Since I've stepped down from classroom teaching as my full-time job, I've been excited to see how I still have so many opportunities to teach. Frequently, these opportunities have been one-on-one. And I really like it! I've been teaching Sunday School teachers how to be better teachers by stepping in to observe their classes and [...]
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Visualizing the Abstract
This is something I have wondered about for a while and I would love responses from you all! When you think of the months of the year (whether to try to remember when something happened, calculate how much time before a certain event, think about a date on the calendar, etc.), what do you see? [...]
All in a Day’s Work: Teacher Edition
Fiction It was going to be one of those days. One of the students knocked my coffee off my desk and it had only gone downhill from there. I just had fifteen minutes left to give a spelling lesson and then I could drop the students off at lunch. Twenty minutes of peace! “Sorry,” the [...]
A Teacher’s Worst Nightmare
“Look what I brought, Miss Barnwell.” I looked up from entering attendance on my computer and made eye contact with the impish painted eyes of a 10-inch doll. It was sitting in a coy pose, hugging its knees, inside an enormous glass pickle jar. I eventually regained the mental strength to break eye contact and [...]
Welcome To The Carriage House 