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Darce Goes to School: September 2010
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Darce Goes to School. When I started this blog it was at the beginning of my career in teaching. I keep coming back to it as a place as a place to explore, imagine and share the things I am doing and the things I am thinking about in my teaching career. Tuesday, September 14, 2010. Using Google Apps in a Paperless English Classroom. Book group, a Bookcrossing. Community so that students could donate books to populate our bare shelves and through google sites I set up an English site with an online, self-...
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The Blackboard Jungle
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Days spent beating back the seeds of doubt. Sunday, May 14, 2006. Nicked from a letter to a friend and ex-colleague, one of several who's this term given up a career in inner city teaching:. Do I miss teaching? How many musicians and poets did I teach? How many politicians or philosphoers? How many lower echelon bank tellers, ex-cons, and checkout operators? Exactly. The stated aims, and the real aims of the british education system are constellations apart. The real aims? Posted by Lectrice @ 10:44 am.
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The Blackboard Jungle
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Days spent beating back the seeds of doubt. Sunday, November 27, 2005. Snowed out on Friday. The school is open but half the teachers can’t make it in, what with living in lovely remote middle class villages. I was stuck in my village surrounded on all sides by either 45 degree hills or impassable narrow roads (which are oddly surrounded by fields higher than the road, causing run off which freezes) freed by lunchtime but I had no lessons so stayed home and marked GCSE test-run papers. Leo 2 Rick 1.
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The Blackboard Jungle
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Days spent beating back the seeds of doubt. Tuesday, December 12, 2006. Like a naughty child avoiding her homework, I've. Began as a diary of teaching English literature to a bunch of disaffected, disturbed, and disarmingly creative adolescents in an inner city London comprehensive. This is what one would term a Difficult Day Job. When DfEE fatigue finally set in, I jumped ship at the big sign marked 'BURNT OUT: nearly there' and went travelling for . um, well, two years. Overkill? Read it, if you can.
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The Blackboard Jungle
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Days spent beating back the seeds of doubt. Tuesday, November 26, 2013. It has been a long time away. I ran my own private language school in the third world. I got cancer and emigrated to the UK. I started work at a massive (& superb) academy. And times changed. Whistleblower style blogging, personal style blogging - are on their way out. It's no longer acceptable to write publicly in the same style as I was once wont to do, here. Updates : rare. But alive. Posted by Lectrice @ 11:01 pm. Leo 2 Rick 1.
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Darce Goes to School: June 2010
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Darce Goes to School. When I started this blog it was at the beginning of my career in teaching. I keep coming back to it as a place as a place to explore, imagine and share the things I am doing and the things I am thinking about in my teaching career. Monday, June 28, 2010. Post 101 - getting lost. Apparently this is my 101st Blog at this site - it has only taken me 6 years to get there! Links to this post. Wednesday, June 16, 2010. What do I want to know about English in an open plan learning space?
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School Days: March 2007
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Thursday, March 08, 2007. A unique 'Birthday Eve' gift. Today I got a very unique and special Birthday Eve gift from one of my Year 9 girls. Something I had never had before. It came in unusual wrapping and exploded once opened. It was her eruption of vile language as she told me I was a fuckin. Whore, scrag, bitch, fuckin. To about that effect- and as incoherently too! She's been in a lot of trouble and about to be suspended- pressure plus! It made me realise how I had changed (grown? The warming part o...
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School Days: This is bloody ridiculous!
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008. This is bloody ridiculous! There are 2 days left until the end of a twelve week term, in the middle of Winter, with the class from hell. and I'm feeling motivated! I must be losing it! Why can't I just wind down and present the 'let's get this over with' face that every one else has on right now? I should be wearing brown, with unwashed hair and chipped nail polish, dragging my feet from place to place. This spring in my step and 'haute de courture' stylin' just won't do!
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Darce Goes to School: February 2010
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Darce Goes to School. When I started this blog it was at the beginning of my career in teaching. I keep coming back to it as a place as a place to explore, imagine and share the things I am doing and the things I am thinking about in my teaching career. Thursday, February 04, 2010. First day of Teaching at the new school! Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. First day of Teaching at the new school! An Identity of One's Own.
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School Days: Deliberating....
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008. As the end of the school year begins to creep up on us, I have some deliberating to do. This deliberation stems from my desire/need to leave my current principal behind. She's not someone that I am willing to work for any longer! At this stage, my options appear to be:. Option #1 Advertised position at MSC. Cons: One really big one. 12 month contract. Which means giving up ongoing AGAIN! And potentially putting back our baby making plans for who knows how long? Now I can stop...