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- Magic Words: the Power of Journaling in My Students’ Lives
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Note to Self:
Read this whenever you don’t feel like going to the gym. Yes, exercise is laborious, time-consuming, boring, and a general pain in the butt. HOWEVER. Exercise… 1. Melts away the inches. Your clothes will loosen up and you can still … Continue reading
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Tagged exercise, exercising, fitness, gym, Health, personal health, working out
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Groundhog Day
I’m feeling like a groundhog at the moment. It’s like I’ve been in a deep, dark hole for the past five–well actually, the past seven years of teaching. I’ve taught 13 different subjects, and each year I’ve been in survival … Continue reading
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Why I’m (still) a teacher
Teaching is difficult and wearisome; sometimes it’s downright painful. It’s a lot of work and little thanks. No one sees the hours you put in grading at home or appreciates the awesome lesson plans you spent your weekend putting together. … Continue reading
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Tagged classroom, end of school, graduating, graduation, job, rewarding, school, senior, seniors, students, teacher, teachers, teaching, thanks, work
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Please Tell Me You’re Joking
I assigned a persuasive essay to my composition class that included some research. I walked the students through each step. I conferenced with each of them about their topics, but apparently a few of them decided to switch at the … Continue reading
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Seeing stars…
This is a follow up to a post I wrote a while back called “Identity Crisis” (read that post here). I wrote in that post that I didn’t have ideas for my thesis and it was causing me to question my … Continue reading
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Happy Mmmm…ental Health Day
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. It’s a hard day for me for two reasons: 1. I live really far away from my mom and can’t afford to see her more than once a year. 2. I can’t have kids. Mother’s Day … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Teaching
Tagged children, infertility, infertility awareness day, mental health, Mom, moms, mother's day, parents, students, teacher, teaching
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My Second New Year
I love working in cycles; it’s one of the rarely-acknowledged perks of being a teacher. My job changes with each season, and every year represents something started and finished, rather than a endless pile of tasks that perpetually regenerate. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged break, change, job, new leaf, new year, new year's resolutions, teaching, thriving, work
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The Notebook: Making the Tedious Tolerable by Blogging My Snarky Comments
The other day, one of my composition students found out that I had never seen The Notebook, and she was appalled. I had been deprived, she claimed, and she insisted on loaning it to me to watch. She was so … Continue reading →