Comments on: School’s out, school’s out! Teachers let the monkeys out!! http://jmbalconi.stblogs.com/2008/06/13/schools-out-schools-out-teachers-let-the-monkeys-out/ Powered by StBlogs Catholic Blogs and Catholic News Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:14:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: jean http://jmbalconi.stblogs.com/2008/06/13/schools-out-schools-out-teachers-let-the-monkeys-out/#comment-122 jean Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:37:25 +0000 http://jmbalconi.stblogs.com/2008/06/13/schools-out-schools-out-teachers-let-the-monkeys-out/#comment-122 You know, I was at your website and thought, "She's too young to have been teaching that long!" I kind of forget that Time flies. :) I'm an old "young" teacher, having come from another career. I've been teaching 8 years, first in a now-defunct Catholic school in Detroit and now at a public school in Michigan's Thumb. My lesson-planning is rather interesting, as the state is making new foreign language requirements for the class of 2016... but no one knows what they are yet. I told my principal it feels a bit like being told "Be there by 3 o'clock" but being giving no more directions than "head north". So I'm reading the anonymous surveys that I gave my students to see what they'd like to do/learn next year. (I think I'll ignore the "no more tests" and "parties every Friday".) You know, I was at your website and thought, “She’s too young to have been teaching that long!” I kind of forget that Time flies. :)

I’m an old “young” teacher, having come from another career. I’ve been teaching 8 years, first in a now-defunct Catholic school in Detroit and now at a public school in Michigan’s Thumb.

My lesson-planning is rather interesting, as the state is making new foreign language requirements for the class of 2016… but no one knows what they are yet. I told my principal it feels a bit like being told “Be there by 3 o’clock” but being giving no more directions than “head north”.

So I’m reading the anonymous surveys that I gave my students to see what they’d like to do/learn next year. (I think I’ll ignore the “no more tests” and “parties every Friday”.)

]]> By: Laura http://jmbalconi.stblogs.com/2008/06/13/schools-out-schools-out-teachers-let-the-monkeys-out/#comment-121 Laura Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:14:19 +0000 http://jmbalconi.stblogs.com/2008/06/13/schools-out-schools-out-teachers-let-the-monkeys-out/#comment-121 I teach 6th, 7th, and 8th grade language arts and 6th grade religion in a k-8 in DC. I have been teaching for 21 years...... I teach 6th, 7th, and 8th grade language arts and 6th grade religion in a k-8 in DC.

I have been teaching for 21 years……

]]> By: jean http://jmbalconi.stblogs.com/2008/06/13/schools-out-schools-out-teachers-let-the-monkeys-out/#comment-120 jean Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:56:44 +0000 http://jmbalconi.stblogs.com/2008/06/13/schools-out-schools-out-teachers-let-the-monkeys-out/#comment-120 What do you teach, Laura? What do you teach, Laura?

]]> By: Laura http://jmbalconi.stblogs.com/2008/06/13/schools-out-schools-out-teachers-let-the-monkeys-out/#comment-119 Laura Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:03:39 +0000 http://jmbalconi.stblogs.com/2008/06/13/schools-out-schools-out-teachers-let-the-monkeys-out/#comment-119 I love the fact that you are doing your next year's planning. I am doing the same. I love the fact that you are doing your next year’s planning. I am doing the same.

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