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88How to Write Humor: What's So Funny?
An editor I once worked with asked if I could teach her how to write humor. Until then, I had never thought of humor as being something that is taught. I've always thought that people have a humor gene or...
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64Out 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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55"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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59Name 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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61Blindsided by Ageism: Being Fifty
I have reached the age where it doesn't matter. What age is that? Frankly, it's none of your business. People who worry about age will tell you, "Age is how you feel." Yeah, right. People who are older...
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58Finding 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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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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61"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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63Pumpkins, Prepositions and Punctuation
How could kindly old Mrs Lessing been so insensitive? It was like someone had taken a can of red paint and defaced an impressionist masterpiece with uncomplimentary words and phrases. "Spelling!" and...
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