Michelle on Feb 02 2008 | Filed under: The Teaching
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!One of my students left today. I particularly hated to see her go, for very selfish reasons. She had been a very reliable person to send to do my Xeroxing for me. She always finished her work early, and […]
Michelle on Feb 02 2008 | Filed under: The Teaching
Today, Mr. Sir demanded that the students STOP SHARING. He bellowed this out to looks of incredulity and I nearly had to leave the room because I was going to go all hysterical with laughter. It was totally surreal.
Another stupid thing is that I have this brilliant kid who can teach Algebra better than […]
Michelle on Feb 01 2008 | Filed under: The Teaching
Maybe we should get rid of teacher school. Mr. Sir couldn’t teach his Algebra class today, so he came by my room, handed them all a worksheet that they didn’t know how to do, and told them to work on it at their cubicles. Nobody knew how to do it, so I let my 18 […]
Michelle on Feb 01 2008 | Filed under: The Teaching
My principal keeps dropping by my room on some pretense or another. I suppose she is verifying for herself that my class is not the den of iniquity that it is portrayed to be. Each time she has stopped by, the kids have been extraordinarily engaged in their work or something that we were talking […]
Michelle on Jan 30 2008 | Filed under: The Teaching
So I have this kid in class who, when talking about ethnic strife over religious differences, announces that he is going to hell. When I asked why he believed that, he told me that he thought the Pope was just some dude, and not really given power by God. I suppose this is heresy in […]
Michelle on Jan 30 2008 | Filed under: The Teaching
I finally made some. I signed a six-month lease rather than a year-long one, after agonizing over it for more than a month. Having options is good.
I left for work today, and I wanted to cry walking out the door. I thought about how many times I’ve been miserable with our public education system, […]
Michelle on Jan 30 2008 | Filed under: The Teaching
Things are not going well at work. Here’s a few things I’ve been told lately by my principal, who for some reason, listens to Mr. Sir. Weird.
“The kids have to go back to a regular classroom at the school with teachers who may not want them there. If there is too big of a […]
Michelle on Jan 28 2008 | Filed under: The Teaching
I just found the book, Blue Rage, Black Redemption at my local library. I am bringing it to school. It’s the story of Tookie Williams, the guy who founded the Crips. He was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize before being put to death. I’m not sure about the whole thing. The guy unleashed some […]
Michelle on Jan 28 2008 | Filed under: The Teaching
Things are jacked up at work right now. The Nazi-teachers want everything to be very controlled and punishing and my principal finally listened to them and told me to “tighten things up” because “the kids don’t like the other teachers” due to us “not being on the same page”. I told her that I didn’t […]
Michelle on Jan 26 2008 | Filed under: The Personal, The Teaching
If anyone else out there also teaches geography, I’ve just found a great site! It’s My Wonderful World, and it has scads of information and links, including a very interesting blogroll. I found it over at Planet Nomad, whose author has actually been to Mauritania, which strangely enough, is something that G. and I disagreed […]
