DISCLAIMER: This blog post is more of a personal essay. Imagine you are sitting down with me over some iced tea chatting face-to-face. These experiences, opinions, and stories are my own and TPT did not ask me to write this disclaimer. I wrote it because race is often a sore subject but if I appeal […]
Category Archives: Class Culture
4 tips on how to handle a disrespectful student
How do you handle a disrespectful student? Here are some tips on how to handle that student. What do you do when a student insinuates in front of the whole class that you are looking at his crotch? Disrespect comes with the territory. Teaching is not for the faint of heart. What are the best […]
Trasketball & How to get students to stop flying paper balls
How to Play Trasketball I did not make this up! In fact, I am super late to the game. Trasketball has been around for centuries, maybe. Mrs. E teaches plays it like this. Another person plays it like this. If you google “trasketball” you’ll be sure to find a ton of other ways to review also! […]
What to get your child’s teacher for the holidays
2017 Holiday gift guide for teachers BY a teacher PSA: STOP BUYING US COFFEE MUGS. Yes most of us have huge caffeine addictions, no we don’t need you to feed it. Your kids do enough of that. Now that it’s off my chest let’s begin. You want to get your child’s teacher a gift for […]
Classroom Novelties
Fun stuff for your classroom! If you’re made of money, like most teachers are, you probably spend all your tons of money decorating your classroom with fun stuff just to add a little umph to the school day! We get a fortune, :::lots of sarcasm implied:::, to buy things for our rooms here in good old South […]
Can you appreciate a wrong answer?
When did being wrong become a bad thing? You’re up in the front of the class laying down your best (insert subject topic here) teaching. You ask a higher order thinking question, the kind from the top of the pyramid that you learned about in college, and all of a sudden it’s so quiet you […]
How to setup your classroom without using rows (and keep your sanity)
I LOVE the U, and I am not talking about the Miami Hurricanes. If you’re like me then you think the idea of putting your students in groups is cute but in reality a nightmare and you only do it when you know administration is doing walk throughs. You have probably tried different set ups […]
School Swag: Can upping your wardrobe make a difference in the classroom?
This post was fun! Look out for more, but a few disclaimers: I’m sucking my tummy in during all these photos. Taking pictures of myself makes me feel SO VAIN. Below you will find a compilation of five outfits worn during the first two weeks of school. The plan was to document all ten outfits […]
How to recover after you’ve wounded a student
Promise me you won’t look at me any differently after you’ve read these stories? Almost every person I know has a horror story from their school days about a teacher. If my students kept therapy jars, in general they’d be empty (okay maybe not empty, maybe they’d each have a nickel or two because of […]
3 Things to get your students used to in week 1
I always skip past the thoughtful intro to a blog post and go right to the meat. I’ll do you a favor and cut loose the pleasantries. I noticed I was intentionally getting my students used to three things in week one and here they are: Being wrong- This nonsense about protecting the student’s ego […]
