Posts Tagged ‘teach’
Teaching is full of unexpected surprises
One billion years ago, I taught a third grader named Kaity to multiply. Last night, as Elysha and I were leaving for a Moth StorySLAM in Somerville, I asked Kaity, now an adult and frequent babysitter to our children, to help my third grade daughter with her multiplication homework. It was surreal. No one ever…
Read MoreTeachers: Stop commenting, positively or negatively, on your student’s physical appearance. It’s only hurting them.
As an elementary school teacher, I have made it my policy for more than a decade to avoid commenting on a student’s physical appearance. A student’s appearance should be the last thing of concern to a teacher, but more importantly, these comments, even when positive, can be damaging and hurtful to kids. This policy has…
Read MoreIf I was able to choose my children’s teachers, this is what I would want more than anything else.
If I were allowed to choose the teachers for my children, I would almost always choose the teachers with the greatest variation of life experience. Give me a teacher who has dug ditches in Nicaragua, survived an encounter with a grizzly bear, panhandled across Europe, or spent ten years working in the private sector over…
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