teaching
September 5, 2009
- Last week's blog topic was "Back to School"--a notion that's on most people's minds, in one way or another, at this time of year: many Red Room bloggers are teachers and/or students, many have kids in school, and all of us have memories of classrooms, lessons, and teachers (good and bad). Here are the three bloggers we chose to feature his week: Farzana Versey shares a memory of ...
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September 5, 2009
- Στα Θρανία [sta thrania] 'At the desks' - overworked prepositional phrase inserted into Greek titles for films, newspaper articles, etc., dealing with school. 'Scandal at the Desks' 'Love at the Desks', and so on.Greek education is test mad. Few teachers are able to see testing and teaching as separate, and so very few students can either. What are the effects of such a learning culture? ...
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September 3, 2009
- “Ma’am we cannot see, but we can hear.” His words hit me. The mike was too loud, the room too small. I was to teach a group of visually-impaired students language skills at the National Association for the Blind. I had never taught anyone before. These were graduates and post-graduates. There was one spunky guy who wanted to know about my qualifications. I hesitated. Between vanity and ...
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September 3, 2009
- BACK TO SCHOOL
My first day of public school teaching was on September 3, 1940, and I showed up at Piedmont Avenue Elementary School with two black eyes and a wide bandage across my forehead. It was not a promising way to face a new class of fourth graders.
During the Labor Day weekend, preceeding that first day of school, my husband, Jim, and I decided to celebrate my new job by ...
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September 2, 2009
- It was back to school today at the state college where I teach. I woke up after dreaming I had no clean underwear. Not a good start. Also, I had to drag myself out of bed. It has been over a year since I had an 8:15 class, and haven't had to get up that early in what seems like ages. Yesterday I took a walk to the new building my early classes are in, and discovered one of my classes was ...
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September 2, 2009
- I've been a teacher for thirty-three years. My first teaching job was a Freshman Comp class when I was a graduate student in English. Twenty-four, I looked twelve. So I pinned up my hair and wore fake glasses and my best clothes, which consisted of one dress. I wore pumps. Taller, my hair in a bun--hopefully that would do it. I was a teacher! Some of my students were Vietnam ...
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September 2, 2009
- When Mr. McCormack teaches about Paul Revere's Ride, I can swear there's a horse in the room. I make sure to check the bottoms of my shoes before going on to my next class.It is the 1962-63 school year. I am in Mr. McCormack's seventh-grade American History class at Millburn (New Jersey) Junior High School. Sandy-haired, blue-eyed, twenty-three-year-old Mr. McCormack looms above me—ancient ...
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August 30, 2009
- I just received the new book My First Year in the Classroom, with a story I wrote in it! I'm excited! You can check it out on Amazon.Many teachers contributed, and it's got some great insight in it for new and veteran teachers! Since it's a compilation like this, it was a one-time payment to contributors, so if you'd like a copy, please email me at barribum@aol.com and request an autographed ...
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August 20, 2009
- What makes a difference? Watching Beyond the Gates, a film about the genocide in Rwanda that took place in 1994 with a group of Anglicans last night, I heard one of the lead characters, Joe, a teacher, tell a BBC reporter that he went to Africa “to make a difference.” He grew up privileged—with “everything.” Teaching in Rwanda was his way of “giving back.” Each day, he ...
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August 20, 2009
- http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1911633,00.htmlAn amazing book, especially the first one.The voice never lags, and goes on briskly in its honest and vivid manner.I think Angela's Ashes and Tis were originally one long autobiographical novel, and then were cut masterfully in half.The first one ends with "Tis."and the second one starts with "Tis." Think who can do ...
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