Story archives - tag: "teaching"

Stace

As a first year science teacher, I realised that parent-teacher interviews formed my best ever lessons in human genetics.

tags: humor teaching [add]

2008-06-23 09:47:30 / Rating: 206.25 /

Teacher

Standing at the front of the room, I suddenly realize that middle schoolers still intimidate me as much as they ever did when I was in middle school.

tags: teaching middle school confidence intimidation school [add]

2008-06-13 13:42:40 / Rating: 155.25 /

Joy

Teachers hate Field Day even more than students love it.

tags: school teaching [add]

2008-01-25 13:16:52 / Rating: 117 /

DeWeese

I let the students convince me to let them watch a movie, then I assigned them an essay to write about it.

tags: teaching movies expectation [add]

2008-01-22 18:12:18 / Rating: 101.75 /

jroz

I lose my heart to one hundred students a day, while wondering how long I can survive.

tags: teaching heart survival [add]

2008-01-18 10:52:04 / Rating: 112.75 /

Allison

I didn't realize just how short I was until, during student teaching, I found myself asking my 4th graders to reach things for me.

tags: humor embarrassed student teaching teaching children short [add]

2007-08-06 17:05:31 / Rating: 177.5 /

N

On his last day of class, the middle school foreign language teacher concisely summed up his opinion of the year with the words, "Fuck off," then left the room without looking back while his co-teacher translated what he just said into Korean.

tags: Korea teaching teacher middle school foreign language travel job humor [add]

2007-06-25 10:42:16 / Rating: 224.75 /

Noelle

My nine-year-old Korean taekwondo instructor used only two words of English in his lesson: "Again," and "No."

tags: humor foreign language travel teaching teacher student martial arts [add]

2007-03-16 13:41:35 / Rating: 193.25 /