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@teachingoccasionally
Is it okay to ask why you like bees so much? I think it’s cool honestly, so cool in fact I’d love to know the meaning behind it.
Yes! My fiancé and I make mead (honey wine). Bees and hexagons have become kind of a thing for us. 😍
This might be on brand for you https://www.bluboho.com/collections/sweetness-collection
School starts in a week and I still can't get into my classroom lol
Thinking of starting each class with a high-five, a hug, a fist-bump, or a handshake as the kids walk in the door.
….yay or nay? What’s The Discourse™️ on that, educhums?
(please keep in mind I’m a very tall, very wide, bearded man)
No hugs. Fist bumps or high fives are fun, but handshakes invoke a sense of maturity in older grades. Depends on what kind of mood you'd like to set/how old the students are. I end up at a new school every year and never know their names, so I like doing something like this to get to know them as they come in on the first day.
Okay, the question I’m about to ask is going to be the most dated thing to ever come out of my brain. I will age 20 years just from asking this.
Do kids nowadays make playlists for each other? Like.. My laptop doesn’t even have a disk drive. So they’re probably not burning CDs.
Cuz I was just thinking that there are some people I might actually kill if it meant I could magically find all of the CDs friends burned for me in the past, especially from high school. And then I thought that kids today won’t have that problem because the Cloud/Reptilian Lizard Majesty will just store the (assumed) playlists they make for each other forever. Maybe on the last day of classes this semester I will turn to the CHILD next to me and ask them and then hopefully never see them again.
They do, but they share them on Spotify. One kid in my class made their friend a breakup playlist full of uplifting songs after they got dumped.
Behaviour management question: what are your thoughts on sweat the small stuff and prevent the big stuff (however that saying goes) vs ignore as many behaviours as possible. We had a new prin come in midway through last year (we work on a calendar year), and initially she told me to sweat more of the small stuff (lining up, not letting kids call out etc.) but by the end she basically told me to ignore everything (yelling, running around the classroom etc.) until it REALLY escalated. Any advice?
Hey Anon, This is a toughie…
Full disclosure, I myself deal with this line every day. The fact that your admin is giving you very different instructions in the same year is concerning. It reads to me like they are losing control of the building, but that’s just me.
Frankly, I don’t think there is one specific answer for this, and I think your mileage may vary depending on the school climate, the student, the parental support…etc. Other edchums may have way better responses to this, I’m sorry I’m not very helpful on this one, it’s just something I’m working on, too.-WCT
At the beginning of the year, I sweat the small stuff big time. It sets a precedent that I'm not going to put up with any nonsense and sets high expectations. As the year progresses, I sweat the small stuff less because those expectations have been set and enforced for some time already. Every so often, I'll pick at the small stuff just to keep them on their toes and remind them of the routines and rules established at the beginning of the year. By being a hardass at the beginning, I find the rest of the year goes much smoother and I only really have to deal with bigger problems because the small ones don't happen often (and are usually self- or peer-corrected).
I got into this habit because administration a few years back was totally unsupportive, as were many parents in the community. Many of my students came from very unstructured home lives, and I felt that by creating very clear classroom routines, policies, and structure, I was creating some stability that wasn't present in many homes. Students knew exactly what their roles were and what to expect from me.
bilingual education. what are your thoughts about it? ☺️
This is an odd question. It’s….good? It’s more inclusive and opens doors and access to education for students who might otherwise not have it?
What kind of answer am I supposed to have to this?
I teach in a French immersion school. The FI students can't read well in English (I'm talking both decoding and comprehension) or French, have poor verb conjugation skills in French, and generally have to work harder to achieve academic success, which can actually be alienating for students with learning challenges. So while there are definite benefits to being in a bilingual program, it is certainly not without its problems.
Hey teachers!
How do y’all* teach allusions?
The 8th grade CCSS states:
“Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new.”
Which is all fine and jim-dandy, except I have a NUMBER of students who have no knowledge of the Bible. And, when you blow past the whole minefield of teaching bible stories in a public education setting, how do you decide which ones matter?
