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  • Jerks

    I have been contemplating the jerky student for the past week. This is the student I longed to rescue as an ingenuous student teacher--the same one that seasoned mentors encouraged me to get rid of so I could do my job.…

  • It's probably a combination

    A good chunk of one of my classes seems to think they're smarter than me. They whine about assignments, talk during class activities, and act like nothing I teach makes any sense. Could this be because . . .. . . I am …

  • Sick days like a pro

    Now that I have almost no sick days to take, of course I'm getting good at taking them. Or so I thought.I snuck in at 6 AM yesterday to photocopy ye olde busy work--which is supposed to make the young ones want me never…

  • Letter responses and ensuing propositions

    Alas, there were no stunning revelations in the letters yesterday, and the ones that one might interpret as taking "my side" did nothing to balance the ones that straight-up attacked me. Well, the one. One might wonder…

  • Adopt an Ace Update

    Some 3 months ago, I put together a little strategy I called Adopt an Ace, wherein the failing half of my class adopted members of the passing half and partners worked together to pull up their collective scores. I hadn…

  • Mixture

    It occurs to me that some of these heathens may never realize the lengths I've gone to for them. There are a few, I know, who blithely overlook the mounds of unscored assignments that periodically spurt off of the growi…

  • Trials and tribulations

    TrialI have been trying to rephrase my disciplinary moves as instructed by the all-wise Robert J. Mackenzie, and I'm pleased with the results. I'm still kind of shaky with it, as I am so used to arguing and threatening.…

  • Off to a gallumphing start

    Though I shirked my grading duties over break quite spectacularly over the under-two-week-long break, I thought I had planned pretty tightly under the circumstances (read: two fewer instruction days plus one less weekend…

  • Time, well, spent

    My day broken down by how many minutes devoted to activities of varying worthiness.70 waiting around while goobers in two periods took quizzes on telling time in Spanish. I swept a little and graded a little, too, but n…

  • Two can be as bad as one

    Two AP's think I've lost my mind, including the one who came and talked to me for half an hour of my planning to be sure I wasn't stressed over his observation and the one whom I have almost never talked to, who noticed…

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