• Uncategorized

    Things I love about being a teacher

    I actually got the comment that I have “insufficient references to Doctor Who, Sherlock, Monty Python, and Indiana Jones” on a reply form to my class. The last 15 minutes of class today was a tournament rock, paper, scissors style where they punished each other with dares like “stand in front of the entire class and say, ‘I am beautiful'” and “bow down to Ms. K and say ‘I am your girl. I will get A’s’.” I have never seen anyone as in to Rock Paper Scissors as this group of kids. I had a kid today say, “I like nerds and I like people, so I like this room…

  • Uncategorized

    Research Essays

    I sometimes forget that kids today don’t do research. In 5th grade I wrote a paper about sloths. It was a laborious one-card-per-fact sort of paper. By the end, I had more slothy knowledge than most people with ever need unless they are some sort of zoologist who specializes in sloths. To this day, I can give you facts about giant, three-toed, and two-toed sloths. I can tell you about legends. I can tell you about biology. Most of all, I can tell you that nothing beats going to talk to a person who loves sloths when you’re writing the mother of all research papers: a year-long 50 page paper…