Category Archives: Teachers

give-and-take compliments

Posted on July 24, 2015 by bakrawiec

It’s one thing to think complimentary thoughts about someone; it’s quite another thing to verbalize the compliment to that person. I hadn’t really considered the difficulty inherent in verbalizing compliments—maybe because I didn’t give many?—until a reading supervisor raised my … Continue reading →

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thanks for understanding

Posted on July 23, 2015 by bakrawiec

One of the interesting dynamics of being an elementary school librarian is the number of daily thank you’s received from students, with this clarification. Invariably at the end of each library session, as part of the lining-up departure protocol, classroom … Continue reading →

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role reversal

Posted on July 21, 2015 by bakrawiec

As unimaginably sad as it is when a teacher loses a current or former students, so unimaginably joyful it is for a teacher to encounter a former student who validates time spent in the classroom. I had that unexpected joy … Continue reading →

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retirement downer: outliving one’s children

Posted on July 20, 2015 by bakrawiec

Just as popular wisdom says that parents shouldn’t outlive their children, it strikes me that teachers shouldn’t outlive their classroom-children, either. (As an adult school GED teacher, as well as university adjunct, I have had students older than I, including … Continue reading →

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