How many teachers do we have?

[MutantKeys]

I feel bad for the teachers in cities like LA, Detriot, and NY

[Detroit MIke]

I feel bad for the teachers in cities like LA, Detriot, and NY

 

Thanks Danny. It's a living and it does give me the funds for my hobby.

[MutantKeys]

I feel bad for the teachers in cities like LA, Detriot, and NY

 

Thanks Danny. It's a living and it does give me the funds for my hobby.

Glad to hear your fine. I know how rough it is since I went to school in Brooklyn. Most kids have no respect for the teachers. I was one of the few that respected them.

[gorgoguy]

My wife is a teacher and she puts up with my ........ does that count? She also has to live with the fact that I can fill a closet with short boxes too.

 

[thirdgreenham]

I taught English in Taiwan for 3 years. That's where I met my wife, and that's why there's a link to our website in my sig line. Fantastic experience, but I had to put my comic collecting habits on hold for those 3 years. Well worth going abroad and seeing other countries and cultures. If anyone is considering going overseas to teach English, don't hesitate to ask me if you have any questions.

 

Sept. 28th is "Teacher's Day"

 

Andy

[comicdonna]

I feel bad for the teachers in cities like LA, Detriot, and NY

 

Thanks Danny. It's a living and it does give me the funds for my hobby.

Glad to hear your fine. I know how rough it is since I went to school in Brooklyn. Most kids have no respect for the teachers. I was one of the few that respected them.

Teacher's pet!

[MutantKeys]

I feel bad for the teachers in cities like LA, Detriot, and NY

 

Thanks Danny. It's a living and it does give me the funds for my hobby.

Glad to hear your fine. I know how rough it is since I went to school in Brooklyn. Most kids have no respect for the teachers. I was one of the few that respected them.

Teacher's pet!

[comick1]

I've been a teacher of 3rd grade in SD City Schools for the past 12 years. It's been a good gig. My wife's been teaching for almost as long in SDCS. We both got our masters in EdTech at SDSU.

I'm always doing my best to share my passion for comics with my students. Looking for G-rated kid-friendly comics that are accessible and high interest. In case anybody ever feels the need to pass on some Little Lulus, Scrooges (or other disney ducks/mice), Richie Rich, Hot Stuff, Archies (they especially eat up the digests), Dennis the Menaces, Garfield treasuries, Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts paperbacks, I can think of loads of 8 year-olds every year that LOVE them and would avidly read them. Superfriends or Spidey Superstories are easy readers from the 70s that are high interest as well. Beater copies are just fine.

I have a small library of the above mentioned, but I also keep a "treasure box" for good behavior. Kids collect good behavior points and turn them in for treasures, most of which are comics. Far and away, the most popular are the ducks, Archie digests, and the Spidey Superstories.

Kids also like a modern comic called "Teen Titans, GO!" which is a spin-off of a TV series that they watch religiously. Akiko is also a WONDERFUL modern series for that age level and has a girl as the protagonist which is nice because so many of the modern comics are very male oriented (I understand how the market has catered to that crowd in the past 30 or so years, and it's a function of a bunch of factors all at once. . .but my reality is that girls comprise 50% of my classes and as much as they enjoy Uncle Scrooge, Archies, or even Spiderman, they MOSTLY respond to stuff with girls as the protagonists just as boys tend to respond to males as protagonists. Not everybody fits this trend, and that's fine, too.) Friends of Lulu is a great organization that promotes female (youth and adult) comics reading and I've gotten some good ideas from them about what titles to carry in my class for the girls, but these titles are generally NOT sitting around in most collectors closets waiting to be donated to a good cause.

Anybody feeling like giving these to a good home, let me know by PM. I promise you they'll be loved and we'll be fostering an interest in comics as well as helping to jack up the literacy rate (at least in my corner of the world).

 

 

[Scrooge]

Friends of Lulu is a great organization that promotes female (youth and adult) comics reading and I've gotten some good ideas from them about what titles to carry in my class for the girls, but these titles are generally NOT sitting around in most collectors closets waiting to be donated to a good cause.

 

Do you have a specific list of titles?

[jonjesper]

I've been a teacher of 3rd grade in SD City Schools for the past 12 years. It's been a good gig. My wife's been teaching for almost as long in SDCS. We both got our masters in EdTech at SDSU.

I'm always doing my best to share my passion for comics with my students. Looking for G-rated kid-friendly comics that are accessible and high interest. In case anybody ever feels the need to pass on some Little Lulus, Scrooges (or other disney ducks/mice), Richie Rich, Hot Stuff, Archies (they especially eat up the digests), Dennis the Menaces, Garfield treasuries, Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts paperbacks, I can think of loads of 8 year-olds every year that LOVE them and would avidly read them. Superfriends or Spidey Superstories are easy readers from the 70s that are high interest as well. Beater copies are just fine.

