Poetry About Teaching Online

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Not Your Typical Teacher

I am not your typical teacher

I have a different feature

That thing of mine

Is I teach online.

I don't go out the door,

What for?

My students, don't forget,

Are on the Internet.

Teaching Students I Don't See

My students I never see

And they never see me

They live all over the place

And we never meet face-to-face.

I will teach you

And try to reach you

Though you are far,

I will grab that star

And help you to see

Geometry

And say ah ha

At algebra

Or get an edge

With language

And then proceeding

Understand reading

And there's no telling

What you can do with spelling

The Online Teacher

The online teacher

Doesn't leave the house,

Uses a mouse

Has no gas to afford,

Uses a keyboard,

Doesn't have to walk

To the board to get chalk...

On the Web

Started teaching on the web

In Feb.

And did that every day,

Until May.

And I don't know why,

We didn't have many students in July.

But my computer started to congest

In August.

And I remember

In September. November and December,

We were really busy

And was I dizzy!

There once was a teacher online,

Who typed to her students all the time,

Her students could not read

As fast as her words would proceed,

But in the end they were all fine.