invisible students cameras clicked off and microphones muted can't even mark them truant because i'm teaching invisible students invisible students masks hiding their faces making them feel stupid and like mutants because i'm teaching invisible students who don't want to talk because nothing is normal the People in Charge have stopped offering improvements because we're teaching invisible students living in the paranormal ghosted translucent the People in Charge are being imprudent because They don't care that we're teaching invisible students
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Tag: poetry about teaching
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A Teacher Poem: Invisible Students
Posted at 8:17 am , on August 22, 2020
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Poetry: Conciseness is a Lost Art Form
Posted at 11:25 pm , on October 27, 2017
Another poem for a post.
Conciseness is a lost art form.
Are we just asking them to perform?
Whether it’s spoken or transcribed,
ranting and rambling in a diatribe.Gone are the days of the one sentence answer.
Causing that answer to spread like a cancer:
prove it,
support it with evidence,
cite it,
with no checklist for guidance.
Do not forget your transitions
and standard English conventions.
Meanwhile analyze with commentary;
try to spell without a dictionary.
End with a conclusion.They and we are left in a malignant delusion.
A meandering, misdirected ruse
that teachers fisticuff their way on through.I know it’s part of the territory,
but how did this become mandatory?But then again,
conciseness is a lost art form
when we ask them to perform,
overshadowed by fancier tricks on the writing food chain.
This poem touches on a topic discussed in a prior blog post, Questions, Prompts, Responses, and Answers.
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