This summer has been off to a crazy start! More to come about this in a post later this week. For now, I'm linking up with Sugar and Spice for Wordless Wednesdays:
Today we are using an app called Haiku Deck in class! More to come about this later...
What technology have you found to incorporate into your classrooms?
My students love using the iPad to email sight words to me during word work! Thanks for linking up! :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea! I'll have to share that with our primary teachers. Thanks for stopping by!
ReplyDeleteAfter teaching for 10 years and researching for the writemyessay service on teaching methodology and with management seeming, magically, every year to find some secret way to suck more time and energy out of the faculty, I have come to exactly these same conclusions. But where I get pushback is from younger teachers who have not yet been wrung out like a dishcloth yet, one of whom actually yelled at me at meeting when I protested more work, "It's about the children, David. It's about the children!" And thus the scarlet letter was branded on my head--even as I left to write carefully and in-depth the umpteenth letter of recommendation, on my own time, for one of my students, of whom maybe 1/3 will give me a 'thank you.' So, though I'm not sanguine things will change, it is so, so good to see the truth printed in a national paper. And funny, isn't it, how no one demands medical doctors to have low pay and status because 'it's all about the patient'? And funnier still, isn't it, that everyone and her father feels free to weigh on what teachers should and should not do even though they've never taught a day of school in their life? It's long since time for teachers to take care of teachers. As you say, my students would be getting a 100% better classroom experience if I was rested and had the time to prepare a class that would give them that. I'm a good and caring teacher and have an Ivy PhD in my subject, but since I live in New York and am not an heir like the fool posing as our president, there is no conceivable way I will ever own a home. Do I wish now I had gone to Wall Street instead? Hell no! But that's not a justification of the status quo; it's a condemnation of it, and credit to every underpaid, overworked, under-respected teacher in this country.
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