Teaching in the Trenches

Some initial thoughts…
I have been informed by Aaron that it has been some time since I last posted, and have also been feeling that nagging in the back of my own brain.
The truth is that I have been put off by blogging lately due to formatting bugs. I have known for some time the merits [...]

Some Blog Encouragement

  A few posts and comments have been sticking out in my mind lately: things that I wish had been told to me about a year ago when I first entered the arena of teaching. The first comes via Graham Wegner who pointed to a post entitled “Surviving Year One in the Classroom Without Sabotaging [...]

Chasing Dragons…

It was a night tide; and soon after we went to bed, My Peggotty and Ham went out to fish. I felt very brave at being left alone in the solitary house, the protector of Em’ly and Mrs. Gummidge, and only wished that a lion or a seprent, or any ill-disposed monster, would make an [...]

The Demise of the Red Pen…

So I come into work a couple days ago with my well-worn travel mug full of fairly traded coffee and do a bit of that work that just piles up on your desk reinforcing student notions that
1) you are a hermit,
2) you are a messy hermit, and
3) all you do is mark things.
When I finally [...]

Real Teaching Means Being Quiet (Sometimes)…

I know, I know…I just wrote my manifesto of change, of breaking out of the confines of edu-centric blogging, but what is the next post? Aha…edu-centric (I really am liking that verbage…). Ironic, isn’t it?
I just read a great post around the idea of marking, entitled “Readerly Comments� . It reaches out [...]