Teacher's Corner

Love when your personal life is giving you stress, like thanks my job didn’t have enough of that

This Florida shooting is the first big school shooting since I became a teacher. It’s hitting extra hard.

Anyone have any book suggestions? They don’t have to be teaching related. Trying to take more time for myself.

Just so y’all know, I’m mutuals with a lot of you but this is my side blog so I can’t follow from here. If you ever want to know my main blog just ask!!!!

The hardest days are the days where I lose my patience. I raise my voice at a child, I got upset, etc. I know that I am a good teacher and a lot of my students have made growth and I have some students who will talk to me and no one else, but when I have days like this I feel like the worst teacher ever and like I'm ruining my kids.

Do you ever have those students who literally only respond and are successful when your a strict, mean teacher? Like I try positive reinforcements, being friendly, redirection, and it doesn't work. When I use my mean teacher voice they immediately change. I hate feeling like a mean teacher but it's literally the only thing they respond to. Like I want them to be successful...it's hard.

Like I'm all for common core standards and teaching the standards and I think they're super great and beneficial...but what I'm struggling with is when students can't add or subtract, which are like 1st and 2nd grade standards, how am I supposed to teach my 4th grade standard of multiplying four digit numbers? Like how do I even begin??