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Learning/Education

“Growing Up Online”

As many of you know, I teach high school – grades 9 and 12. As they often share with me different aspects of their lives, I am increasingly flabbergasted at the amount of time children spend online. I am actually floored that their way of making friends and interacting with those friends is [...]

What Are We Teaching Our Children?

My daughter will be 3 years old on May 20th. I am so excited! I see her personality developing each day, her sense of independence, her vocabulary - it’s so incredibly amazing!
My husband and I try to teach our daughter how to make good choices. Even though she is (and will be) [...]

Let me give you some constructive criticism…

I’m in the home stretch now. As a teacher, I look forward to this time of the year. At the school at which I teach, seniors complete classes a full two weeks before graduation, although they take exams during that two week period. Underclassmen complete classes and exams on Friday, May 25th. [...]

I am thankful for…honesty in the midst of opportunistic journalism

As we all know, an horrific tragedy occurred on the campus of Virginia Tech on Monday, April 16th. I cannot imagine being the parent of any of the children who lost their lives that day. I can only extend condolences and prayers to the families of the victims, to those still fighting for [...]

I am thankful for…books! But I’m afraid that…

In my Friday Favorites for the week ending April 6th, I committed to posting that for which I am thankful in response to a post written by Ang at Ang4Him. Unfortunately, last week I felt compelled to write about some different things, yet, I continually thought about what I was grateful for. So [...]

PC vs. Mac

Last Friday, December 15th was the end of the fall semester at the high school at which I teach.  I get two weeks off from teaching (I always treasure this perk) and it is always my hope that my time off will be restful as well as productive. 
 
Restful it’s been…productive it’s not.  Something happened with [...]

I’ll Be Back!

Please forgive me…One of the great things about teaching where I teach is there is a great amount of flexibility in what I do.  That flexibility allows me to teach the way I feel is best for my students, to cover what I feel is most relevant, to assess what I feel is most important.
That [...]

Teacher Torture

At the moment, I am trying to finish constructing a test for my ninth grade Old Testament classes. And if there is nothing I’d rather do, next to grading tests, it’s making them up. I try to ensure that my tests are not merely a regurgitation of material; that, in fact, the students really have [...]

Teaching Our Children’s Souls

Since my daughter began to talk, I have been encouraging her to talk to God.  As a mother who is Christian, I am very concerned with how to talk with my daughter about God without all the “church-speak” and technical religious jargon and cliches church people seem to use at times.  I want my daughter [...]

Lessons I Learn From My Daughter

I’ve determined babies are the most incredible of all God’s creations. It took me almost 40 years to realize that, since it took just that long to have one (by choice). After 39½ years of life, along with 14½ weeks of complete bedrest during my pregnancy (most of that hospitalized), the birth of my dear daughter, [...]