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Teaching, not Categorizing
Teaching, not Categorizing ©By Vijaya Sundaram March 5, 2013 Today, having filled them out carefully over the weekend, the teachers in the Eighth Grade passed out the “High School Course Selection /...
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Classroom Eddies of Swirling Colored Tissue Paper and White Snowflakes...
OR: A Day in the Life of this Eighth Grade English Teacher ©By Vijaya Sundaram March 7th, 2013 Today was a day of non-academic messiness. We had finished John Steinbeck’s book The Pearl almost two...
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Face your …
Ramblings about Courage and Fear ©Vijaya Sundaram March 24th 2013 My daughter is in the next room, playing “My Grandfather’s Clock,” which my husband is teaching her on the guitar, and it’s sweet to...
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What does it mean to be a teacher?
What Does it Mean to Be a Teacher? ©By Vijaya Sundaram March 28th, 2013 It means that you: Give unstintingly of your attention to your student or students who are there to learn from you. Not allow...
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Daily-ness and Disaster
Daily-ness and Disaster ©By Vijaya Sundaram April 22nd, 2013 How banal, how mundane How silly, how pointless Our lives seem! Sitting in class, pencils in hand Trying to be good, while The teacher gazes...
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Exit
Exit –A Poem ©By Vijaya Sundaram September 26th, 2013 So we are born, we grow old, we die. What a waste of all those universes! What a waste of all those stories! All those histories vanish into the...
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