guest blogging
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How I Saved My Teaching Career: Step 7: Write a Blog
This is the final post in a series on how to overcome burnout and love teaching again. See the end of this post for previous entries. In the summer of 2007, my burnout reached its peak. I’d taken some steps to deal with it (and you can check out the links below to read… Continue reading
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how I saved my teaching career: final post: keeping a blog
The final post in my summer-long guest series on School Gate, the TimesOnline education blog, appeared this morning. In this post, I explain how keeping a blog made me a better, and more sane, teacher. Thank you all so much for reading and commenting on these posts, and emailing me your thoughts! I loved blogging… Continue reading
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how I saved my teaching career part 7: meditate!
The penultimate post in my series “How I Saved My Teaching Career” appeared on School Gate this morning. In this post, I describe how learning to meditate made me a better teacher. Continue reading
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changing the world one comment at a time
Some of my Twitter contacts (particularly Shelley S. Terrell, or @ShellTerrell, who keeps the great blog Teacher Reboot Camp) have been encouraging me to sign up for the “One Comment a Day” project. This project was developed by Andrew Marcinek, who posts about it here. The premise: once a day, leave a constructive comment on… Continue reading
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Dear Auntie Siobhan #7: Helicopter Parent. Help!
My final guest post at Change.org’s education blog went up this morning. Today: what do I do when my (college) student’s parent won’t leave me alone? Big thanks to Clay Burell for inviting me to guest blog this week while he’s moving to Singapore and writing a (no doubt fabulous) book. “Dear Auntie Siobhan” will… Continue reading
About Me
My job is to teach people to read and write; aside from that, I like to learn things.