A Teacher’s Thoughts

April vacation is here. With it came the first sunny and truly warm days of spring. Outside my house, the lilies and other perenials are poking above the mulch. The plans for the week include field trips to the beach, Grammies house, friends houses, and the children’s museum for my wife and son. For me [...]

One day, after frustration had reached its peak, I gave a handout containing procedures to accomplish a task and then kept my mouth shut. It seemed that I would give the instructions and the students would then ask questions without reading or thinking. My sixth grade students, used to my usual approach of handing out [...]