Erica 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.
This word of the day is also a Shakespearean quote: I abhor this dilatory sloth. (Henry VIII) I have found students to be dilatory in the completion of their work, but I have also found that teachers are often dilatory in grading papers!
The word of the day is remuneration--pay or recompense.Teachers go into the profession knowing that remuneration will be secondary as a reward for their efforts. A teacher's major recompense is always intangible.... Read More Topics:
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Making news this week was a study, published in the Monthly Labor Review, that finds that teachers work about the same number of hours as other professionals six days a week, but are twice as likely to work on Sundays.So what else is new? This weekend... Read More Topics:
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My education column today in the DC Examiner is on the monsters teachers become in May during standardized test time. In my case, it's the Advanced Placement test in my course that looms in a little over a week. My teaching partner,... Read More Topics:
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