The Los Angeles Times (via This Week in Education) reported a disturbing trend among our student today — “teacher baiting.” The object? To see if you can make a teacher mad enough to explode, secretly tape the teacher with a cell phone, then post the resulting clip to YouTube. If it is unclear that “teacher…
I read “Forever Young” (registration required) by Steven Drummond in Teacher Magazine with interest. Sadly, I think most of us have worked with a permutation of this guy: [A]fter watching the grizzled American history teacher for an hour, I saw why the girl had asked me [to be her teacher]. He’d been on the job…
One of the persons who commented on the article I submitted to English Journal was interested in learning more about my experiences as a non-Jewish teacher working at a Jewish high school. I decided not to go there because it would have detracted from the article’s purpose. I think I mentioned the fact that I…
Her name was Kia. It actually took me a few days to remember that, though I have never forgotten her face. What made me remember her name? I recalled that at the time I taught her, I had associated her name with a fledgling car company. Then I remembered. I was a first year teacher….
Some of you might remember I took a Schools Attuned course last summer. I am still working on my practicum. I decided to complete the practicum online due to time and travel consideration. Once I complete my practicum and portfolio, I will earn CEU credits. I just completed the third of six practicum sessions today….
Are any of you going to see Freedom Writers? I just sent an e-mail to my department head asking if she’d like to go see it with me this weekend. I wasn’t sure if she had heard of the movie (I hadn’t until a couple of days ago), so I enclosed the IMDb link for…
I obtained my first teaching certificate in 1997 upon my graduation from UGA. I taught for one year at Twiggs County Comprehensive High School and then for three years at Warner Robins High School in Middle Georgia. Upon relocating to North Georgia, I did not immediately find a teaching job. I did find a temporary…
Education Week recently had an article about challenged books (subscription only). I have never had any problems with parents disagreeing with reading selections I ask their child to read. One thing that seems clear to me after reading the article is that it might not be a bad idea for our department to come up…
My tribute to Eric Andrew Lehrfeld, who perished in the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center, is posted at my personal blog. If you have the time, please read it and reflect upon a life cut too short — one among 2,996.
An article in today’s AJC discusses UGA‘s growing intolerance of the university’s reputation as a “party school.” A week into the new semester, as students hit the bars as well as the books, it’s clear how tough it could be to change a social culture critics say is built around booze. First, came articles on…
