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Mysterious Teaching

Insights behind the perils of being a teacher

November 2009 - Posts

  • The Omega Leaf

    If you were the last leaf on the tree, how would you feel? Would you be happy that you lasted longer than your friends? Would you be sad that all your friends were gone? How would you feel? Taste? Smell? Hear? Touch? My students felt happy they were the Read More...
    Posted Tuesday, November 24, 2009 12:09 PM by MysteryTeacher | 3 Comments

  • Perilious Plights

    Let's face it...Teaching is scary. Sometimes it is even dangerous, but it is always scary. Here I am in my 23rd year of teaching and we are making plans and practicing for disastrous events. We have a "lock-down" procedure (both soft- where you lock the Read More...
    Posted Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:59 AM by MysteryTeacher | 1 Comments

  • The last is first and the first is last...

    I give a test in reading every 7th day. That is how our district wants it. Otherwise we would finish the book too soon. (Like we aren't smart enought to use literature.) Anyway, I give the test every 6th day because I prefer to have a day to practice Read More...
    Posted Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:23 AM by MysteryTeacher | 1 Comments

  • I don't want to and you can't make me!

    "I don't want to and you can't make me!" I am so tired of teachers who have this attitude. One teacher told me that before anyone could make her write the ILLP she is supposed to do on her ELD student, she would go back to Canada to teach. I said, "Sounds Read More...
    Posted Thursday, November 05, 2009 12:17 PM by MysteryTeacher | 3 Comments

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