#teaching

[shitacademicswrite]

[marisashorror]

It got brought up at work, so I thought I'd ask about it here too:

English teachers: is there a reason 95% of the books we read in class were all so sad and upsetting? I can remember maybe one book that wasn't depressing. There's gotta be uplifting ones that could be added, right?

Maybe its changed since I was in school, but all I remember is books like The Grapes of Wrath, Where the red fern grows, A child called it, Taroh says beware, Scarlett Letter, On my honor, Gatsby, Cuckoos nest etc...

Some sad/upsetting books are crucial to read, but it felt really unbalanced and negative and I was wondering if there was a reason.

[muzzledhorse]

on learning teaching.

[pristineartproject]

Tutorial: How to Draw as a Young Artist

Hi, I have heard that some parents don't believe in artistic nudity, despite A) useful art books traditionally using imagery of unclothed people, (note: I have never seen these books, as I didn't think of it or of going to a library 🤷) and B) the aforementioned strict parenting harms the artistic progression of the youth.

I suggest finding reference.

Urgent

The human body is "perfect" and no 3D modeling software, app for 3D models, Barbie doll, ball-jointed doll, action figure, or anime posing figurine is able to capture it fully and properly.

You learn a little more with every person (or animal, plant, object, or building) you draw.

For references, use...

Anatomy using medical quality, musculoskeletal images

Stock images of people in diving suits, superhero costumes, ballerinas, ice skaters, gymnasts, beachgoers

Sequence photography

Screenshots of moving people from videos

360 degree photography (?) or videos (?)

Modeling digitals (clothed)

For free websites, use...

Adorkastock (clothed, but it's humans who appear to have beachwear)

Pexels

Pixabay

Pinterest, although copyrights may be hidden somewhere in there

Youtube for sports videos

Other

For non-virtual options, use a sketchbook with grid paper, head to the park, and draw random people.

For daily instructions made by me, use...

Please reblog, note, and follow. Drawing is important and artists are struggling to draw better as early as possible.

[trilobiter]

Every day of my professional life amounts to telling teenagers variations on the following:

"Google is not a source of information. Google is a tool for locating sources of information. Google does not know anything. Google can only tell you what somebody else said they know. It is up to you to evaluate the reliability of what Google presents you with."

[stingrayextraordinaire]

Another year, another group of my delightful ninth graders trying to spell the word "tragedy" for their Romeo and Juliet assignment.

Last year's collection

[onlytiktoks]

[political-us]

Teachers protest education funding cuts

[incognitopolls]

For the purposes of this poll, assume the topic is something that you're good at or well versed in; i.e. you possess the information needed, this is just asking how good you are at conveying that information/skill to another person.

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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

[jstor]

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[where-our-stories-start]

He taught you well. He did.

[bobelhosary]

Hello my dears

I am Bahaa, a Palestinian-Ghazawi photographer

My life consisted of my beautiful, wonderful work with international companies and agencies. In addition, I was working on developing myself and my photography equipment.

Suddenly it was gone and all my dreams, ambitions and equipment in the family’s 5-storey house were destroyed

I was trying to create a project of a lifetime after hard years of continuous work, but before starting it, it was destroyed as well

Now I will tell you about my brother. He is a visual artist and a calligraphy artist, and everything he owned was destroyed

Now I will talk about my mother, the beautiful, generous woman. We owned a kindergarten and she ran it despite her illnesses with diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis. They also burned and destroyed the kindergarten to the point that they did not leave us anything to earn a living from, and now, after the difficulty of the road out of Gaza, we do not know how to travel to treat my mother.

I am asking you to please save the life of an entire family and I hope that you will help me so that we can all travel 🙏🏽

I don't want anything else but to survive the war, death and annihilation that haunt us every second

[teacherstudiies]

April 5th, 2025

[discoholicmusic]

🧑‍🎓 Alumni I taught at Ballhead Music Institute.

[animentality]