"Her stories made me laugh, filled my eyes with tears, and most of all inspired me." Ashley Hammond, Kindergarten Teacher
Truthfully, when you start your teaching career, it won't be your knowledge of content that keeps you up at night. It won't be your mastery of the latest technology. It won't even be the standardized test. All of those can and do pose challenges, but the one thing even the best education program can't prepare you for are the kids. That's where this book comes into play. Time Out for Teachers is a chance to share some of one teacher's honest experience with kids. The good, the bad, and sometimes the ugly moments are all here, waiting for you to discover what teaching is all about.
Excerpt
Chapter One
School Daze
Everyone has at least one memory of school. Memories of recess, dusty chalkboards, the nice (or evil) lunch lady, or a best friend are at the top of the list. These memories make us long for those long crazy days in which the clock seemed to stand still while waiting for the school Christmas party to start. I often wish I could go back and live my childhood over again.
But wait! Because I’m a teacher, I get to do that Monday through Friday. Lucky me.
I am not alone in that I played school as a child, and wished I could be a teacher. Yet never in my wildest dreams did I even dare dream I would become a teacher. Up until the age of twenty-three I was scooping Ice cream at Brahms, packing lingerie at Kellwood’s, and wrestling kids at a daycare for $3.75 an hour. That, of course was a pretty good wage in 1980.
Unbeknownst to me, I was destined to become a teacher. I had far too many people involved in molding my life.
Book 3 continues the Commander and the Chief's adventures in political intrigue, superstition, old feuds, and the search of Nikola Tesla's missing papers in this Close Encounter of the Weird Kind.
Boom! Pain! Blackness!
After an RPG attack on their barracks in Afghanistan, corpsmen, Amber Fox and Luke Owens wake up in an Army hospital in Germany.
Thus, begins a four-month recovery for both of them. Amber lost her left leg bel
Retired! New start! Murder!
Todd, detective lieutenant, has retired from St. Louis, Missouri and has moved to Ford Valley, Arizona. When Todd’s ex-wife is killed in a car accident, Todd fights for custody of his teenage daughter. She has bee
