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    • A Teacher Poem: Invisible Students

      Posted at 8:17 am by Mrs. Ram Jam, on August 22, 2020
      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
      
      
      
      
      
      Posted in education, poems, poetry | 2 Comments | Tagged poems, poems about teaching, poetry, poetry about teaching
    • Poetry: Conciseness is a Lost Art Form

      Posted at 11:25 pm by Mrs. Ram Jam, 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.

      Posted in poetry, teaching, Uncategorized, writing | 0 Comments | Tagged concise, poetry, poetry about teaching, teaching, writing
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