Jun
13
2007
Questions That Will Save Your Career
As I have mentioned before, my priorities as a first year teacher were a little bit off. It wasn’t until the end of my second year before I began to really “get it.” I still don’t get it, but I have begun to. What I learned in the last two and a half months of that second school year was that I needed to ask questions. But not just any questions. Over time, I have learned that a lot of the questions I asked were unfruitful or misguided. But I did do some things right. Below are some of the best questions that you can ask more experienced teachers, along with my answers to them.
- How Do I Keep My Students Quiet?
- How Do I Keep My Students Engaged?
- How Do I Keep My Students Interested?
- How Do I Keep My Students Learning?
- How Do I Keep My Students Away From Me?
- How Do I Keep My School Administration Happy?
- How Do I Keep My Sanity?
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Joel –
This is a wonderful site. Some of the topics you talk about are the nitty-gritty daily problems that are rarely discussed. I also like that you are a teacher of a special subject, not a “classroom teacher.” This perspective is so often ignored in the teaching literature. We have special constraints or situations that the traditional solutions just don’t address. You teach 30 minute lessons. I’d love for you to start a section for those teachers of special subjects, like art, music, PE, library, computers, etc. We need a place to talk about our special situations.