I have a small library of the above mentioned, but I also keep a "treasure box" for good behavior. Kids collect good behavior points and turn them in for treasures, most of which are comics. Far and away, the most popular are the ducks, Archie digests, and the Spidey Superstories.

Kids also like a modern comic called "Teen Titans, GO!" which is a spin-off of a TV series that they watch religiously. Akiko is also a WONDERFUL modern series for that age level and has a girl as the protagonist which is nice because so many of the modern comics are very male oriented (I understand how the market has catered to that crowd in the past 30 or so years, and it's a function of a bunch of factors all at once. . .but my reality is that girls comprise 50% of my classes and as much as they enjoy Uncle Scrooge, Archies, or even Spiderman, they MOSTLY respond to stuff with girls as the protagonists just as boys tend to respond to males as protagonists. Not everybody fits this trend, and that's fine, too.) Friends of Lulu is a great organization that promotes female (youth and adult) comics reading and I've gotten some good ideas from them about what titles to carry in my class for the girls, but these titles are generally NOT sitting around in most collectors closets waiting to be donated to a good cause.

Anybody feeling like giving these to a good home, let me know by PM. I promise you they'll be loved and we'll be fostering an interest in comics as well as helping to jack up the literacy rate (at least in my corner of the world).

 

 

 

Interestingly enough...

I wrote my thesis on comic books in education. The original data showed that girls in my classroom had no interest in comic books. Once introduced, the vast majority enjoyed reading comics, as it was something different. Amelia Rules was a very popular comic, but so was Teen Titans Go!

A lot of teachers have been against comics (even the people I work with laugh when I bring up comics as a viable alternative instead of chapter books), but now that the Library Journal is pushing them and they see our students checking them out from the school library they are becoming softer on their stance.

I tell people all the time, especially parents...

Reading is reading, show your children different options and let them decide what constitutes leisure reading for them and what they believe has literary merit in their lives. When they have options and can choose what they enjoy often they will branch off into other forms of literacy.

 

[Mac Man]

Cool thread. After four years in the service, I taught at the university level (English) as an adjunct part time while working on my master full time. I'm finishing my thesis now while working as a Learning Specialist at a college prep school for high school kids with learning disabilities. Not my ideal location, but it's job experience until I can start a Ph.D. program next fall.

[HOTFLIPS]

I was a physical education teacherfor 3 years and a fifth grade special ed teacher for 2 in brooklyn, ny. got my masters degree in ESL. i gave it up to do this full-time.

[cortez]

I am a 3rd and 4th grade special ed teacher in Michigan.

 

Working on my 2nd master's degree.

 

Comics come in handy with my students who'll read them when they won't read anything else.

[rtarturo]

Hello all,

I am a relative newcomer, lurking, posting and buying since last summer.

 

I'm a middle school Latin teacher here on Long Island in my 7th year at my current location.

As a Latin teacher I've got it pretty good because no one really quite understands what it is I do, I'm sort of my own curriculum.

 

Nice to know there are some fellow teachers here.

[Primetime]

I figured that since the lawyers and the engineers got their own thred, we teachers should get our own as well.

I teach 7th grade sci/ss

Got my undergrad from Appalachian State in 99 and my masters in middle grade ed in 2003.

Wife is also a teacher.

 

I teach Junior High and High School Bible, Science, and PE...I'm a new teacher as of last summer after working 9 years in Corporate Wellness and Health

[CDaBruce]

Just discovered this thread. Hello to all my fellow teachers!

 

I am a High School English teacher in my 9th year of teaching here in Northern California. I have taught all skill levels and grades. Am currently teaching Sophomore Honors students and the Advanced Placement Seniors along with Regular Ed. Juniors.

 

I use comic book references all the time; the kids get them mainly because of the movies. I have often thought of having a box of reader comics.

 

 

[Mac Man]

Yeah English!

[Detroit MIke]

 

this is how i roll.....

[bronzilla]

Im not a teacher, but I just want to tell all you Guys and Gals how much it is appreciated the time and effort you all put into our kids. If I ran the World you all would be getting the big salaries reserved for movie and sport celebrities.

You all work your A#@ES off. I tell you a good teacher can make a world of difference in a kids life.

 

Thanks!!!!

[joeypost]

Im not a teacher, but I just want to tell all you Guys and Gals how much it is appreciated the time and effort you all put into our kids. If I ran the World you all would be getting the big salaries reserved for movie and sport celebrities.

You all work your A#@ES off. I tell you a good teacher can make a world of difference in a kids life.

 

Thanks!!!!

 

(thumbs u