Author Archives: emilyebling

This week, I asked a colleague to contribute to the dialogue as a first year teacher. Her experience is as follows! A Day in the Life of a First Year Middle School Teacher Today was the first day back after Thanksgiving Break and it went surprisingly well. Today was also the day that I realizedContinue reading “A Day in the Life of…”

My students had the opportunity this week to visit with a nonprofit organization at their facility. For this experience, I placed students in groups based upon their interests. Once at the facility, students worked together within their group to make a decision and create a solution for a given problem. The groups that students wereContinue reading “Digital Reputation and Our Responsibility as Adults”

Middle School is awkward. Kids are awkward. Teachers are in turn awkward, maybe intentionally but mostly not. As I think about when I was a middle school student, I think back to all of the weird things that I had done or seen at school. Sumo wrestling with the band teacher, pushing a friend outContinue reading “The Best Things in Life are found in the Middle School Classroom”

What a first bog post title huh?! Let’s start a blog about teaching middle school and how it is so fun and every little obstacle you come across can be made into a happy little tree (thanks Bob Ross!). Then, the first post is about the worst day teaching in middle school. The day IContinue reading “The day I was ready to quit..”