I am always mentioning how my mom taught in a one room school at the beginning of her teaching career and of course, went to a one room school until high school herself. I think of her time in teaching which went up to the time I began teaching as being antique and quaint and out of touch and yet timeless in some ways.
Then Mr. F, a math teacher at my school, said as I was walking through the office--Let's ask Ms H, maybe she remembers what ditto machines looked like. Yes, yes I do, I used them....let's see, well, 20 years ago when I started in this school district, elementary schools still used them. But, longer ago when I began teaching, ditto machines were the norm. Junior highs and high schools probably used mimeographs more because they made more copies. And what is more, when I first started teaching there was a photocopy machine at my school. It was kept in a locked closet and you had to get the key from the secretary to use it because copies cost $.50 each and that was a lot of money in those days when my yearly salary was $9000. But, yes, I remember and used ditto machines.
I thought about the things no longer used in schools that I was so familiar with back in the day--filmstrip projectors, movie projectors, Borg Warner Machines, card catalogs, red pens, workbooks, Dick, Jane and Sally, New math and long division, globes and world maps that pulled down like window shades, a slide rule, grammar books, spelling books, and probably many more things.
All those memories make me an antique school teacher (or librarian). Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days!
Then Mr. F, a math teacher at my school, said as I was walking through the office--Let's ask Ms H, maybe she remembers what ditto machines looked like. Yes, yes I do, I used them....let's see, well, 20 years ago when I started in this school district, elementary schools still used them. But, longer ago when I began teaching, ditto machines were the norm. Junior highs and high schools probably used mimeographs more because they made more copies. And what is more, when I first started teaching there was a photocopy machine at my school. It was kept in a locked closet and you had to get the key from the secretary to use it because copies cost $.50 each and that was a lot of money in those days when my yearly salary was $9000. But, yes, I remember and used ditto machines.
I thought about the things no longer used in schools that I was so familiar with back in the day--filmstrip projectors, movie projectors, Borg Warner Machines, card catalogs, red pens, workbooks, Dick, Jane and Sally, New math and long division, globes and world maps that pulled down like window shades, a slide rule, grammar books, spelling books, and probably many more things.
All those memories make me an antique school teacher (or librarian). Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days!