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What it’s really like to teach Gen Z
People love to hate on Gen Z. They say that teenagers have no attention span. They can’t do anything for themselves. They are addicted to their phones. They don’t respect authority. They don’t know how to have a face-to-face conversation. People are often intimidated or confused by teenagers, and as a high school teacher I…
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Where in the World?!
Daily writing prompt: If you won two free plane tickets, where would you go? I’m a Spanish teacher, and my husband roasts coffee, so obviously we are going to lean towards a Spanish-speaking country. I’ve already visited a few of these amazing countries, and I would return to any of them in a heartbeat.
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Never Say Never
This week I will begin my third year teaching high school Spanish, but the path to get here wasn’t what you may think. I started college as a Biology major with a plan to become an Occupational Therapist, and as a young, not-so-driven freshman in college, I arranged my schedule so that I would only…
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