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Teaching stories: September 18

9/18/2018

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Let’s talk….tedium. Because - and this may come as a shock (to nobody) - teaching isn’t always glamorous. Today, I present…Picture Day Doldrums.

Actually, I may have preferred doldrums. It was more like this: - I arrive at school to see many kids in nice shirts and dresses, cowboy boots and curled hair. They look angelic and I my heart warms at the wonder of working with such lovely children. - I start my first class and we hit a rhythm early on and then…oh, then, we leave for the gym. The walk over is uneventful, but then we walk into the gym and the kids start getting - weird. They start - shoving and pushing each other off the benches and running around and screaming and then I have to use my TEACHER VOICE which is easily one octave lower than normal and I puff out my 4’11.5” frame and I’m pretty sure I breathed fire, too. - And on the walk back? Some kids tell one kid to jump on another kid’s back and she does and they both land on the ground and then a different child was mad-offended-angry-bored-doldrummy - actually, I’m not sure - but she runs out of the classroom and away away away while I called an admin to run run run after her. - That was funny.

I won’t bore you, dear reader, with the happenings of my afternoon class except to say - I may have turned a couple of children to stone with my TEACHER LOOK when I turned to see one boy holding another boy like a plank and spinning him round and round.

The good bad news - other teachers had a similar day. When we suffer, we suffer together. That helps.
But all this chaos inspired this idea — let’s have an all-selfie yearbook!!!! Kids take their own pic and text it to the yearbook club (who are Angels themselves) and that’s it! DONE! I mean, yearbook pics in which kids have puppy dog ears and stars coming out of their ears.....come on!

#dowegetpaidenoughforthis?
#yeah,it’sjusticedteainmyinsulatedtumbler,dammit
#that’swhyIstoppedatthemarketforpieonthewayhome

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  • About
    • Contact
  • Think Global - Svalbard
    • The Polar Bear Express
  • Vamos Explorar!
    • Background and Inspiration
    • The Geo-Inquiry Process >
      • Student Blog Posts
    • Expeditions into New Mexico Wilderness Areas
    • Content and Curriculum Resources
  • Think Global - Finland
    • Introduction
    • Education in Finland
    • International Expressions of Global Education >
      • Global Education Concepts and Definitions
    • Case Study: Global Education in Finland >
      • Global Education Initiatives Timeline
      • Themes of Global Education in Finland
    • Curriculum Development >
      • Resources for Teachers
      • Finland Blog
    • Gratitude and Dedication
  • Think Global - Germany
    • Teach Global - Germany
  • Think Global - Colombia
    • Journal
    • Think Global Resource Guide >
      • Essential Question
      • Standards Based Global Education
      • Global Education Unit: American Indians and Indigenous Peoples of the World – Past, Present and Future
      • Digital Learning Environment Inventory
      • Local Resource Guide
      • Global Education Unit: Being American: An examination of the struggle for civil liberties for historically disenfranchised groups of Americans
      • Global Education Student Assessment Tools Inventory
      • International Project -Based Learning Opportunities
      • TGC Teacher Blogs
  • Teach Global
    • Think Global - Peru >
      • Virtual Field Trip to Peru >
        • Tasty Peru Tour
      • Peru Teacher Resources
    • Virtual Field Trip to Pakistan
    • Social Justice Heroes from Across the Americas
    • Global Leadership Odyssey Project: Introduction Videos to Students in Cartagena, Colombia
    • Colombia Lessons and Presentations
    • Schools Around the World
    • Ancient China
    • iEARN Global Learning Circle - Spring 2014
  • Chaco Canyon Trek 2018
  • Non-clickable Page