I Am a Teacher [image] Saw My Teacher on a Saturday..... I think every teacher has experienced this at least once. My students are completely taken back when they see me in public...and they always ask where my co-teacher is as they believe we must always be...See More »
Glad England conquered North America and not France or SpainBecause my English is very good but my Spanish and French not so much.
Favor paddling students?Yes or no to chastise disruptive or misbehaving students. What are your guidelines if in favor.
French teacher beheaded by Islamist for showing Mohammad cartoons in classhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-54573356 Honor and respect to him for teaching his students about freedom of speech. We do not realise what kind of monsters we are allowing into our societies.
First week of Covid schoolyearIt has been much less chaotic than I expected. Teachers are quite overwhelmed by workload and all the covid procedures we had to learn in almost no time, but not afraid. Students are acting in a quite responsible way, assuming masks, disinfection and...See More »
How do you feel about coming back to work?I wonder how fellow teachers who have already come back to work or about to feel about it. Here students will come back to school on September 10th. It looks like in order to make smaller groups, secondary students will go one day to class and take...See More »
Comeback to the classroomI, like most teachers, am quite concerned about the comeback to classrooms (here in early September). We see that realistic plans are not implemented by our educative authorities, who are unwilling both to rack their brains to find solutions and to...See More »
I Am a TeacherI have been teaching for 22 years and, due to coronavirus outbreak, lessons have been cancelled for the first time for two weeks. Let's see how the online teaching is. Who knows, in the end I may even open a Youtube channel.
I Am a Teacher Was. I have left the job for half a year now. Every day now, I give thanks for this time I have now. I worked for over twenty years as a school teacher. I remember the hours I put in. At one time early in my career, I was teaching for the first...See More »
I Am a TeacherI just took a glance at the 2019 PISA report. A really worrying conclusion is that students' ability to tell opinions from data is decreasing. The country showing the biggest improvement is...China. More evidence of how the future looks like.
I Am a TeacherDuring one of my lessons, a student asked my opinion about a teacher who had lost a bunch of exams. I answered him that anyone can make a mistake, and if that happened to me (fortunately it has never happened so far), I would give each student...See More »
I Am a TeacherThis week,while talking to a colleague at school, we were approached by another teacher. She told us 'I just wanted to say goodbye to you. Today is my last working day'. We were quite surprised. We had no idea she was going to retire. Later that...See More »
I Am a TeacherOne of the moments I fear most in schoolyear is the day when I have my first meeting with my department colleagues (who more often than not change every year), and we must take decisions regarding the subject we are going to teach, materials,...See More »
I Am a TeacherOn Monday a new schoolyear starts. The main change for me will be that I will be teaching Econs to Sec4 students in English for the first time. It is quite challenging, and I feel excited about it. But at the same time it is triggering some fears...See More »
I Am a Teacher When my student visited me yesterday and I told her that I observe that it is often the quiet ones who remember their teachers, she gave a self deprecating laugh and said 'yes, I'm a little weird'. I love this girl. She used to be so quiet but she...See More »
I Am a TeacherIt hurts my heart to see one of my brilliant biology students mess a 4 mark question up, just because she got one of the pair of alleles wrong for a dihybrid cross 😢