Tag: teach

• “Being There: Education in an Emergency” in Lunch Ticket

  

  It’s been a long time since I’ve written about my experiences in education, and the emotional weight of trying to access the feelings of this year kept me from making the effort. But for the Lunch Ticket blog, I wrote about what the pandemic has been like for teachers and students in Texas. It was…

  Ben Lewellyn-Taylor

  November 14, 2020

  Teaching, writing

  classroom, education, school, students, teach, teaching

• You Are Alive

  I used to believe a lie. Even though I am ultra-cool now to everyone who knows me (I can hear some of you snickering), I used to be uncool. Rather, I used to be ashamed of being uncool. In the 6th grade, I was bullied for being the scrawny nerd who believed he could play…

  Ben Lewellyn-Taylor

  May 12, 2014

  Teaching

  27th line, alive, bully, bullying, education, life, students, teach, teaching, voice, worth

• The 27th Line

  Tomorrow my students will take their first round of STAAR testing in Writing, a subject I teach twice a day. The test is scored by their responses to 40 multiple-choice revising and editing questions along with 2 essays—one narrative and one expository. Although the Writing test is one of three they must pass in the…

  Ben Lewellyn-Taylor

  March 31, 2014

  Teaching

  children, common core, education, staar, story, students, teach, teaching, testing, value, worth, writing