A Teacher’s Thoughts

Some time back, Ray Gilmore, a gradate of our school had written a letter to the local paper. He was serving in the Army in Afghanistan in a remote region near the Iranian border. His mission was with the local people. He spent his days planning and guiding the building/rebuilding of various infrastructure such as [...]

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 [...]