after the bell

One difference between teaching a college course and teaching a high school course is the lack of continuity. Our teaching methods class meets one evening per week. This is very different from seeing students an hour each day every weekday. When you see your students everyday, you share what is going on with you and them, and as a teacher, you can relate everyday situations to what you are teaching, and maintain conversations that feed shared interests over days and weeks.

I miss these conversations because they I think they made what I was teaching more meaningful to me and my students.

I am hoping that “After the Bell” will be a place that I can share interesting things I learn about teaching during the week that might not make it into our short time together each week.

- J.