Poems Related to Teaching -- 2013-11-03

Poems Related to Teaching (2013-11-03 Sun)

Here below are some of my poems related to teaching.  I have listed them in loose categories.  The list is incomplete.  I will try to revise and update it from time to time.  Thanks for visiting. -- Arjun

Note added:   Those interested in a high school science teacher's personal views on teaching may also want to read some of my posts on the The Humble Subject Teacher  blog, such as the one On Teaching (2013 Sep).  Those who have the time may also wish to examine The Sample Bill of Rights for Teachers (2006).
    
A different, and perhaps more refreshing, perspective may be found in the last three stanzas of  Tutors Two.
      
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Students

My Dream -- a student's simple ambition, 2013

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Teachers and Others in the Schools
  
The Teacher  -- burnout: idealism and dedication against the harsh realities of the schools, 2013

To Our Gary  -- A teacher retires gracefully after thirty years, while working, to the end, till 6pm every day at his school.  2013.

Gerald Goldstein -- In Memoriam  -- remembering an extraordinary lab. specialist, 2006

Kathy McGunigle  -- a teacher's teacher, 2006

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Teaching / Personal / Philosophy

Teachers' Lounge  -- Past, present and future meet at the Brooklyn Studio School.  2006.

Tutors Two -- In the last three stanzas of this poem reflecting on my years teaching, I wonder where our best students are headed -- and offer them the advice, from the heart, that I cannot give them in my classes.  2012.
 
Teachers' Cafeteria -- Part I  -- at New Utrecht High School's new basement cafeteria, 2013

Teachers' Cafeteria -- Part II -- reflecting on commuting to Canarsie High School (1989-2002), 2013


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Resistance

The Small and Easy Lie -- Acceding to falsehoods imprisons us in a network of lies.  2013.

Never See the Light / Who's to Blame? -- We can change things for the better -- or let them get worse.  2013.
    
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Satire / Philosophy
 
Data Driven Supervision -- Need I say more?
   

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Rants and Edupolitics

New York City, De-Bloomed + Bloomberg's Gone -- local elections, 2013
  
With Harlot Falsehoods -- on integrity, 2013

Ted and Sarah and Bachman and Rhee -- on the state of the union

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Historical

Cafeteria in the Sky -- looking out from New Utrecht High School's old 6th floor cafeteria, 2006