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52"He's on the Roof!"; The Challenging Child
"Please report any accidents or unusual occurrences to the school office." This is one of the items on a checklist often given to a substitute teacher upon arrival at the assignment. When I read it, it...
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55The 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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59"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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54"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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53How To Be a "Stand-Up" Teacher
What is your position in the classroom? I am reminded of the story about the job applicant who responded to the space labeled "position desired" by filling in the word "sitting". As a substitute...
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78Finding Pinocchio in The Bible
Once there was a wise creator of beautiful things. He filled his world with wonders wrought by his own hand and saw that they were good, but one thing he lacked. If he only had a son to share his beautiful...
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63Children's Dispute Resolution: How You Can Gain Control
As a personality, I suppose I'm more of a doormat than a doorstop and more of a tabby than a tiger. As a sub teacher I had a common problem: WANTING to be sensitive and fair while NEEDING to be decisive and...
2 comments54Can You Remember A Name?
Have you ever heard your name called out in the midst of a busy crowded place? Did you divert your attention from all of the surrounding distractions and "zero in" on the person who spoke your name. Even...
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64Name Games and Trading Places
In a sixth grade class of bright, attentive children of diverse personality and race, I mentally deliberated the credibility of a pale blonde girl with a name tag reading: "Maria Sanchez-Garcia". ...
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64Classroom 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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