Steal time. Teach Zinn instead of APUSH. Teach test taking skills instead of test material and spend the rest of the time teaching what you want. Organize on your planning time. Refuse to send kids to the disciplinarian. Take attendance and then offer a hall pass to anyone who wants to cut class. Don't fail anyone demographically likely to drop or fail out. Cover the security camera in your room with a hanging poster. Encourage adversarial readings of garbage like lord of the flies. Bring activists into your classroom as guest speakers.
Those are all great but I should have been more specific. I teach esl, so most of my work involves taking it Mad easy on mostly chill immigrants. We don’t ever fail anyone, and the attendance and participation policy of late has been top tier lax. The school treats the students very well (cash cow). The teachers however...
Anyways, at least for when I did the upper levels, I tried to get more into the weeds about shitty American /global politics but ive also been chastised for wanting to talk about the black panthers.
Steal time. Teach Zinn instead of APUSH. Teach test taking skills instead of test material and spend the rest of the time teaching what you want. Organize on your planning time. Refuse to send kids to the disciplinarian. Take attendance and then offer a hall pass to anyone who wants to cut class. Don't fail anyone demographically likely to drop or fail out. Cover the security camera in your room with a hanging poster. Encourage adversarial readings of garbage like lord of the flies. Bring activists into your classroom as guest speakers.
Those are all great but I should have been more specific. I teach esl, so most of my work involves taking it Mad easy on mostly chill immigrants. We don’t ever fail anyone, and the attendance and participation policy of late has been top tier lax. The school treats the students very well (cash cow). The teachers however...
Anyways, at least for when I did the upper levels, I tried to get more into the weeds about shitty American /global politics but ive also been chastised for wanting to talk about the black panthers.