A Typical Day
The following post first appeared here at History Is Elementary in September, 2006 and is titled A Typical Day . This particular post was picked up and printed in its entirety for a USA Today article regarding teachers who blog. This post deals with testing and how testing weeks can turn a school upside down…..how a typical day can become anything but typical. The picture posted here is my classroom as it appeared in 2006. Today, a lovely friend of mine has custody of MY room, and I’m glad she’s the one keeping watch over it. So if you came to my classroom this week or next would you see a typical day in Elementaryhistoryteacher’s classroom? Unfortunately you would miss out. It simply wouldn’t happen. My school has entered the realm of CRAZY SCHOOL which is a parallel universe created by all of the education stakeholders across America. CRAZY SCHOOL is where you take a smooth running machine that has been in operation for some five weeks and throw it to the four winds. The result is a ...