, I was blogging, I was innovating. I was on fire. Then first year teaching hit me like a ton of bricks. I got a job teaching a brand new course at a brand new school designed to close the achievement gap through a…… Continue reading I Disconnected
I am a perfectionist. I have impossibly high standards for myself. All my life I have been highly skilled and incredibly good at what I do whether it was school, babysitting, being a camp counselor, working at an ice cream shop, or working in a lab. I have always prided myself on the care I…… Continue reading Expectations of Perfection
So right after Thanksgiving break we got a class set of laptops (netbooks?) for our students and with all the tech talk in all my classes I was more than a bit eager to bust them out and get to work. So I’ve been playing around with them, incorporating some tech tools into my lessons,…… Continue reading Teaching With 1:1-Trial and Error
Every day I feel like my students are playing a twisted high school game of musical chairs. I painstakingly created a well thought out seating chart, pairing high achievers with students who need help, bilingual students with ELLs, and considering the IEP recommendations for “Preferential seating up front,” separating those who get rowdy when they…… Continue reading Musical Chairs
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