I would and I have bumped up kids a couple of tenths to get them a higher letter grade.
30 minutes. But they aren't super detailed and most of that time is gathering material and trying to figure out the common core standard they fit...
I have a major in English and a minor in history. I teach 7-10 (English and social studies). However, I as well as two other teachers in my...
I'm not saying that "smart" kids would not benefit from small classes because they would. I love my small classes. We can do so much more in terms...
Smart kids are going to do well regardless of class size. The kids who get left behind in a class of 32 sophomores are the kids who struggle....
@Sarge: I need to do that next time...just to torment them. I don't know how many of my freshmen came in the next hour asking where I'd gone for...
I'm going to one next week. I usually go to a three day geography one (75 dollars) but this year they were charging $75 per day and I didn't go...
I do the academic team and student council. Both have a small stipend. The athletic coaches get a bigger stipend. But quite frankly, the stipend...
I've told kids/classes before that they were beginning to annoy/irritate me. My seventh graders like to make random sounds. I don't know why. It...
My sister works outside of education but she is not allowed to give bad recommendations (per company policy) because they are afraid of getting...
It is my lunch. I'm in my room. My lights are off. My door is locked and I have a paper covering the little window. It's been a long day...
I don't. But that's because I don't like to be gone. I feel like I get behind when I'm gone and have to play catch up. I have to be gone 3 days in...
My feelings about her use of the word is not politically motivated. I would have felt the same if she had used the word in reference to Mitt Romney.
I don't let my kids in the classroom use retarded as an insult. And now I'm going to print off John Franklin Stephens response because he said it...
I think I need a business card. And then every time a kid tells me that he/she will just have her mom/dad call me, I can whip out the card with...
