Teaching (about Teaching): Haikus
By Meg Davis Roberts
The breakroom Folgers coffee pot Knows more about teaching Than any dissertation What’s the word for the kind Of dry your hands get after Cutting too many tiny discussion prompt slips?
Funeral holdings We pass from hand to hand His latest essay
That sacred kind of Friday in June tired Erasing the whiteboard The students circle the student Training to be a teacher She leads Period six I wonder how many times I’ve read it— This projected poem
Can Wiggins and McTighe Backward design for love?
How do I explain that the Learning target is a bullseye Around your entire being?
I understand better How the priest must feel Teaching about teaching
HVWP COMMONPLACE 27
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