How You Know You Used to Be a Teacher by Mark Lyons Image by Steve Buissinne from Pixabay SammySocks Etc. Blog - Comments and Observations from Someone Who Is a Retired Educator and the Father of Sammy of SammySocks Etc. Visit us at www.sammysocksetc.com. How does a teacher know that he or she used to be a teacher? Also, how do others know that someone used to be a teacher? Here are a few ways you and others can tell. You have a yearning for school lunches. You find yourself at the corner intersection nearest your house or apartment at 7:15 am stopping traffic when someone wants to cross the street. You have an unusual desire at 3:00 pm every...
How You Know It’s Summer If You Are a Teacher by Mark Lyons Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay SammySocks Etc. Blog - Comments and Observations from Someone Who Is a Retired Educator and the Father of Sammy of SammySocks Etc. Visit us at www.sammysocksetc.com. Summers have been around for a long time. So have teachers. But how do teachers know it’s summer? Here are a few ways they can tell. They’ve almost forgotten what lessons plans are. They can’t smell their classroom anymore. They get home before 6:00 pm. Their writing hand is cramp free. No paper cuts. They get used to people calling them by their first name (or just Mom or Dad). They’ve stop counting down the days...
In-Service Training I Think I Had Over My Years as a Teacher by Mark Lyons Image by Steve Buissinne from Pixabay SammySocks Etc. Blog - Comments and Observations from Someone Who Is a Retired Educator and the Father of Sammy of SammySocks Etc. Visit us at www.sammysocksetc.com. Ah, I sometimes long for the times as a teacher when we had in-service days. Often these days were held during the summer. Other times they were held at the beginning of the school year before the students arrived on campus. Some in-service sessions were also held during the school year providing a bit of a break from the regular school day. Many of these in-service days consisted of training required by the...
The Budget by Mark Lyons Image by Chris Pastrick from Pixabay SammySocks Etc. Blog - Comments and Observations from Someone Who Is a Retired Educator and the Father of Sammy of SammySocks Etc. Visit us at www.sammysocksetc.com. Budgets are great! They really are! You get to see that you are definitely spending too much money, and you get to know exactly where you are spending the money with the full knowledge that you will probably never ever be able to reign in you and your family’s spending let alone save for college, retirement, or even a candy bar. Makes for great sleeping! That was one reason to keep a budget. Oh, there’s more! Here are a few. You and...
One of the Greatest! by Mark Lyons Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay SammySocks Etc. Blog - Comments and Observations from Someone Who Is a Retired Educator and the Father of Sammy of SammySocks Etc. Visit us at www.sammysocksetc.com. *** A play-by-play announcer along with a color commentator speak quietly into their microphones. “Bob, here we are today. The sun is shining just over the early morning horizon in a clear blue sky. The trees are budding. The birds are chirping. The sweet fragrance of flowers fills the air. It is the quintessential perfect day for the start of the season.” “You are so right, Akeem. Fans have been waiting all autumn and winter for this day. And by...
