Category: education
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The desk
AKA the dumping ground. There are two types of teachers and I know which one I am. The organised, OCD, neat freak teacher or the disorganised, in denial, desk avoiding teacher. Let’s start with the first kind of teacher. – This teacher has an absolutely spotless desk. Either they don’t know where their desk is…
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Shouting out…
…the bane of every teacher’s life. No amount of warnings, consequences and conversations with parents resolves it. Last year, I emailed a colleague about a child’s shouting out. I quote: “I know he cannot help shouting out. He is not doing it to intentionally annoy me but it is annoying me now. It has been…
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This time last year…
02 October 2015 It has been four weeks into the school year. My initial, patient ‘Mary Poppins’ demeanour is fading quickly, to be replaced by the Hulk. What exactly do I need to do/who do I need to scream/yell at, bribe/pester incessantly in order to move things along rapidly with him? He needs something (preferably…
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