When they say the average American is stuck in traffic (i.e. not moving or moving slowly, not the total commute) commuting to work 38 hours per year (nearly double that if you hail from L.A.) it is nice to have a short trip. In fact, this is a trip that I could easily walk if […]
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Bleah. All weekend and no post to show for it. I could throw in a some edu-humor but I think you five readers would rather me put something substantial. Unfortunately it is too late in the evening for that. Besides, I really don’t have anything to post- Friday was uninteresting and I didn’t go to
Back to middle school, thankfully. Not many would actually say middle school is an improvement over younger grades, but it is over yesterday’s special needs preschool classroom. In any event, I mostly enjoy middle school though there are those days of course. Science was the subject, and will be tomorrow as well since this is
People who know me know that my preference for teaching is about 3rd-7th grades. Stretch a year in either direction, and those are pretty much the jobs I gravitate toward when I have a choice. Of course specials are an exception; I do take those no problem though they may include kindergarten or 1st grade.
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I’m too tired to blog today, so here are a few jokes off the ‘net. Hopefully tomorrow I will have a real post for you. Enjoy! A lesson about blood flow and circulation A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, he said: “Now, students,
7:15. That’s what time a sub has to be at the junior high schools (still called that even though they are on a middle-school system- I guess they didn’t want to change the letterheads 😛 ) in the district I was in today. That means being up before six. At least I had a solid
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I thought the passing mention of Mr. Gore’s inconvenient half-truth last post would be all I had to say on this topic. That was before I came across this little news item. Apparently Time magazine has took it upon themselves to compare global warming to World War II. And to do so, they took an
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Many times when a teacher’s absence is planned he or she will plan something even the most brainless substitute can handle. Often this is a test or book assignment. Other times, like today, it’s a video. Actually yesterday I showed a video in 5th grade, but that was only one half hour out of the
One thing about my life is that I don’t easily form relational ties, as in friends. This does make it easier to live on a substitute teacher salary since I don’t go to social events, but it does make for a boring life. I have strong ties with my church, particularly children’s ministry, but outside
When subbing for a regular classroom teacher in an elementary school one would expect to have the same class for at least most of the day, granting of course switching for math which is common in the intermediate grades. Aside from the start of the day and a very short time in the morning for
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