One World, One Heart

For the most part, I only sub for elementary and middle school. During the rare free moments I get, I love to peruse the little libraries [just about] every classroom has.

I found one treasure in one classroom, called One World, One Heart. I noticed the web address, and I had to write it down. Unfortunately they are no longer printing free copies of the colorful book.

You can see this 21 page book of poetry in it's entirety online, here: One World, One Heart.

What is it about?:

One World, One Heart by Susan Polis Schutz
In response to the tragic events of September 11, 2001, writer Susan Polis Schutz and illustrator Stephen Schutz created this comforting and inspiring poetry collection.
Everyone has the same basic needs and emotions. This book encourages people everywhere to put aside their differences and come together as one in peace, understanding, and tolerance.

Doctor? Teacher?

I've always felt that a teacher's job was just as important as, if not more important than, a doctor's job.

As a future full-time teacher ... I've truly realized how very little respect teachers get.

If you're lucky an elementary teacher may get 30 minutes for lunch. Time to breathe ... there's no time for that!!!

Suggestion:

• Mr. Great Teacher, Ed.
• Mrs. Great Teacher, Ed.
• Dr. Great Doctor, MD

Here I will document my life as {da .... da ... da ......... dun!!!!} SUBSTITUTE TEACHER!!!!!

Middle School - Science Class
Test day

The teacher left a message instructing me to spread everyone out, and the students are not to not have anything on their desk.

I always walk around making sure everything is A-OK. Somehow I missed this one kid. He had his notes out. On glance I couldn't tell, because he was sitting by the computer table, along with a stack of papers and notebook tha the teacher left there. On closer inspection, he had his notes on top of one of those stacks!!!!! I took it away. And shortly after, he asked to go to the nurse.

Ok, whatever. I wrote a long note to the nurse, to let her know the situation, it went something like this:

Dear nurse, this is the substitute for ___ . Please be aware that this student is in the middle of a test and he hasn't finished the test. I don't know these students well enough to decipher if they are really sick.....

I was pretty sure she'd send him right back ... and she did!!! He came back within a few minutes. She diagnosed him as being "sick of school." [and drew a happy face next to her note] I don't throw away the passes I send out, when the come back, I leave it for the teacher to examine.

BTW, he didn't finished the test. He had the nerve to write "didn't finish test" on his paper. And if the teacher was naive enough [I doubt it]... to let him finish it the kid never asked for his notes back, and even with his book ... I KNOW he's not going to go home and read the chapter. Yeah, he didn't finish his test, but he also didn't work up until the bell rang. I had another student who continued to work after the bell. I didn't have a problem with that. He said his next class was PE, so I wrote a pass saying that he was finishing his test ... hey, it's his teacher's call, either he can accept it or ignore it and give him a tardy. I'm just the messenger!