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Erica Jacobs
Education ExaminerErica Jacobs is the Education columnist for the DC Examiner, and has taught high school and college for 33 years. She has been around the education block! Email her at ejacob1@gmu.edu.
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Is There Education After the Test?
Erica Jacobs - Education Examiner
My students took "the test" at the end of last week, and we have our first "real" class after that event on Monday. What is life like in the classroom after the test has been given? We've been preparing since Day 1 for this moment, and students find it hard to imagine what comes next.Of course for teachers, the class is about far more than the test. My column in Monday's DC Examiner is about how student/teacher expectations differ, and about our respective definitions of "education." The unfortunate truth is that most teachers give up along with the students at the end of the year. No one's watching, the test is over, and everyone's looking forward to summer. I think this resignation is sad, and try to fight it somewhat---perhaps only with partial success.
Topics: teacher , test.student , after
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Powerful "Teacher Movie"
Erica Jacobs - Education Examiner
This film encapsulates everything I have tried to avoid for 30 years. All future teachers should watch this.... Read More
Topics: teacher , video
Fridays in the Classroom
Erica Jacobs - Education Examiner
Fridays, Fridays.First of all, on Fridays, high school seniors--especially if the weather is nice--stay home. Not all of them, of course, but enough so that taking roll is a ten-minute activity. The Boynton cartoon "The little joys of teaching are... Read More
Topics: fridays , student , teacher , college
Teacher Blogs
Erica Jacobs - Education Examiner
I have written a couple of columns for the Examiner on the need for teachers to speak out more in education. We hear from administrators and education consultants, and academics in education who teach only college students, but where... Read More
Topics: blog , teacher , voices
A Steep Learning Curve
Erica Jacobs - Education Examiner
I learned to read gradually, and my writing was pretty awful until I went to college, when I also learned to read much more carefully than I had in high school. But technology just came at me all at once in my middle age and the learning curve has been... Read More
Topics: word , day , learning , student , blog , Examiner , teacher
