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Motivational Folder
Teaching is notorious for being a stressful and difficult job for newcomers. I don’t remember where I read the suggestion to keep a “Motivational Folder,” but it seems like a good one. The idea behind it is that a teacher would populate this folder with pieces of inspirational or motivational objects from teaching. For example, [...]
Methods Recap, Part 1
The first semester of every education student’s senior year at my university is spent in the “methods block,” or “methods,” for short. It basically consists of four classes and a placement at a high school or middle school. Time is spent between attending classes and attending the assigned field site. At first, we go to [...]
Wow, I’m Losing It.
Wow.
I just typed up a whole post about the student critiques I collected last week.
You may notice that I alread wrote about that. Wow.
I’m losing it already.
Student Critiques
At the end of class yesterday, I had students complete the following sentences on a piece of paper they turned in to me:
“One thing I enjoy about the way you teach is…” and, “Two things I think you could do better are…”
I compiled the data and opened each class today with my findings. The most [...]