I unintentionally joined a jazz group with a few other teachers at my school. I play the guitar. We practice on Wednesdays. Here is an example of how practice goes: We’re playing some Duke Ellington piece to which I lost my last page of music and I don’t know the last chord. I play the […]
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Sending students to the principal sucks almost as much as getting sent to the principal
Going to an all-girls private Catholic didn’t do much to prepare me to work at a public high school in the so-called Bronx of Madrid (see most recent post). A few weeks ago I was talking to another teaching assistant who also works at a high school in Madrid. She was telling me about one […]
Offensive responsibility: I am a teacher
Teaching. It’s hard! Not even hard as it is a huge responsibility. I swear after just three months of teaching I have more appreciation and understanding of teaching than I ever thought I would have. I may once in my life have wanted to be a teacher but I was probably about 9 and was […]