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73The Emperor's New Poem
I don't have a fine appreciation of contemporary poetry. Though I find it interesting, it is usually too full of angst, confusion and bitterness for me to find any meaning in it. I'm not saying that it is...
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72How to Capture a Tiny Saw-Whet Owl
"I was afraid he would fly away before I could get a picture," says photographer Linda Gast. Her husband had called her to come outside and bring her camera. "I knew it was an owl, but I didn't know what...
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65Out of My Elephant . . . I Mean, Element. Working with Blind Kids.
One of the particular joys of substitute teaching is being immersed in a wide range of educational experiences. If you work in a densely populated area you may work in many grade levels and many subjects...
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52"Oh Say Can You Sub?"
Picking up the receiver by the dawn's early light, I muttered what was supposed to be "Hello?", but it ended up being pronounced more like "hrumm?" I was answered in a foreign language: "Hi,...
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59Sub-Human Tales out of School
Where do substitute teachers come from? No one knows. We have plenty of firemen, veterinarians, ballerinas and astronauts-- because young children WANT to be these things. Five year-olds never want to be ...
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61The Frogpond Classroom: Taking Control
Jeremiah wasn't a bullfrog, but how we might have wished he was at that moment. Though he was running around the room flashing all the other young students, HE wasn't the one out of control. We were the...
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64"Damn! What's Your Problem?": The Defiant Child
In a particularly challenging fifth grade class with six or seven chronic discipline problems, I had fought the good fight most of the morning. With great effort I had managed to keep a semblance of order...
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61Finding Great (Cheap) Teaching Materials
How do you find supplementary teaching materials. Whether you are a full time teacher, sub teacher, youth group leader of a home-schooling parent, you may may find yourself needing supplementary materials...
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59Using Words, Well-Minced
As a sub teacher I rarely saw the teacher whose class I was covering, but one particular morning the regular teacher was attending a meeting on the school grounds. I had a chance to speak with her before...
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75Classroom Control: A Tale of Two Teachers
Miss Peterson, my tenth grade English teacher was about 4'11" and 96 pounds. She could have been easily pawed to shreds by an underweight Chihuahua , yet she could look any of us in the eye and make us...
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