Who Am I?

As I sit here at the state fair with our farm, I wonder who I really am. Can a person really separate their personal and professional life? Don't all parts of your life make you who you are or can you really choose and switch on and off different ways of looking at situations based on what role you are playing?

Ethics in Education

Looking at ethics in education. How often do you make decisions based on your heart and not your head? What are some examples of those decisions?

Summertime

Teachers---what are you doing to relax this summer!!! Please share!

Fires in the Middle School Bathroom-April

Chapters 5,6 How do you engage your students in the classroom?

February Book Study

In this chapter we discuss how to help our middle schoolers grow into confident learners. Knowing that standardized tests raise students' anxiety, what do you do as a teacher to calm their fears and make them more confident?

Fires in the Middle School Bathroom-Jan

From the reading we know that students want their comments/opinions heard in your classroom. How do you make sure that you are not like those teachers discussed on page 76?

Fires in the Middle School Bathroom - Ch 2

Answer the following question:

Compare and contrast teacher-student relationships in your classroom now to when you were in middle school as a student.