#Teaching

Today I am officially ending my “term” as department chair. 12 years, 7 presidents, 9 VPs of instruction, God-only-knows-how-many-@ass_deans-because-I-lost-count, a school shooting, and a gradual doubling of the work load.
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Today, I submitted my final grades for my last semester of teaching literature & theatre studies at my university. I was 4 years into the tenure-track and had just published
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I was this kid in this exact same scenario where I was hungry and my father wanted to play abusive games with food and a can opener. It's abuse under
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In the professional world, educators are some of the most undervalued, overworked, and underpaid employees, and they arguably do one of the most important jobs: educating the next generation. We
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For students in early grades just learning to read, missing a few weeks of school could have lasting impacts. I took a look at the teachers trying to teach reading
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Twitter timelines full of #Lockdown2. A thread of my thoughts. Schools - especially Primary - I’m sure will stay open. I don’t disagree with this as we know that remote
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Friendly reminder to not require students to turn their cameras or even mics on. The chat is your friend and if done right, I find it to be far more
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On behaviour in schools. There’s probably no other job/profession(excepting NHS workers and Police - but that’s different) that fills one with such dread about coping with this on a daily
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Best-selling evangelical books instruct women to give their husbands sex to deal with their husbands’ porn addictions.If any reporters are working on stories about Josh Duggar, I’d love to give
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I want to seed a differently geared discussion about the purpose of university off the back of this thread. I teach lit studies and write in academic and non-academic fora.
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This new #bced plan is going to be a disaster for students. The Ministry is requiring teachers be on-site for a handful of students which will make them unavailable for
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CI is not inherently equitable....and yes, this is a hill I’m willing to die on. And not only is it not equitable, it’s dangerous to spread that message. Teachers using
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#Kiswahili is Africa's best shot at a continent wide language. Kiswahili's main speaking Countries (Kenya & Tanzania) should strengthen the language and make it more African. Borrowed words should be
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If you are confused by Pope Francis' latest soundbites on homosexuality, it's not you, it's us, Catholics, who currently cling to an incoherent theological anthropology that satisfies pretty much no
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Thread for people teaching online courses right now:One of the downsides of online courses is that students never feel like they have a day off. 1/ If students don’t log
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*clears throat*"Show, don't tell" is intended to address and prevent a few specific writing sins, especially ones common to inexperienced writers.It is not, and was never intended to be, carved
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