The quote “If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying” is often misused. Jim Rome uses it a lot on his radio show. According “Jungle” lore, it was most famously used by a pro baseball coach who used it to encourage his team’s base runners to lead off bases more to and consequently steal [...]
Filed under: General Observations, Teaching on December 27th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is some advice I shared with one my students who just graduated… I thought others might benefit.
Make sure, on your super duper mac book, that you have an organizer program, and USE IT. Better yet, if you can get a phone with an organizer that syncs to the computer. Put everything on [...]
Filed under: Teaching on August 20th, 2009 | Add Comment! »
I’m in a weird state of mind about the way things are going.
My conventional rose-coloured glasses wants to believe that the economic bailout will actually make a difference. I’m not basing this hope on anything rational, but there IS something to the power of positive collective thought.
All the people whose [...]
Filed under: EWAKI, Politics, Teaching on October 4th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Next year I get to teach AP United States Government and Politics. I’ve never taught the course, there’s no established curriculum other than what the college board wants me to teach, and I’ll have about 80 of my school’s best and brightest seniors who’ve signed up for the course.
So many kids are taking [...]
Filed under: Teaching on July 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I think this is the first snow day we’ve had all year.
The first thing you need to know about snow days for teachers is that most of us like them and look forward to them more than the students do. The reason is that not only do we get the day off, [...]
Filed under: General Observations, Teaching on February 11th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is the response from one of my tenth graders to a homework question
Q: When foreign suppliers cut oil sales,or choose to sell their oil to other people, how should the United States respond?
A: First we face them politically and talk about a solution and if that doesn’t work do what the US does [...]
Filed under: Politics, Teaching on February 7th, 2008 | Add Comment! »
At the beginning of most of my American History lessons I play a song to get my students thinking about the lesson. Friday I was teaching about Alexander Hamilton’s financial plan and so I wanted to use the Pink Floyd song “Money.” My kids are high school juniors, and I’ve been teaching long [...]
Filed under: Teaching on November 17th, 2007 | Add Comment! »
Two events conspired over the past couple weeks that have made me feel “pre-old.”
For the last week of my summer vacation, I had all three of my daughters. With Small and the newly 10 year old medium, it was pretty much business as usual. My 12.8 year old daughter though, is [...]
Filed under: General Observations, Teaching on September 22nd, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been back to work at school now for a week, which is why I haven’t been writing.
This year it was particularly hard to go back to work because for the first time in 15 years or so I actually had the whole summer off. People always comment that it must be [...]
Filed under: Teaching on September 11th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The following letter appeared in a small town newspaper, The Gates-Chili Post, in 1994 by Jean A. Black, CPA. Ms. Black was one of the most outspoken teacher bashers of her era, and this letter provoked a firestorm of response from local teachers.
“Teachers Wanted”
Applications now being accepted. Bachelor’s degree required and must work toward master’s [...]
Filed under: General Observations, Teaching on August 4th, 2007 | Add Comment! »
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