Topic: Teaching
Dear So-called Average Teacher
Guest Blog By Julie Holderbaum, Minerva EA/OEA | Now that summer is here and you have time to breathe and reflect on the school year that just ended, maybe you’re feeling that your year was just, well, average. We don’t always see, in immediate hindsight, the seeds that we have planted and the impact that we have had…
Silent Tears
By Tina Allen of the @ColumbusEA/OEA | I joined this profession to change lives, to educate, motivate and inspire. High-stakes testing almost took that away from me. The tears of a fourth grader reminded me what’s important.
Nominate an Outstanding Teacher for ODE’s Newest Professional Recognition
In collaboration with the Ohio Department of Education (ODE), Ohio’s TORCH recognition honors five extraordinary teachers annually by celebrating their efforts to model strong character and a heart for their students, colleagues and community.
You Belong — Ohio’s New Educators
Ohio’s New Educators (ONE) is a unique community within the Ohio Education Association (OEA) supporting early career educators and education support professionals in their first years of education. Our statewide network engages and empowers educators and education support professionals in the first 10 years of their career to become successful, active and visible in their profession and community through collective action.
This Does Not Compute
My hands hovered over the keyboard as my brain caught up to what my fingers had just typed. Did I really just make that comment to a student? “The computer won’t know that this fragment works as part of your …
The Sound of Silence … Worth the Consequences?
One of the first lessons a child learns in school is to listen and be quiet. Silence is often desired in schools, unless we ask for participation. But lately, I’m beginning to wonder if we are doing our students a …
Is Revised RESA a Reason to Rejoice?
Part II of II: Teacher Perspectives on the Resident Educator Summative Assessment Read Part I: My Marathon Swim Through RESA by Dan Greenberg, Sylvania Education Association I’m getting to a place where I can look back nostalgically on twenty years …
Part II: Teaching, post-Charlottesville
By Dan Greenburg, Sylvania Education Association As I plan my lessons for the start of a new school year, I hear student voices in the back of my head, asking “Why do we have to learn this?” I use that …
Part I: Teaching, post-Charlottesville
By Julie Rine, Minerva Education Association If we haven’t already, many of us will soon be giving a lecture about the importance of being respectful to others, following the rules, and being nice. We are going to discuss how name-calling …
