Monthly Archives: November 2010
Boiling Frogs
Carson came to my class today. Via the wonders of Skype, I was able to bring my dear friend and esteemed colleague over 1,600 hundred miles and across a time zone to come and talk to my kids about the … Continue reading
Mission Accomplished!
Alternately titled, “I Told You So!” One of the rare treasures of my job is the kid who comes back to tell me that they finally understand why I was so hard on them / I was so demanding / … Continue reading
Filed under I love my job, I've got this kid...., Learning, success!, Teaching
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Filed under compassion and cooperation, concerns, ethics, failure, I can't make this shit up..., I love my boss, I've got this kid...., out in the real world, parental units, self-analysis, Yikes!
Love Him…
I’ve got this kid. I love this kid. This kid has been, since our first class together, one of my favorites. Last year, this kid did a poetry analysis on Gordon Lightfoot’s Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. He loved boats, … Continue reading
Filed under fun, I love my job, I've got this kid...., success!, the good ones
Get Out of My Office..
…before I pop a freaking vein. Oh dear GODDESS! After the weekend spent listening to students’ excuses about why they couldn’t finish all their work (and grading the work they DID do), this was EXACTLY what I needed to see.
Do NOT…!
…let me repeat that; Do NOT go there. So, it’s ‘progress’ report time, and I put progress in quotation marks because only one or two made any actual progress; the rest either held steady or lost (sometimes significant) ground. The … Continue reading
Hellooooo?
You get that it’s HOT, right? Seriously, people, I am stressed out! Grades close for the quarter on Friday. I decided to go against my own “no late work” policy to allow the students to hand in incomplete or missing … Continue reading
