9th Grade English Comic General by Joel Wagner - May 18, 2008July 1, 20101 Scott Walker over at The English Teacher has been building up a little collection of comics he has drawn during staff development sessions (and a few others). I like his work, and enjoy reading his blog even when it has words and no pictures. I am featuring one of his comics a week here on So You Want To Teach? once a week (every Sunday sounds like a good plan) until I run out of them, or until he complains and asks me to stop sending people to his blog. I highly encourage you to go spend some time exploring his blog in the mean time! Leave him some encouraging comments also! Joel WagnerJoel Wagner (@sywtt) began teaching band in 2002. Though he had a lot of information, his classes were out of control. He found himself tired, frustrated, disrespected by students, lonely, and on the brink of quitting. He had had enough. He resigned from his school district right before spring break of his second year and made it his personal mission to learn to be a great teacher. So You Want To Teach? is the ongoing story of that quest for educational excellence.
Looking at these cartoons (especially the second one) reminded me of something my English teacher has recently complained about. With my class being the AP class, she has recently commented on how lazy the regular English classes are. They are always asking her questions such as “how do you do this?” or “I don’t get it.” They want her to do the work for them. This is just another problem schools face today…