A few months ago, I visited the Met museum in New York, and while looking at artifacts from Ancient Greece, I came across a placard that explained the origins of the word school. It turns out that school is derived…
In honor of Halloween, I’ve been watching some spooky and supernatural shows on Netflix, and one that I just finished is called Ragnarok. In this show, the Norse god Thor, is reincarnated in the body of a high school boy…
The night before my first subbing assignment, I looked up the school website and noticed the school had a really unique bilingual program. For every grade level, there was one classroom conducted in English and another classroom conducted in Spanish. …
Recently, I visited the famous Globe Theater in London, which is a replica of the original where William Shakespeare produced his legendary plays. Unlike audiences of today, Shakespeare wrote his plays for a crowd who was often rowdy, loud and…
As part of the process to obtain a teaching credential from the CTC (Commission on Teacher Credentialing), candidates are required to complete at least 600 hours of clinical practice. In August, I will start an apprenticeship program called Student Teaching,…
While teachers don’t get paid a high salary, they do get some pretty neat discounts! Over the past several months, I’ve been able to get some discounts showing my substitute teaching credential or Student ID from grad school. I’ll go…
While news headlines around education are often focused on teacher shortages, I haven’t found as much buzz about the huge drop of substitute teachers post-pandemic. In my personal experience of substitute teaching over the past year, if I wanted to…
In a class I’m currently taking, we have been discussing why labels are so harmful for students with exceptionalities, differences and disabilities, but I think labels are harmful for all students. For this story, I’ll need to go back to…
Being a teacher or substitute teacher might seem intimidating to some people because you are constantly speaking in front of a live audience. Sure, your audience is often a young one, and they may need reminders to sit “Cross Criss,…
This summer, I will be returning to my alma mater for my 20 year reunion, so I’ve had some time to reflect back on how different my college years were from my current experiences of being a student again in…