Dec 27 2007
Are We Ever Like Jesse James?
David Deubel not only keeps everything running at EFL Classroom – he also provides an enormous amount of resources helpful to all teachers. Plus, he has a “thread” where he shares great stories applicable to teaching. Here’s his latest contribution — a poem that all of us who are teachers at any grade level might want to think about:
The Memoirs of Jessie James
– Richard Brautigan
I remember all those thousands of hours that I spent in grade school watching the clock,
waiting for recess or lunch or to go home.
Waiting: for anything but school.
My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James
for all the time they stole from me.
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Thanks for sharing this! I was just discussing last week with a colleague how little I remember from grade school and how much more important that makes the information (and teachers who taught that information) that I DO remember. I’m trying to keep that in mind as I’m teaching……….
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