It can be quite a discussion when negotiations come around. How much “prep” time do we allow teachers to have? How much “free” time should they get a week? How much time away from students do they really need each day? Regardless of how much time we teachers have during the school day, it is [...]
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I teach with some very talented people. Take the other teachers on my fourth grade team: one is a great artist, one is a pianist and singer and the other wows me at every staff meeting as she sketches boarders around her notes. And I think to myself, do their students know this about them??? [...]
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Over the past few months, I have become involved in two very powerful teaching communities: a PLC and a PLN. Both of these collaborative groups have changed my teaching in very positive ways, mostly because the premise behind each of them is to gain knowledge through other professional educators, AKA – US! The PLC (Professional [...]
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“A hundred years from now it will not matter what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had, nor what my clothes were like. But the world may be a little better because I was important in the life of a child,” by Forest E. Witcraft is a quote that most teachers [...]
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Tomorrow is Mothers’ Day and what better time to celebrate how many woman teachers, working women, share their lives and experiences with their students. (Don’t worry Dads, your day is coming too!) On a day such as this, I am reminded about how becoming a mom, made me a better teacher and how being a [...]
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I love Teacher Appreciation Week at my school. We are very fortunate to work in a place where parents value what we do. Not only do we receive gifts for our classrooms, but we get a wonderful luncheon – my favorite! Any day I don’t have to think about packing a lunch is a great [...]
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Teachers touch our lives! I bet you can think of one who made a difference in your life. Maybe they thought there was something great in you, gave you confidence in a talent you have or were just so cool, that you wanted to be just like him or her. For this post, I invite [...]
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I know it – we all strive to do it – to touch students’ lives: push them, challenge them, teach them, inspire them! We do great stuff. But how often do we have the chance to share our stories: the things we do innately? We teachers will often feel under appreciated, but we also need [...]
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