It is a consistent relief, to plan lessons for elementary school aged children, knowing that I am permitted to foreground morality as an influential element to literature. More precisely, I need not worry and fret over whether I personally appear to be supporting a moral take-away. I need not agonize over how not to reveal…
Tag: Teaching
Removing the transactional nature from a relationship allows for a free exchange.
It has been interesting to learn how very positively people remember their elementary school library experience. Without exception, each person to whom I’ve mentioned my new employment proves to be equal parts enthusiasm and nostalgia, primarily recalling school libraries as bastions of encouragement in a place that felt safe. These reactions certainly reflect the reasons…
Basically
In what I admit and intend to be a wholly off-the-wall and perhaps utterly inappropriate approach to writing my most current cover letter, I make the following effort to keep it real: In addition to the indigenous speeches and texts of my specialization, I focus on this country’s founding documents as critical tools for unpacking…
evaluation
In my experience, what really makes teaching an awful occupation is the messy matter of grading. I hope to never never not ever again assign POINTS to any single piece of writing, ever again. Did I mention, not ever? The built-in animosity is soul crushing, and so very far removed from my envisioned, intended ideal…
Insight/Outfit of the Day 