Laura
I was warned that being a first year teacher was tough, but I did not know that would mean staying at school till 6 sometimes because I was crying too hard to drive home.
2012-01-19 16:48:14 / Rating: 127.75 / 
Story archives - tag: "teaching"
Gidget
I had a dead squirrel in one hand, a screaming child in the other, soon replaced with cake, and then I realized my life had taken an odd turn.
2011-10-18 16:27:38 / Rating: 87.25 /
sensei
When I pull out of the teachers' parking lot with the convertible top down and hear all of the kids screaming my name, I feel like a rock star.
2011-10-12 11:01:23 / Rating: 235 /
When English teachers go bad
I used to demand a new world order in flawless iambic pentameter, but now I'd settle for one in sixteen-syllable haiku.
2010-02-09 12:24:36 / Rating: 310.75 /
April
A student tried to stab me, and an administrator harassed me, and because I stuck it out until he asked me to resign, I'm the one with a record.
2009-10-12 12:04:34 / Rating: 228.5 /
sensei
I am dreading going to school tomorrow, which will make things difficult, since I am the teacher.
2009-09-02 07:36:02 / Rating: 362.75 /
Tink
I realized the dress code was less strict that I had previously thought when the female science teacher showed up wearing lederhosen.
2008-10-15 15:13:56 / Rating: 335 /
Teacher teacher
The first thing they said at orientation was "don't date your students" and 6 weeks into the semester I'm doing just that.
2008-10-13 15:16:35 / Rating: 306.5 /
Stace
As a first year science teacher, I realised that parent-teacher interviews formed my best ever lessons in human genetics.
2008-06-23 09:47:30 / Rating: 426.75 /
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.
2008-06-13 13:42:40 / Rating: 439.75 /
Joy
Teachers hate Field Day even more than students love it.
2008-01-25 13:16:52 / Rating: 331.25 /
DeWeese
I let the students convince me to let them watch a movie, then I assigned them an essay to write about it.
2008-01-22 18:12:18 / Rating: 331 /
jroz
I lose my heart to one hundred students a day, while wondering how long I can survive.
2008-01-18 10:52:04 / Rating: 347.25 /
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.
2007-08-06 17:05:31 / Rating: 481.75 /
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.
2007-06-25 10:42:16 / Rating: 536 /
Noelle
My nine-year-old Korean taekwondo instructor used only two words of English in his lesson: "Again," and "No."
2007-03-16 13:41:35 / Rating: 488.5 /