contemplating a brave new classroom
Written by Celeste Kirsh
10. Every trip you take, every documentary you watch, every TV show you indulge in has connections to the curriculum you are teaching and you are over the top excited to share these insights with everyone in your class the next day. 9. Sometime around the middle of August you start actually getting excited to … Continue reading “Top Ten Ways You Know You Are An Edu-Nerd”
Written by Celeste Kirsh
“What’s it like to be off from school?” “What do you do all day now that you are not working?” “Do you miss teaching?” “Don’t you just love watching Netflix all day?” Anyone who has taken any time off from their regular career to care for their children might feel the same twinges of … Continue reading “What my baby has taught me about learning”
Written by Celeste Kirsh
It’s another year of Cohorting and this year I’m blogging from the sidelines as I am taking on a new teaching role of my squishy baby boy. Thinking about a whole new batch of teachers embarking on this journey, I wanted to share some thoughts about the challenges joys of blogging. If you are like … Continue reading “How to get over yourself and write about your teaching already”
Written by Celeste Kirsh
We are now into week four of this History adventure and there have been some ups and downs…some moments of sheer brilliance and some moments of “what the heck was I thinking?” But like anything in the life of a teacher, you win some and you lose some. Here are some highlights from the last … Continue reading “First steps towards “wow””
Written by Celeste Kirsh
Can this be a reality? Or better yet… Should this be a reality? Truthfully, I don’t have the answer to either of those questions, but I did leave the second Face 2 Face with a clear direction for my action plan this year: how can I make Social Studies (specifically History) a novel, exciting, and entertaining … Continue reading “School as exciting as an amusement park?”