teaching
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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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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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10 Reasons I Hate Grading Your Assignment
10. You don’t double-space. You KNOW that I take formatting points off when you don’t double-space. Double-space does NOT mean space-and-a-half. We’ve discussed this. 9. Your printer ink is not black. You KNOW that I take formatting points off when you print in blue, purple or green. You also know that if your print is… Continue reading
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post #2 at School Gate: how I saved my teaching career
The second in my series of posts for School Gate, the TimesOnline education blog, is now up. The series is called “How I Saved My Teaching Career,” and this post’s topic is “Take Stock: Is Teaching Worth It?” Please go read and comment, and link/forward freely! The more attention these posts get, the happier the… Continue reading
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carnival of ed May 20
The Carnival of Education is up at The Education Wonks. Some especially interesting-looking titles: “The Link Between Bullying and Psychosis” “A Time for Teacher Reflection” “Yearbook Panic, Brown Bags, and Underwear” and of course, my own “Marta, Melanie and Mary: a screenplay epilogue” Go browse! I will be hosting the Carnival here next week –… Continue reading
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first I take the Times…
I am utterly, utterly stoked to announce that my first guest blogging gig is with School Gate, the TimesOnline (that’s right, folks, the Times of London) education blog. Sarah Ebner generously asked me to sign up. I’ll be writing a series of posts on overcoming teacher burnout and learning to love teaching again. You will… Continue reading
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getting one’s learn on: 100 inspiring posts
Learn-gasm, the blog for the website Bachelor’s Degrees Online, has posted “100 Incredibly Inspiring Blog Posts for Educators,” and they’ve included me in their list (specifically, my March post “Who Says You Have To Go To College,”, which they’ve listed in the category “Preparing Students for Life After High School.”) I’m looking forward to browsing… Continue reading
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will more school make us better people?
I’m concerned about President Obama’s assertion that children should spend more time in school. I absolutely disagree; I think children should spend a lot of time learning – in fact, I think they should spend all day, every day, learning, as should adults – but that “school” is only one, and not always the most… Continue reading
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this week’s carnival of education…
…is up at Bellringers. Go browse! Continue reading
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Watching a Fire; Skimming across Water; Painting a Dragon and Dotting its Eyes
I should be marking papers on this, the last day of my Easter weekend, but instead, I’m checking my Twitterific and being sucked into reading blog posts. Clay Burell at Change.org has posted this tantalizing bit of info from Richard E. Nisbett’s The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently . . .… 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 