Aside from that, my kids miss BASIC idiom and allusion stuff because there is just so little background knowledge (even kids at grade level in reading; the references are just more and more outdated!) Now, I could get petty and say “well what are the 1st/2nd/3rd/4th/5th/6th/7th grade teachers even TEACHING?!” But I don’t think that’s the problem.
tl:dr, what do? thanks.
-WCT
*y’all is a gender-neutral term, I’m not a southern belle.
It doesn't sound like the reference has to be from the Bible, or any religious text. It says "or". Pick something your students are going to relate to. I'd personally ignore the religion piece altogether, since I'm not comfortable teaching that type of content and there are other types of texts (myths, fairytales) through which the students can find an entry point. (For example, analyze the evil stepmother trope in Harry Potter with the Dursleys).
Positive classroom affirmations?
Does anyone use a daily affirmation with their students (could be school wide/with your classroom/or personal student affirmations)?
Bonus points if it is with middle schoolers.
I have my grade 7s write Affirmations to each other. I usually do this once a week, or more often if there's tension in the classroom. Each kid has a notebook and they're distributed to the class at random. I tell them to write something positive -- anything -- that's at least two lines. It can be anonymous or signed. Then the notebooks are handed to me and I hand them back to the kid it belongs to. Once they've read the message, in the back of their book they write the date and name of the student whose book they wrote in, since my rule is that they cannot write in the same book twice until they've gone through everyone in the class. When I first start this with a group, I follow up with a circle discussing how they felt to receive a positive message, and if it makes a difference that it was anonymous or signed. Once they get used to it, I do follow-up circles more infrequently.
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Doctor… I smell burnt toast!
If only school was going on, I’d bombard my class with all these… nah, it’s summer time!
Hope everyone has a great Canada D’eh!
Dusting off this ol' meme, but:
Shout to all of my Chicago Public School peeps! We made it!
Relevant to me today
I want summer so bad I don't know if I can make it
When the four day weekend is over
an incomplete list of unsettling short stories I read in textbooks
the scarlet ibis
marigolds
the diamond necklace
the monkey’s paw
the open boat
the lady and the tiger
the minister’s black veil
an occurrence at owl creek bridge
a rose for emily
(I found that one by googling “short story corpse in the house,” first result)
the cask of amontillado
the yellow wallpaper
the most dangerous game
a good man is hard to find
some are well-known, some obscure, some I enjoy as an adult, all made me uncomfortable between the ages of 11-15
add your own weird shit, I wanna be literary and disturbed
The Tell-Tale Heart, The Gift of the Magi, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County, Thank You Ma'am
the box social by james reaney. i remember we all had to silently read it in class, and you would hear the moment everyone reached the Part because some people would audibly go “what”
wHat did I just put my eyes on
“The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury
Not quite a short story, but read in class: “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” from The Twilight Zone
Harrison Bergeron, Cat and the Coffee Drinkers
“Where are you going and where have you been” by Joyce carol oates
“The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury
the lottery by shirley jackson
i can’t believe Roald Dahl’s “The Landlady” wasn’t already mentioned and also it’s not so much unsettling as more absurdist but “The Leader” by Eugene Ionesco definitely made me go wtf
Ett halvt ark papper. I cried so much.
Ночь у мазара, А. Шалимов
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby, by Donald Barthelme
We read lots of good disturbing shit in hs or in the writing groups I joined in hs but somehow the top of the heap for shit that haunted me’s still indisputably Ethan Canin’s “The Palace Thief”. It’s not horror as such but it freaked me the fuck out.
There was another O. Henry short story we read that was also really alarming but I had to google a major spoiler (which is also a warning) to recall the name – “The Furnished Room”.
there will come soft rains by bradbury was very unsettling for middle school me
I had no idea so many were all written by Ray Bradbury, why did he do this to us
“Emergency” by Dennis Johnson – not entirely disturbing but really weird and there’s one Bad Part
“A Small, Good Thing” by Raymond Carver – again not all that bad but sad and kind of creepy
Ray Bradbury is a master of the unsettling short story, and for a couple years in high school, I wanted nothing more than be able to write like him.
