I’m going to pop in to the composition staff meeting at Local U. after a lunch date with my husband this afternoon, and I’m very much looking forward to it.
I left Local U. last semester when my boss told me that there weren’t enough classes to keep any of the adjuncts, but that I shouldn’t [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 31, 2009
Back at It
March 26, 2009
Closure
I have it.
(From the Chalkboard Manifesto. It’s not exactly my sentiments, but it made me chuckle nonetheless.)
I submitted the grades for my final course at TCC yesterday.
This class was unique to my experience at TCC in a number of ways:
• For starters, there were 17 students in the class, but they were literally never in [...]
March 25, 2009
Grammar Wednesday
Again, I’ve been offered Grammar Wednesday GOLD. California Teacher Guy (thank you, Honey! Keep ‘em coming!) emailed me this photo, suggesting that it might be appropriate for a post.
Really? It’s all I can do to restrain myself from commenting about not only the intelligence of the people who produced this decal, but more [...]
March 19, 2009
Holding Teachers Accountable
Before I get going on the rant I have planned for today, I’d like to share this little tidbit, cut-and-pasted verbatim (with the exception of my name) from a student’s evaluation of our course:
Mrs. Chili outline and exprees good needs to lrean the best ways in communicated expectations for building speechs and dlivering speechs.
Sigh. [...]
March 18, 2009
Grammar Wednesday
This week’s offering was submitted by California Teacher Guy a few weeks ago. I’m sorry I’m just getting to it now; I’ve been a little out of sorts lately and not really doing such a great job of staying on top of things. I’m getting better now that our portion of the globe is tipping [...]
March 16, 2009
Yes, They Have No Shame
As I was whinging to O’ Mama this afternoon over lunch about the abysmal performance of some (okay, most) of my students this afternoon, she suggested a blog post title of “Have They No Shame?” I decided, though, that I wasn’t up for the sarcasm and figured I go with the bald truth. They have [...]
March 11, 2009
Grammar Wednesday
Don’t you just LOVE these emails? I seem to be getting more than usual lately; perhaps the scammers are feeling the pinch of the contracting economy?
BMW® HQ Germany Plant:Heidemannstr. 164 DE-80939 MUNCHEN Germany.
From:THE BMW® (UK) Ltd Registered Office:
Ellesfield Avenue, Bracknell,
Berkshire, RG12 8TA.
United Kingdom.
Congratulations,
The Board of Directors,Members of staff and the International Awareness Promotion Department of [...]
March 10, 2009
If At First You Don’t Succeed, Sue
Seriously.
Okay, here’s the story; TCC’s parent company decided, a little over a year ago, to close the school. I don’t understand all the machinations that brought them to that decision and, frankly, it doesn’t matter to me, but it’s an essential piece to this story, so there you go.
When the decision to close was made, [...]
March 9, 2009
T-Minus Two Weeks…
The semester at TCC is almost over. Class is meeting today (despite the snow – see below for a bit of funny about that); after today, we’ve got Wednesday, then next Monday and Wednesday, and we’re done.
Today’s class will be spent talking about what makes good persuasion and about how to write a decent persuasive [...]
March 5, 2009
Because, Of Course, “You’re a Racist” Was the First Thing I Thought…
Ugh.
Remember the kid who decided to do a different exercise than the one I assigned? I turned his ungraded paper back to him yesterday with the note on it explaining why he got no credit (he only got it yesterday because that was the first time I’ve seen him since the assignment was due). He [...]
