I work right by a large prison complex. At first, I thought I was dealing with the children of inmates. But as I started making phone calls home I...
What wears me down is the eye rolling, the rude tones, the nasty looks, and the smirks. I get so tired of being made fun of under their breath....
Yesterday, a girl came in yelling obscenities. Her iPod had been stolen. I sent her down to the office. A few minutes later the AP and two...
Somedays I think that my students were raised by wolves...
I see friends slap friends hard across the neck as a greeting. Girls punching boys in the arm as hard as they can. Boys knocking fists until their...
Start with Harry Wong's "First Days of School" and do it. Really, it would have saved my semester if I had really done what Harry suggested. Ask...
Take a deep breath. The first thing your students need is not curriculum but classroom behavior. My co-op teacher spent TWO WEEKS on procedures...
I just started teaching and I have never taught elementary but the one thing that has taken me for surprise is how childish high school kids are....
Depends on the school and the students. Some of my students ask about their papers but most do not. I stopped grading every paper because several...
Calm only because I am stuffed full of chocolate. It has been a hard six months and a rough way to start a teaching career. My students are...
Abuse, abuse, and more abuse. My kids are as good as gone if you let them out that door! Seriously, I make bathroom passes and give them out to...
I had to make special passes just to stop all this foolishness with the bathroom and the nurse. My students get a strip of 5 passes per month. I...
Hello, A week before Spring Break, I was told I would not have my contract renewed. The rest of the staff found out last week who would go and...
Right now teachers are getting laid off right and left. What now? Science teachers are getting pink slips! Just last year schools were screaming...
I have a friend that is leaving teaching because of her kindergarten class. So it's not just high school...
Good question. I send students to other classrooms from time to time. I had one kid calling out quiz answers, so I had him pack up and go take the...
One intern that I worked with wore skin tight clothes and low rise pants with high heels. Wow, the high school kids had trouble getting anything...
I have been on Spring Break for 2 weeks. I go back on Monday. I have been teaching 3 months at a high school. I teach 9th grade students Earth...
I did ask and the P said that I had been heard making derogatory statements about the students, he said the AP told him that I have been doing...
I like your interpretation of the situation, it is hopeful and inspires me to do better. My AP told me I was not going to be renewed and so did...
