180 Dayz

Comics for teachers by a teacher

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Teacher Shortage Solution?

Is lowering the bar of teacher qualifications the answer to the teacher shortage? Hells to da no!

How do we solve the teacher shortage crisis that has gripped our nation? Many have opted for the quick fix, and have begun to “lower the bar,” recruiting en mass inexperienced and unqualified people into the field of education as quickly as possible. However, anyone with experience in this field knows that such individuals will likely not make it through their first school year; with a great deal…

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Student Personalities on Zoom

Student Personalities on Zoom

Teaching virtually has been an “eye-opening” experience. I think I am finally getting acclimated to the various types of student personalities I have come across in my time teaching via Zoom. Here are just a few of the common ones I see in my daily teaching. I am sure you have had many of these in your online classes, as well as quite a few you could add to the list. Have a good one to share?…

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Virtual Teachings Toll

It’s undeniable, the effects of virtual teaching and learning are taking more than a toll on our social lives- it’s destroying our bodies! I used to come home from a day of teaching with sore feet from standing all day. Now a day of virtual teaching leaves me with strained eyes and a migraine from too much screen time. My posture is evolving to a slumped position, more suited for bending over a…

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Holiday Break During Pandemic? Here's to a Better New Year!

Holidays During Pandemic? Here's to a better New Year in 2021!

As I was talking with my students before the holiday break started, I came to realize just how different this vacation experience will be for them compared to my classes from the past. Instead of being able to gather with family and friends, most will have to stay home. Rather than being a time that is characterized by joy, many have experienced sorrow due to illness and death within their…

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Student Participation before vs during the pandemic

Student Participation before vs during the pandemic

Sorry haven’t put up a comic in a while, this virtual and hybrid teaching is way more work than I ever imagined. Taking a lesson and reformatting it so that it can be equally effective for students learning from home as well as those coming into the classroom is very challenging to say the least! This has been a challenging year for all: students, parents, teachers, administrators, etc. We are…

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Hybrid Learning Hype As some schools are beginning to welcome students back under the hybrid model, there's a lot of hype about how to preserve academics, but many are still left wondering.... Will it be safe?

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Coming Back to School During COVID

Coming Back to School During COVID

As the start of the school year approaches, the one question on everyone’s mind is whether it will be safe for students and staff to return to a physical classroom setting or not. Every district is scrambling to come up with a plan that will get students back into schools, while ensuring it can be done in a safe way that will not expose them to the risk of contracting COVID 19. However, this has…

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Kids rather be in school

Kids rather be in school

As an educator, if I got a nickel for every time a student told me they hated school and wanted to be home, I’d be a rich man; and that’s just one day! However, since COVID-19 forced schools across the land to shut their doors, sending students home to do their school work, the tide has now turned! Now I don’t go a day without hearing a student in one of my online classes telling me how much they…

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closed schools shed light on how hard teaching is

As schools are shut down due to the Coronavirus and students are sent home to learn, people are quickly discovering just have difficult and stressful a job of a teacher is (and that’s with their own kids as students!).

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Corona Closures Not A School Vacation With schools all over the nation (and world) closing to prevent the spread of the Corona Virus, somehow the learning must go on, contrary to what many students may think!

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Valentines Trick or Treat

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New Year Often Brings Changes Happy New Year everyone. Like most, I have taken some time to think about new dreams, goals, and visions I have for the new year and beyond.

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Class wants a treat, but gets a trick for Halloween As an educator, I'm not a big fan of Halloween, well, at least not while in the classroom.

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Teachers Reading List To prepare for the mental exhaustion (as well as mental anguish) one faces as an educator in a system that often does not support its professionals, and often undermines them, I have a few suggested must-reads for anyone thinking about entering the teaching profession. Take a look... You may have some of your own to add to this list. Leave a comment of your own suggestions!

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Teaching in your dreams For some, the school year has already began; for others, it's just a few days away. Either way, most educators have already been teaching for the past few days, or even weeks now, in the form of the "teacher dreams" (or nightmares) that haunt our sleep as the start of school approaches. Have a recurring teacher dream that plagues your sleep before the start of the school year? Share in the comment section, if you dare!

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Kid Free Summer One hundred and eighty days of teaching takes a toll on the soul. It's no wonder educators desperately look forward to summer break, when they get time revive and recharge. It also no wonder that sometimes teachers seek a summer of solitude, and often avoid the sight and sounds of kids at all costs!

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Teachers Enjoy Your Summer Brain Drain Well, we once again survived another school year! Now it's time to get some much needed summer break rejuvenation so we will be ready to go another round come September.