Category: Homeschool Teacher
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Magic Numbers and Homework
Busy work is a waste of time in the classroom and out. Repetive work is not. It’s sometimes just what the doctor ordered. It helps us keep pace with our peers. And today in 2022, we are moving quickly towards a smaller more specialized global workforce in which those that are hired are the most…
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Through Thru Threw
More often than not, students are told they are wrong even when they are applying logic. This is not the fault of the student yet the blame falls in their laps. Many students simply have never been taught how to learn and/or how to study by teachers who were gifted with these skill sets from…
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Horizon Coaching: a work in progress
2020 has been the year of the curveball. For me, it’s been another year to switch gears and reinvent myself and switch tracks. After ten years succeeding with middle schoolers in the classroom, I wanted a change. However, after a year, I miss teaching others how to use some life tools that I was gifted…
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Resilient to Change
A cooling breeze on a summer day is sometimes all we need. Many times though the solution is more complicated. I think sometimes we forget that change is necessary and resiliency is the skill we need to apply to survive. America 2020 could stand to ponder this for a bit before November when election day…
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Scratching Solutions
For many years I was a teacher and on a few occasions I had students ‘I hate you.’ I was always okay with it. It meant that the student was listening and responding to me just not into the relationship that we had developed. From there, it was always hard work but pretty easy to…
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Cure All, Teach All and the Capitalist
Every time I hear or see an educator toting or selling a new educational Cure All, Teach All product, I see them for what they are, snake salespeople hawking their wares. Teaching is quite simple: know your content, know your kids, meet the needs of your kids in real time. However, more often than not,…
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American Values – The Compromise?
As a 46 year old teacher I for certain have observed this one interesting conundrum and that is, a class full of middle school students could do a better job than the federal government and especially the Democratic party. Why? Because in elementary school is when you build a student foundation and middle school is…
Observations From the Spectrum 