My dad, a teacher for 33 years, told me he remembers going to a PD conference and hearing this joke: “If you ever had to thaw out a person that was cryogenically frozen 100 years ago, but you didn’t want to give them a big shock, you should bring them around inside a classroom.” I laughed and…
I avoid giving homework – like the plague. I’m an ESL teacher and I know my students have enough on their plate just keeping up with the homework given by their classroom teachers. This is why I don’t give homework on top of their regular homework. In fact, I spend the first quarter of each…
Jeff is tired of the word ‘integrate’ and I don’t blame him. It’s all I’ve been focusing on for the past month and it’s starting to ‘grate’ on my nerves too. (Oh that’s bad.) I agree with Jeff that the word is so overused, it seems to have lost a proper meaning. However, when Jeff…