Thinking...

All weekend I have been thinking of all of the things I wasn't prepared to think about when I was preparing to be a teacher...
Here's my list:
*How do you use a room parent?
*How SPECIFICALLY do you come up with a final grade to put on the report card?
*How do you deal with other teachers?
*How do you plan field trips for three months from now when you don't even know if you will be teaching the right lessons for that trip at that time??
*How do you turn your brain off so that you're not thinking about teaching every second of every day?

Anyone who can answer the last one can have a cookie!!

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Facebook and Teaching

Okay. I have a serious question for you...

Would you send a friend request to your child's teacher?

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Weird, huh?

I thought so. I got a friend request from a parent I met at back to school night about a month ago. I was kind of shocked. I had never met this person before and wondered why she wanted to be my friend on Facebook. I let the request sit in my inbox, in fact, it's still there.

I don't want to be rude, but at the same time, she doesn't need to know what I did over the weekend or that I played hooky from work to go to the beach. I post random stuff and I don't think its professional to befriend students OR their parents (apparently) on social websites. I mean, do they REALLY need to see me dressed up as a lion for halloween? I don't think so.

What do you think?

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Any Questions?

After teaching a phonics lesson to a kindergarten class and going over a worksheet they were to do at their desks, I automatically asked if anyone had any questions. Immediately, four hands popped up. This is what I got:

"What do horses eat?"

"Did you know its my birthday in June?"

"What are you going to be for Halloween?"

"Do you know how much five plus five is?"

Lesson: When asking a group of kindergartners if they have any questions, be prepared for anything!

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