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Category Archives: Teaching

Last Minute Disaster Relief

I have been teaching for nine years. In that time, I have realized that professors only teach you a small portion of what you need to know in the real teaching world. I think that teachers should have to take more psych classes. I also think that we should all be certified in CPR and…

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fresh bulletin boards

I don’t know about you guys, but I’m not very good at keeping up with bulletin boards. I remember walking through the elementary education floor at college and looking at all of the fabulous bulletin boards. I think it’s awesome and crazy that they had to create bulletin boards for a grade. We never got…

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starting the year

I’ve been thinking about what I still need to do to prepare for my future students. I need to go through my ninth grade curriculum to make sure I’ve covered everything. I need to finish planning for speech class. I also need to review my plans for journalism. Another thing I need to do is…

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Monroeville, Alabama

I should start by saying that To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is my absolute favorite book of all time forever. I consider myself inexplicably lucky to teach this novel each year. A couple of summers ago some friends and I went on a vacation to Pensacola. I love a good beach, but I…

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a throwback to nineties speech class

Today I started to plan for speech class. I have taught speech before and it is definitely one of the highlights in my day. I vividly remember speech class in high school. I think I took the class when I was a sophomore. I looked a little something like this back in the 1990s. I…

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