education
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professional development meme 2009
I’ve been tagged by Tracy Rosen; thanks Tracy! This meme recently appeared on Clif’s Notes. Directions: Summer can be a great time for professional development. It is an opportunity to learn more about a topic, read a particular work or the works of a particular author, beef up an existing unit of instruction, advance one’s… Continue reading
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how I saved my teaching career part 4: finding community
The fourth installment in my series “How I Saved My Teaching Career” went up on School Gate, the TimesOnline’s education blog, today. This post is about finding one’s community in order feel supported. While you’re there, I’d encourage you to browse around the School Gate blog. Sarah Ebner is a terrific blogger (and very generous;… Continue reading
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using student blogs
Next semester, I’m going to teach a souped-up version of my Travel Literature course, and I’m interested in using student blogs as a major assignment. Here’s my idea: I’d like to organize my students into “blog circles” of 6-8 people, and have them keep individual blogs and respond to each other. I have two possible… Continue reading
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this week in carnival
This week’s Carnival of Education is up over at Scheiss Weekly. Some highlights: Joanne Jacobs on whether schooling until age 19 should be compulsory. Curriculum Matters on why streaming in middle schools is a problem. Teacher In a Strange Land on curmudgeons who complain about the school band. Scenes from the Battleground on end-of-year pandemonium. Continue reading
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same blog, new name
Brief administrative update: I’ve changed the title of this blog – or rather, I’ve shortened it to “classroom as microcosm” because, well, it’s shorter, and because people are having trouble spelling “Siobhan.” The url remains “siobhancurious.wordpress.com”. Am I going to be sorry I did this? Is it going to cause confusion/complications for readers/subscribers? I have… Continue reading
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What’s to Like about School?
Did you like school? (Or, if you’re a student now, do you?) I’m reading Daniel T. Willingham’s Why Don’t Students Like School? It’s totally readable and very interesting, and I’ll post a review when I’m done. (I’ve also joined a reading group to discuss it, over at Dangerously Irrelevant; if you’ve been wanting to pick… Continue reading
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carnival!
This week’s Carnival of Education is up over at Learn Me Good. Go read; there’s lots of people saying lots of important stuff, especially about these last days of school. Continue reading
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how I saved my teaching career part 3: take time off
The third post in my series “How I Saved My Teaching Career” is now up at SchoolGate, the TimesOnline’s education blog. Go check it out and leave some comments! I’d love to hear what you think. Continue reading
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Who Are Your Gurus?
This week has been an exercise in detachment. I’ve been grading very long and sometimes very difficult final papers, and in a moment of hair-tearing frustration, wrote the post 10 Reasons I Hate Grading Your Assignment. When it went up here and, especially, on my Open Salon blog, there was an outpouring of hilarity, with… Continue reading
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Carnival of Education #225
Welcome to Week 225 of the Carnival of Education! This is my first time hosting the Carnival. I’m excited, but like the rest of you, I am drowning in grading, so I haven’t had two brain cells to rub together this week. I tried to come up with a clever theme. You can imagine how… Continue reading
About Me
My job is to teach people to read and write; aside from that, I like to learn things.
Classroom as Microcosm 