I've taught a lot of different grades and I have a variety of experience. Most teachers teach a grade at a school for awhile (lucky), but that wasn't what happened with most of my career. I have been teaching 8 years now and I feel like I finally found a "home" and am teaching a grade I have taught previously so I can get really good at it. With that being said, I like to create. If I can't find something, I will make it. As a result of that, I had a colleague suggest I try my hand at Teachers Pay Teachers. I was already making it, might as well put it up, right? Wallah! Here's a blog!
I came up with the name "Those Who Can" after my husband and I were talking about what to call a teacher store. Somehow the saying "Those who can't, teach" was brought up and the name of the store was born. I don't know what idiot came up with that saying, but clearly, he was not a teacher.
Teaching Experience:
My first year was in a 5/6 classroom in a one school district. I had 11 students, which seems easy, until you realize they've been together since kindergarten and so it is more like 11 brothers and sisters. My sixth graders graduated high school last year and my fifth graders graduated this year! Eek! How did that happen?
I also was a reading interventionist in Chicago for 4-8th graders and a reading coach in another Chicago K-8 school. I really enjoyed working in the city, but the mayor shuttered 50 schools and laid off all non-tenured teachers.
I've worked in two schools in Florida and have taught 1st- 3rd grades. This is my third year of third grade. 😃
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