This is coming late, but check out my Halloween costume! This is my teaching partner and I :)
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The Girl Who Just Wants To Learn of the Day: Meet Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year-old Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban this week on her way home from school — ”A bullet struck her head, but her brain is safe,” one of her doctors reported.
Why is the Taliban targeting her? Because she openly campaigns online and in her country for education for girls.
A Taliban spokesman says that if she survives, they’ll come for her again:
She was pro-West, she was speaking against the Taliban and she was calling President Obama her idol. She was young but she was promoting Western culture.
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The Girl Who Just Wants To Learn of the Day: Meet Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year-old Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban this week on her way home from school — ”A bullet struck her head, but her brain is safe,” one of her doctors reported.
Why is the Taliban targeting her? Because she openly campaigns online and in her country for education for girls.
A Taliban spokesman says that if she survives, they’ll come for her again:
She was pro-West, she was speaking against the Taliban and she was calling President Obama her idol. She was young but she was promoting Western culture.
I made a new bulletin board in my classroom.
It took four hours. Not a single student said anything to indicate they noticed. I also dyed my roots. Twelve students noticed/commented. Either my roots were really bad or my bulletin board is really bad.
Sitting at my desk this morning. I thought I smelled something foul.
It was a sandwich. Wedged under my door; clearly left there before the weekend. Balogna. Three days old.
Become a teacher, they said. It will be fun, they said.
“You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.” Some days I think I’m holding students under.
Have you ever cried at work? It’s an interesting article, but I think the headline is misleading.
Ok, I need advice.
Recently, the lockers in my classroom were removed. In their absence is a large space along the wall now. I originally wanted to paint the wall with idea paint (to turn it into a giant whiteboard…) but the division has told me that I am not allowed to do so. I was somewhat considering buying a couch and some little bean bag chairs to put in the space for a reading corner (reading…wall?), but I have some reservations about that. Here are my thoughts:
Pro’s:
Students might love the reading space
It will fill the space that is rather unsightly now
My classroom will be the cool classroom
Cons:
I will have to pay for the furniture with my own money (probably)
The space may become distracting
My classroom will be the cool classroom.
Ideas? What do you think??
Today
Today I am excited. Next week I’m taking my class on a field trip (just to a neighbouring city…but still a big deal for me) and I’m planning an art gallery trip as well. My students are excited for Christmas and there are lots of goodies in the staff room! I think I might be getting the hang of this teaching thing. Life is good.
This reminds me of my grade 11’s; a class with self diagnosed “ADOD”: Attention Deficit Ooh-look-something-shiny Disorder.
I just got black acrylic paint on my italian jeans.
This is why art teachers can’t have nice things. Waa.
