“Sometimes it is not the students who worry me. It is the substitute. I get scared when I come back after being out for a day, and the kids say they had the best day of their lives.” I hate getting sick. And it’s really not about the illness, it’s about not being at school. [...]
“I can still remember my first interview questions: What is your philosophy of education? What is your classroom management system? What is your discipline plan? God if I knew.” I agree with Mr. Done. I am pretty sure I completely bullshitted my entire first interview. How are we supposed to know who we are going [...]
“You see, last night I had a dream. I hd a dream that I had to have a triple heart bypass, and right before they put me under, I looked up at my doctor, and it was Anthony. I had a dream that I visited my financial planner the day after I retired, and it [...]
Another one where I am going to respond to every line of Mr. Done’s essay… Enjoy! “Why can kids say, “Jinks, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten–you owe me a Coke,” in less than .05 seconds but take three hours to tell me what eight times seven it?”” Works the same [...]
“My students live for three things: recess, lunch, and sharing. It is true. What’s worse is they think the days of the week are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Shareday.” So true! That’s it, even for high schoolers.
This particular essay made be cry… He details this long story about how he found out that one of his student’s parents could not read. It was so sad… While I wondered a bit about if my students’ parents have some tragic backstory, usually the assumptions I make and find out are wrong are not [...]
“I like picture day. It is the one day of the year when T-shirts are traded for button-downs, sweatpants are replaced with pants without holes, and the room is full of new haircuts and hairbows.” I mixed feelings about picture day…. it’s really a love/hate relationship. I love to see all the students dressed to [...]
This very short essay conjured up so many memories of teaching that I had to respond. So for you my reader, to get a feel for the where the memories came from, I have modified the format. All quotes are the exact text of Mr. Done’s essay. What follows the quote is my thoughts after [...]
Mr. Done wrote a funny little essay entitled “Teacher School” that listed all the stuff he learned in teacher school. Things like: juice box opening, how to read upside down, how to say the times tables really fast, etc. It was cute and funny. But then i thought What did I learn in teacher school? [...]
According to Phillip Done there are six types of classrooms out there. Which ever classroom you are, says a lot about your personality. So he got me to thinking what type of classroom am I? and what type do I want to be? A quick rundown of the six categories: Shock — all walls, doors, [...]