Teacher Comics: A second voice

Teacher Comics: More routine than I care to admit

 

This is the 1200th post on my blog! What a meaningless milestone!

Teaching Comics: No students

I know some teachers love having students sit in on parent teacher conferences… and more power to them. Myself, I find having a student in a PT conference becomes a distraction and sometimes a hinderance to what the goal of that time is supposed to be. As I put it to my students who do come in, “You get an entire lifetime with your mom/dad/whoever. I only get fifteen minutes twice a semester. Give me some time!”

Teaching Comics: Conference prep

While it’s true that nothing can quite replicate the one-on-one that a parent teacher conference can generate, I can easily see them becoming a thing of the past. There are so many points for communication for parents these days… and skilled teachers know that even at the high school level, making regular phone calls home (both constructive and critical) will only help in the classroom.

Anyway, this whole week of comics is about parent teacher conferences.

Teacher Comics: Future Planning

Teacher Comics: Kinds of assessment

Teacher Comics: What they do/What I do

Teaching Comics: Lit Circle Prep

One of the things I love about literature circles are how the students self-monitor their groups to make sure things get done.

Chalkboard Drawings: The “Sochi 2014” edition

I draw a picture of myself on my classroom’s chalkboard everyday. I collect those pictures as camera phone photos and post them on Sundays. See the rest here.

 

I 100% do not care about The Winter Olympics at all… especially this year,  where every event held out of doors seems to come with a caveat from the commentators about how the snow or ice is “extra slushy” because someone stupidly chose a coastal vacation spot in Russia with moderate temperatures for the games.

Having said that, I can at least try to get in the spirit with my chalkboard drawings.

Questions from Readers: They’re grrrrrreat!

A person on Tumblr asks:

I also like Honey Graham Oh’s but I  could eat a box of that in two days so I generally stay away from that as a choice in the cereal aisle.