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posted by: Larisa
| July 18, 2012, 09:13 am
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Teaching is about trial and error. As a teacher, you know that students learn differently and that a lesson plan that works for one student might not work for another. Through the years, you refine your technique by testing out various teaching strategies to discover what is and is not effective. Unfortunately, with trial and error comes the danger of BIG error, and, if that’s the case, we know the terror of big error – you might get fired, sued, or both.
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posted by: Larisa
| July 13, 2012, 12:41 pm
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Recently, someone told me that he had nightmares about triangles. As a former music teacher, I was really unsure why anyone would ever think about triangles so much that triangles were plaguing this person’s sleep. It occurred to me, however, that I sometimes think about music so much that my sleep is plagued with worry about perfectly analyzed tone rows. If I get music anxiety and I’m a music teacher, then it shouldn’t sound so weird that a person with math anxiety could have nightmares about triangles.
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posted by: Larisa
| June 22, 2012, 02:35 pm
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Every teacher knows that Rule #1 of running your classroom is to ensure that your students feel safe in their learning environment. Schools today aren’t the little slivers of utopia that they were once upon a time, when discipline problems were rare and abruptly handled. If we look at the schools of today through our “Negative Nancy” lenses, some might see bullies, repeat offenders of the school handbook, and, even, petty criminals lurking around every corner. What can a teacher do to foster a safer learning environment?
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posted by: Larisa
| June 20, 2012, 02:38 pm
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Let’s face it: your classroom behavior management plan is not as successful as you dreamed it would be. You meticulously slaved over developing and implementing a foolproof behavior management plan, yet your students somehow found the loophole. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it, but 25 fourth graders proved that you are the only fool in this “foolproof” behavior management plan.
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posted by: Larisa
| June 15, 2012, 03:32 pm
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As teachers, we can whine until the cows come home about “kids these days” and their general bad behavior. It’s so easy to shake our fists and exclaim, “Why aren’t parents teaching their kids to behave?” Teachers will go bonkers if they devote more energy to being frustrated about student behavior rather than being optimistic and pro-active about helping students to be better people.
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