A running commentary on the thoughts, philosophy, ruminations, experiences, of a teacher in his thirty-eighth(and, most likely, last) year of teaching.
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I'm back... with the end of the story... finally.
So, we started to discuss "naughty" words (using euphemisms, of course)...and they pretended to be "shocked" that I knew those words, and I, in return, pretended to be shocked that they knew those...
So, as I was saying... on this Friday (first day of vocabulary study) I thought that I would call it FWW-Day instead of Friday. FWW would stand for Fun With Words (pronounced FWA-day)... and I meant it both as sarcasm and as a bit of a hint.
So, on...
Well,what do you know? Even teachers can have the "teachable moment." It happened to me.
On Friday I introduced vocabulary study to my juniors. I know that the approved (for this decade) manner for teaching vocabulary is teaching vocabulary in...
In my last post I mentioned the dreaded "Back-to-school" night. It seems to me that I have always thought of it as just one more onerous task that was necessary but terrifying and, a bit demeaning. Sort of like, "Look, Ma, that trained seal is...
