I love utilizing sustained silent reading in my classroom. I’m good at it. Even so, there are pitfalls that students and teachers can fall into if they are not collectively careful.
Archive for January, 2015
Teacher comics: From Divergent to The Book Thief…
Posted in 2014-2015 school year with tags comics, education, i am the messenger, journal comics, markus zusak, teacher comics, the book thief on January 30, 2015 by Christopher PearceTeacher Comics: Girls who kick @$$.
Posted in 2014-2015 school year with tags comics, education, journal comics, teacher comics on January 29, 2015 by Christopher Pearce
I’m skipping comics posting today folks!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 28, 2015 by Christopher PearceSorry for the interruption but I had to take the day off from work and at this point, it just makes more sense to wait ’til tomorrow.
No comic Wednesday, but you’ll get ’em on Thursday and Friday to make up for it. Apologies again!
Teacher comics: A list of dystopia
Posted in 2014-2015 school year with tags comics, dystopia, education, journal comics, teacher comics on January 27, 2015 by Christopher Pearce
If people leave comments of the names of other dystopian YA novel series, I’ll draw an additional panel of me naming them to Mika and having her say she’s already read them.
Teacher Comics: SOS
Posted in 2014-2015 school year with tags comics, divergent, education, journal comics, teacher comics, veronica roth on January 26, 2015 by Christopher Pearce
…and yes, I know about Four, gang.
Chalkboard drawings: The “dead and gone” edition
Posted in chalkboard drawings with tags chalkboard drawings on January 25, 2015 by Christopher PearceI 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 got my first case of the teacher crud this week!
Teacher comics: Essay thanks
Posted in 2014-2015 school year with tags comics, education, journal comics, teacher comics on January 22, 2015 by Christopher Pearce
A couple of things about this comic I couldn’t articulate in two panels:
1. I must edit and give help on dozens of college essays a year for students, both ones I’ve had in class and ones who’ve heard I’m a guy who will help them out with that sort of thing. You’d be surprised at how few “Thank you’s” I get for the effort. I’m not complaining exactly, but the fact that this particular student thought to thank me definitely made me think of doing a comic about this exchange.
2. I sweep my own room. Students who go through my classroom will often go off to college. I’ve had students who’ve left my class and chosen to become pre-med, pre-law, and many other rarefied career training courses. I am a teacher. I sweep my own room.
Teacher comics: The endless cycle
Posted in 2014-2015 school year with tags comics, education, journal comics, teacher comics on January 21, 2015 by Christopher Pearce
Teacher comics: Course correction
Posted in 2014-2015 school year with tags comics, education, journal comics, parcc, standardized testing, teacher comics, william shakespeare on January 20, 2015 by Christopher Pearce
It does bum me out that this new (sort of ridiculously planned) testing cycle has mucked with my favorite unit of study.
Chalkboard drawings: The “anime” edition
Posted in chalkboard drawings with tags aang, ash ketchum, avatar the last airbender, chalkboard drawings, dragonball z, goku, pokemon on January 18, 2015 by Christopher PearceI 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.
Another abbreviated week thanks to professional development, I decided to draw myself with some Japanese animation characters in the mix.
I realize Avatar: The Last Airbender is an American-made cartoon with inspirations from anime, but I couldn’t resist drawing Aang because I really dug that show when it was first on TV.
