The Bean Cult
The Tattooed Teacher
by tattooteacher
3y ago
In the weeks of late summer last year, leading up to our return to school in the new pandemic world, there were a million questions in my mind. Questions about safety, and logistics, and technology. This was a new world we were heading into. One of my biggest questions was: How am I supposed to make a cohesive class out of two separate groups who never meet face to face? I had half  my class with me Monday and Thursday, the other half with me Tuesday and Friday. We would be ‘together’ over Zoom on Wednesdays, all of us remote that day. As the year got going, and we did our best to settle ..read more
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Ducklings
The Tattooed Teacher
by tattooteacher
3y ago
Like many teachers, I have been trying to use less gender specific terms. I was never really one to say ladies and gentleman, or boys and girls, but my go to phrase for addressing a group is ‘you guys’. Yes, guys doesn’t actually mean guys. However, in the same way saying ‘man’ to mean human technically includes women, guys as a way to use a male terms to mean everyone is also not great. We don’t say women to mean human, and know the men are included. If I addressed a mixed gender group as ‘girls’, the boys would not be happy. So gender neutral feels better to me. (And if you disagree, you hav ..read more
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Swamp Thing Finds a New Normal
The Tattooed Teacher
by tattooteacher
3y ago
This is officially the strangest moment in my teaching career, I thought to myself. It wasn’t because of the fact that I had a mask on my face, or that the 9 kids that represented the entirety of my class were masked, either. Sure, a global pandemic that had upended the entire world was definitely strange, but it had become normal. We were used to the day to day of life under covid. My students and I had made it our new normal. What was not normal was the fact that I was laying on my stomach in the icy slush, one hand gripping the side of a moss covered boulder so I wouldn’t topple in, and the ..read more
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A Different Kind of Superhero
The Tattooed Teacher
by tattooteacher
4y ago
“Teachers are super heroes.” You hear that sometimes, people pointing out the important work teachers do, the important role they play in society, the challenges they deal with. People think about the struggles of being a teacher, the thankless nature of the work. What they probably aren’t thinking about when they refer to us and our superpowers is the amazing ability to deal with all things awkward and handle them with tact, grace, or at the very least grim resolve. Personally, I think that is often our biggest superpower, especially for those of us who teach students going through the throes ..read more
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Blasphemy and Other Age Appropriate Topics
The Tattooed Teacher
by tattooteacher
5y ago
Kids are great about loudly and openly discussing sensitive topics, so of course religion is no different. I first learned this as an assistant teacher a decade ago. Out at recess on a snowy day, students discovered a small gouda cheese- the kind wrapped in red wax. Since it was waxless and had a bit out of it, I told them to throw away. They told me they were keeping it, and had named it cheesus. After a debate about whether to toss it, I confiscated the cheese and, in lieu of a better plan, hucked it into the parking lot. 5 minutes later, I came back to find they had built a shrine out of sn ..read more
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