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If teaching is the career fit for you, there are countless reasons it's a job you can love and feel proud about doing. TheApple contributor, Joel, shares 50 of his favorites reasons to love teaching. 1. Sharing personal experiences 2. Helping inexperienced teachers solve problems 3. The ability to help children achieve their best 4. Inspiring them not only academically but ...

Dear Julia, I enjoy presenting both art and Spanish I lessons to my middle school students (grades 6, 7 and 8) and have done so successfully and almost uneventfully for the past nine years at my current public K-8 school. I was told recently by my administrator that she had received three phone calls from parents who were upset that their ...

I perused an article today about Obama's plan to stress more competition for teacher grants aimed at improving teacher effectiveness and quality. (Phew - that's a mouthful!) (Imagine saying all that if you WEREN'T an educator already immersed in that dialogue and those ideas.) (Wait. What? A bunch of people who AREN'T teachers did just that? You're shitting me...) This article ...

So here’s the situation: You’ve been teaching for quite a while. You’ve pretty much gotten a handle on classroom management, paperwork, classroom rules, and any number of the other day-to-day tasks we encounter. But how many of these teaching vices do you struggle with? I know I’m not guiltless in these areas. In fact, I’ve had run-ins with most of these ...

As I diligently and painstakingly research and document how our American educational system was conceived, its precise path and evolution into its current state I am compelled to reconsider my core assumption. My assumption was that the Great Experiment (The United States of America) had designed a system to reflect its unparalleled commitment to democracy, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ...