Schooled: As I’Ve Been Teaching Lessons, I’Ve Learned a Few

By Tiandra Moore

Being an effective public-school teacher in the twenty-first century requires more than a mastery of subject matter, a welcoming smile, or a pretty classroom. Teachers today are held to unique criteria to which no other career can compare. In Schooled, author Tiandra Moore shares the story of her journey into the education field, a journey that exemplifies the balance of emotional, political, and personal agendas within the academic profession.
Through a realistic upbringing and an even truer college experience and perspective, Schooled provides a teachers fortunate, and sometimes unfortunate, journey to the classroom. In this memoir, Moore tells how site politics can cripple the most motivated, the most compassionate, and the most eager to educate students today.Through determination to herself and keeping promises with family members, Moore delivers an honest response to the process of becoming and sustaining a career in education.
In Schooled, Moore tells how she loved the philosophy, the methodology, and the practice of teaching, but learned lessons the hard way. She shares how her faith helped her keep focus during a challenging time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Sep 14, 2018
• ISBN: 9781532056482

Tiandra Moore

Tiandra Moore is a poetess at heart but found another voice through teaching. Throughout her short career, she has taught while learning more lessons about who she is as a writer, an educator, and an individual within this profession of education. Moore lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with her husband, Jemarius, and her baby girl, Kamya.

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iUniverse rev. date: 09/06/2018

CONTENTS

Dedication

Foreword

Introduction

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Lesson Given

First Year Teacher

Lesson Plan

Pedagogy

Autodidacticism

Constructivism

Bloom’s Taxonomy: The 6-year journey to nowhere

Bloom’s Taxonomy: Domain #1 Cognitive – Knowledge Based

Bloom’s Taxonomy: Domain #2 Affective – Emotion Based

Bloom’s Taxonomy: Domain #3 Psychomotor – Action Based

DEDICATION

To my husband, my daughter, my family, my friends, my students, myself

Also, to all the teachers that have to deal with more than they ever imagined

FOREWORD

To be an effective public-school teacher in the 21st century requires more than a mastery of subject matter, a welcoming smile, or a pretty classroom. Teachers today are held to unique criteria which no other career can compare. Tiandra Moore’s journey exemplifies the balance of emotional, political, and personal agendas within the academic profession.

Through a realistic upbringing and an even truer college experience and perspective, Schooled provides a teacher’s fortunate, and sometimes unfortunate, journey to the classroom. Many will learn of how site politics can cripple the most motivated, the most compassionate, and the most eager to educate students today. Through determination to herself and keeping promises with family members, Mrs. Moore delivers an honest response to the process of becoming and sustaining a career in education. Her unfortunate experiences bleed truth and inspire any who are fortunate to hear it. Her Faith keeps focus and motivates strength and change. It is with remarkable confidence and honor that I recommend Schooled.

Jacob Schilleci

Former Mentor

Mr. Schilleci has a Masters in Education and Administrative Management. He has been teaching for sixteen years and is a part of the Education Foundation Fellowship as well as the Teach Plus Foundation. He has authored Reaching for Reality and The Egoless Teacher and administered the Southern Nevada Writing Project. He has been a mentor, professional confidante, and friend to Mrs. Moore and has helped her to reach her potential as a writer and educator.

INTRODUCTION

This book is very personal.

When I learned how to be a teacher, something stirred inside of me. Not only was I beginning a career, I was able to tap into other aspects about my personality that I didn’t realize were strong, like public speaking, acting, giving advice, and creating tough skin. Many of those aspects are traits that teachers develop as the school year progresses. As my career progressed, I learned other, not-so-positive aspects of teaching that have diminished that stir I had when I began. This book is a chronological catalogue of my experiences. Not all of my teaching career has been awful, but the negative has been so significant that it has lead to the writing of this book.

I love teaching. I truly do. The philosophy, the methodology, and the practice of it is truly awesome. I learned terminology that seems so foreign even to the profession of which I belong. UrbanDictionary.com defines the word schooled as when an individual gets taught a lesson in a harsh, demeaning manner. Due to the fact that this book is about me being schooled as a teacher, this book uses those terms to demonstrate the experiences I endured.

Please have an open mind when reading this book. I realize all of the words may be long or difficult, and even pretentious. I promise these terms are relevant to my points. Teaching can be a fantastic career to have until retirement, for some. For others, teaching can be very frustrating when one expects a different outcome of good works. I want that feeling back of amazement, of excitement, that stirring that I had when I first started out as an educator. Hopefully and prayerfully, this time I am taking off to pursue my writing will allow me the time I need for this wonderful profession to miss me and want my return to it.

I am damn good at what I do, and what I do is educate in whatever capacity I can.

LESSON GIVEN

lesson (definition): an amount of teaching given at one time; a period of learning or teaching

given (definition): specified or stated; inclined or disposed to; taking into account; a known or established