Category: teaching
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Reasons why I love(d) teaching … (Part 1)
Sometimes, when you rant and ramble on about how hard teaching is and why it is the worst job in the world, it’s difficult to see the positive reasons why teaching is so amazing. 1. Making a difference. In my many classes, I had quite a few children who didn’t deserve my time and effort.…
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The wardrobe malfunction
12 September 2017. There is nothing more satisfying, as a teacher, when you find a skirt that you can wear to school. It has the perfect length, to the knee and an added bonus… it has pockets to put your whiteboard pens in!!!! You feel really trendy with the stripes and the zip at the…
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The One.
In my first months of teaching, I taught a certain young gentleman that has stayed in my memory (in my heart) ever since I first met him. When I took over the responsibilities of being the class teacher, I was promptly informed that he would be ‘The One’. The one child, that would interrupt my…
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Snow joke – it was a long week!
At the beginning of March, my county experienced the heaviest snow fall it had seen in a few years. In the past snow has fallen over half term holidays, weekends etc so getting to work was not a problem – I didn’t need to. This week of snow was made worse by the fact that…
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Taking the Biscuit!
Depending on where in the country you teach, depends on how reliably you can expect to see homework returned before the hand in date. Since September, I have had a total of 5 out of 30 children who regularly return their homework each week. With only a few weeks left until they sit their end…
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The OCD teacher
This is a massive confession and one that some people might consider to be ridiculous – but it is a real issue and one I am happy to share because I know I’m not the only teacher with this challenge in their daily classroom practise. If you ask any teacher whether they have a ritual…
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Well, guess who feels like a big, fat failure right now?
Last January, I made 5 New Year’s Resolutions. And I’ve accomplished none of them. Well maybe one. At a push. 1. Be more positive. I feel like I was rather positive for moments of this year. But with endless car issues, the dramas of finding a new car, moving school, pre-teen hormones and the stresses…
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The silent drive home.
When you drive the entire 30 minute journey home in silence. No music. No radio. Not even a Christmas song. You know it’s the last day of term and you’re ready for a two week rest. The highs and lows of today are juxtapositions. One minute I’m winning at this game they call teaching and…
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“Out of the frying pan…”
“And into the fire!” July 2017 I’ve heard this be said to me, quite a lot, when I describe my new teaching job to colleagues and friends. I’m moving school to teach year 6 when I currently teach year 3. The children will be older, with bigger attitudes and more hormones than I’m currently used…
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I’m so tired, but I can’t seem to fall asleep.
When I got home this evening, I coooked my dinner and ate it, I typed up a brief list of jobs to do tomorrow morning, during PPA, and started cleaning my living room. I even moved a cabinet from one corner of the living room, to the other at 9pm…why? Because I can’t seem to…
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