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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 | Rafe Esquith

I picked up this book to get some new ideas for the upcoming school year. It has some good advice and tips that I plan to implement, but when I Googled the author to find his Pengiun blog, I found that he was fired from his district for old allegations of sexual misconduct. He started a class action suit against the district for firing teachers who were close to retirement to save on benefits, but that's kind of leaving me with a bad taste now. 😐

Rachel.Rencher Also, he mentions in the book that his elementary age students can call him for homework help after hours, work with him on the weekends, and they call him by his first name. I know this was published 20 years ago, but yikesss. Ugh. Can anyone recommend a good teacher book? I feel like they're all so cheesy, and if I do find a good one, the guy is a damn predator. 😭 1w

GingerAntics In this day and age, I can get having a virtual classroom chat where questions can be sent to the teacher and the teacher can answer after hours if possible, but only in the school approved system. We used Microsoft teams, so o specifically had a “room” that I called office hours, and I told them they could ask a question whenever and I would answer as soon as I could. I knew the school could see very chat and every word, so I felt okay about it. 1w

GingerAntics One of my students having my phone number? Man, even students that have graduated don‘t even have that. Weird. I guess if I was working with elementary age kids, I could have a phone just for school that MAYBE parents had, but even that seems a bit much. It‘s better to have the paper trail of emails or chats anyway. That is creepy. 1w

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CoffeeK8 I‘ll recommend this book! I‘m on the admin side now, but this one helped me be a better teacher by becoming a more focused person at work

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Rachel.Rencher @GingerAntics Yeah, I just felt creepier the more I read it. I'd never give a kid my phone number, but I do answer questions when I see them from school email or Google Classroom only. 1w

Rachel.Rencher @CoffeeK8 Awesome! Thank you for the recommendation. 🙂 1w

GingerAntics @Rachel.Rencher exactly! That covers you in case anyone claims anything. The class action may point to him not doing anything illegal or anything, but he did do some shady stuff. 1w

staci.reads What do you teach? I may have some reason for you if you are secondary. 6d

Rachel.Rencher @staci.reads I teach 8th grade! 6d

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BC_Dittemore

Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition | Paulo Freire

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A seminal & important work. So important I had to check it out from the library to read & listen to it simultaneously after having already listened to it once. I‘ve gone & purchased a hard copy too.

I‘m not looking for a gold star; I‘m looking to mine all the gold I can from Freire because American‘s are under exigent circumstances.

This is not a test! Education is under attack. The oppressive regime is here. Read. Educate yourself. Prepare.

ncsufoxes I‘ve had this one sitting on my shelf for a year or two now (probably longer). One I need to prioritize but right now it feels like there‘s too many books to prioritize 3mo

BC_Dittemore @ncsufoxes it truly does feel like there are too many to prioritize. I sorta let instinct guide me. & right now my instinct is telling me to utilize my spare time in different ways. I still have audiobooks though & still work too many hours. Perfect combination! 😅 3mo

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Mitch

Why Read? | Mark Edmundson

I was really gladdened by this statistic - I worried it would be much lower. ❤️

TheKidUpstairs That is higher than I would've guessed! Love to see it 7mo

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cant_i'm_booked

Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition | Paulo Freire

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I cannot recommend this book enough - it may not be the most “fun” read because it is designed to critically teach and not entertain - but it is necessary and thus, riveting. A famed Brazilian educator who grew up in the slums of Recife, Paulo Freire believes that real, “consciousness-raising” education consists of knowing what our world is, how it came to be that way, what other and better ways we could imagine it, and how to realize those ways.

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TheBookgeekFrau

The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing | Alfie Kohn

#SchoolSpirit #Homework

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Wow - sounds like a good read! 10mo

TheBookgeekFrau @Eggs It was! 10mo

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Bookwomble

Cultural Action for Freedom | Paulo Freire

I let out a little Marxist squeal when I saw this on the charity table at the supermarket. Who the hell else in my sadly staunch Tory stronghold of a village is reading Freire?!
I'm all the more encouraged to read it because of a one-star GR review that begins, "This book is Marxist indoctrination of poor people dressed up as a revolutionary education theory," which they've shelved as "Not to be read". Sounds right up my street! ✊?

Suet624 👏 👏 👏 13mo

The_Book_Ninja If someone calls me a Marxist as an insult I feel quite flattered. I do correct them, however, and say I‘m a Trotskyist. 13mo

Bookwomble @Suet624 ✊ 13mo

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Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja My Marxist credentials would probably be more impressive if I'd ever read a word he'd written! 😄 13mo

Cuilin How fantastic!! ✊ 13mo

CarolynM I hope you‘re still in a Tory, rather than Reform UK, stronghold after today. 13mo

Bookwomble @CarolynM It would be awful to lurch even further right, but my hope is on being at least in a Labour area. Green would be better, but one step at a time 😊 13mo

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JanuarieTimewalker13

Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor | Lynda Barry

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This book was SO much fun. If you‘re a teacher, journaler, artist, writer, or looking for any interdisciplinary course content, this is the book. She has her students drawing, reading, writing, remembering poems and creating their own books in composition books. It‘s just wonderful!

JanuarieTimewalker13 Book 14 finished 5/15/24. 1y

dabbe Your book looks incredible! 🤩🤩🤩 1y

JanuarieTimewalker13 @dabbe awhhh, thanks!!!! Creative journaling has changed my life…I‘m a little obsessed. Lol 1y

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dabbe @JanuarieTimewalker13 I've tried, but I find I can't come up with good ideas. Maybe I could just copy yours! 💙🩵💙 1y

JanuarieTimewalker13 @dabbe sincerely, it‘s within you. Syllabus would help you. She has some fun ideas. I start with what I‘m thinking and what‘s going on or an observation or a dream or anything. As far as decorating, there‘s so much fun stuff out there!! I‘ve used cut outs from BookPage, Real Simple, WorldWildlife Fund…a lot of free stuff. What‘s you start, it just takes over and you get to tap into the creativity that is sometimes lost once childhood is over. (edited) 1y

JanuarieTimewalker13 I‘ve even used wrappers, and pieces of old books, etc. for the markers, stickers, washi, there‘s so many places to get stuff you do t even have to leave the house. My top 3 I would say is Stationery Pal, JournalSay, Jet Pens. Also a lot of fun stuff on Etsy 1y

JanuarieTimewalker13 If you go on YT, there are tons of channels to view and some people even use journaling prompts…I think Helen from TheCoffeeMonsterzCo has prompts available somewhere. 1y

dabbe @JanuarieTimewalker13 I'll check it out! Thanks! 💙🩵💙 1y

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