Tag: student

  • What Teachers Do

    What Teachers Do

    I have been teaching for a few years now.  It has been the most interesting and funny enough – educational time in my life.  I’ve spent most of my life in school. I was thinking about What Teachers Do, and there are so many things that teachers do.  But the…

  • Your Dumb Teacher

    Your Dumb Teacher

    …….might have given you a label that some lazy teacher gives them.  It happens all the time – a lazy teacher who doesn’t know how to care for a child will label him and get him out of her class – because teaching for her is a job and not…

  • My Student Identity

    My Student Identity

    I miss my student identity.  Well, I miss the learning and the studying. I don’t miss the deadlines.  I don’t miss paying for school.  I don’t miss studying and researching with expectations.  I don’t miss the drive up to the university.  I don’t miss needing to be in the library…

  • Story

    Story

    I love hearing stories.  I love hearing stories that are made up.  I think I like real stories way better.  I love it when my friends share stories. I heard a story today of how the unknown played out in an exciting and favorable way.  I had a student share…

  • Masters

    Masters

    I had a great Twitter conversation with Hugh MacLeod @gapingvoid – about masters having students.  He said: gapingvoid Hugh MacLeod  All masters have students, whether they want them or not. That’s why they’re masters. We then had this Twitter conversation about teachers and masters, and how they were once students.…

  • Teaching Magic

    Teaching Magic

    I’m sitting at a Starbucks.  Right in front of me is a student and teacher.  It’s private tutoring or something.  It’s pretty clear though that one is teach and one is learning.  It’s such a great sight to behold.  You can see it in the body language – in the…

  • My Dr Identity

    My Dr Identity

    I am not yet Dr. Lem Usita.  I’m working on it.  In fact, I worked on it all day.  I’ve worked on it for years. I have never been motivated by one day being called Dr.  In fact, when I get it, I will not make anyone call me that.…