After An Educator's Journey
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Once upon a time, I taught 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders. Now I’m retired and working on new ventures.
Category: classroom management
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So many interesting ideas for categorizing books! I have, however, come to a decision about how to categorize the literature in 207’s classroom library. An important component of Third Grade Literacy is exposure to different genres. For me, I need to know that after giving a book talk or exposing children to a particular genre,…
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What is that expression?…. No good deed goes unpunished. This morning — March 9, 2009 — I had intended to arrive a bit early in order to start taking stock of the classroom books. Full of energy and fresh off of a beautiful spring weekend (temperatures in the 60s), I was committed to doing a…
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Thinking about how to organize books for students and figuring out the best way for your classroom is quite a challenge. Many people are pretty adamant about what should and shouldn’t be done; it makes my head spin sometimes. I’ve been reading a couple of interesting websites about how other teachers have decided to organize…
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I have no clue as to how things got so chaotic. Well, that’s not entirely true…. I think my organizational systems are so complex that the average 9 year-old might just have a tad bit of difficulty deciphering just what that organization is. Here is the “ugly”: I have 2 main book areas for the…
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So, I am getting close(r) to the end of my teaching career — I’m old enough to be looking wistfully as my colleagues begin to retire, but not ready to admit I should be quitting. I was looking around at the disheveled mess in my room – especially the book libraries – and began thinking…
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