Reblogging for my future short story unit
Today I took on organising our school's track and field meet since literally no one else would do it (I wanted to but not BY MYSELF). Additional stressors include: our school does not have a track or pits so I need to arrange to take all the grade 4-8 kids to the nearby high school (but not nearby enough to walk so also busing will be required) for tryout day; I have never run track and field before; I have never attended an official meet before; I am brand new to this school and have no idea of how this school organises their tryout day. I love track and field but I mean, kill me now.
Positive Narration?
My principal wants me to utilize more positive reinforcement in my teaching. Example phrases like “I really like how Dave, Bethany and Max are working…” Stuff like that.
I KNOW that this is nothing new for teachers. But I am struggling. My upbringing wasn’t very “outward expressions of positivity”, it was more “no news is good news.” Plus, it sounds SO FAKE to me; I teach 8th graders, are they likely to respond to this kind of obvious scripting?
Edchums, how did you find your style? How do I incorporate this in a way that doesn’t feel super forced and fake?
I thank students. For example, "thanks Jimmy for getting ready quickly." "Thanks Sally for making sure your books are out." It's more personal and less scripted, but still positively reinforcing what I want from everyone. I also thank students more privately for things I appreciate ("thanks for staying in to clean that up") so it suits my style.
The busiest and widest highway in the world is in Ontario, Canada
Source
Is that the fucking 401
That is the fucking 401
Of course it’s the fucking 401
The god damn
motherfucking
401
You got somewhere to be?
Too bad you’re not getting there.
The 401 is where they weed out the weak. You don’t drive on the 401 to get somewhere. You do it for the challenge. You do it to test your abilities like some Uchiha clan shit. Rush hour 401 is the breaking point between heaven and earth. Are you going to descend into a Lovecraftian hell or reach Nirvana? You will double the size of your biceps death-gripping your steering wheel. There is no time for rest or pulling off over into an exit. Bodily functions shut down. Cars on the side of the road and crashes closing lanes are a constant reminder that you are driving the razor’s edge. Death is mere seconds away at any given moment. They’re always doing construction but nothing is ever finished. It’s a constant roadblock for the hell of it. This is the Dark Souls 2 of Canadian driving. git good or get out
And that’s just normal mode. Have fun in the six-month long Ontario winter and enter some top-tier level of highway driving.
EVO2015. EVO2018.
I heard that babies are born on the 401, grow up on the 401, and take over for their parents as driver of the family car on the 401
What the fuck.
This is literally a right of passage as Ontario driver. You don’t truly drive until you can drive on the 401. I’m not even exaggerating.
The fucking 401. Had to drive on the fucking 401 only 2 days after getting my first car, a week of having my licence. Got boxed in by like six 18-wheelers and nearly caused a 20 car pileup squeezing my way between them just trying to get off at my exit.
What kind of fresh hell is this??
Who designs a road this way? Are you okay Canada?????
The most terrifying thing I have ever seen
is that like a quarter of the canadian population.
Christ why CANADA
Imagine most of your life just being THIS DAMN HIGHWAY because your dad is in the military and is stationed on ONE end of the 401 and AAAAALL of your family is located at the OTHER END of the 401… Imagine this for 17 years… That’s more than half my life.
Fuck the 401 😂😂
No wonder yalls healthcare is free..it’s because of this…isn’t it?
My son drives this to work everyday. An hour down the 400 to get to it and then the 401 to his job every day. It’s the same highway we traveled regularly to see our daughter in Quebec. It’s just part of life.
I'm on the 401 every day.
Every. Damn. Day.
Recap of my March Break so far: -got an amazing massage -saw Book of Mormon -celebrated a friend's 30th birthday -went to Tuesday wing night -did a lot of marking and still haven't marked everything -got a tattoo -spent way too much money on doTERRA (btw Deep Blue is doing wonders for my back right now and Serenity is heaven) and Saje products (Rainforest blend 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼💯💯💯) -tried a new class at the gym and liked it, will go back -played lots of video games -hung out with my dog So all in all, a solid staycation, 10/10 would recommend
