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Stop Working and Start Teaching >>

Nathan

Whoever said that teaching has to be hard work? Well speaking from experience, it is. You go in early than you're supposed to. Your planning is barely enough to scrape together anything resembling a lesson. You leave later than you're supposed to. Then you work once you're at home. You wake up the next morning having dreamed about tomorrow's lesson. That's a whole lot of work, and the craziest part is that the actual teaching comes second to the work. You know what I'm talking about. Instead of having time to really tutor a student on a concept, you're too busy picking...

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Funding for the Unfunded >>

Nathan

It has been a little while since my last post. Life has gotten the upper hand, and I have swamped with work. This week I'm on spring break though, so I have a little more time to myself. While I was surfing the web over coffee this morning, I came across a really awesome resource for teachers. I work in a school system that provides well for its students; however as I imagine it is for most teachers, there is always something that I could really use in the classroom but don't have the funding for. Well luckily there is a group out...

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Survival >>

Nathan

I'm quickly coming to the conclusion that you have to be a little bit crazy to teach. From being called an asshole to cleaning up chewing tobacco out of my sinks, there have been days. Oh yes, there have been days! At times I think they're all out to get me. Sometimes it's just a matter of counting down the minutes to 3 o'clock. Luckily it's not always that bad. Actually the majority of time things are fun in the classroom. So much of my experience thus far has been working to just survive. From the impossibly complicated task of keeping up...

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