just found out i'm teaching mostly geometry, but one period of alg 2.
― for those about to s1ock, we slutsk you (m bison), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs216.snc4/39154_685807015335_25406876_38972997_4079718_n.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs116.ash2/39154_685807025315_25406876_38972998_699063_n.jpg
this is what my classroom looks like rite now, have very few ideas of how to pretty it up. thinking of doing a section called IMPORTANT MATH PPL and highlight contemporary ppl doin tite math 4 a living (nate silver, that lady who got on the futurama dvd, jaime escalante even tho he is rip'ing it up now ;_;). that should maybe get 10% of the walls.
― for those about to s1ock, we slutsk you (m bison), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
do you have to leave the desks where they are?
― Eggs, Peaches, Hot Dogs, Lamb (remy bean), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
some of these are a little silly, but:
http://www.mathteacherstore.com/middle/midlpost/5-8/mathpostA.htm
http://www.mathsoul.com/
have shown up in my room
― Eggs, Peaches, Hot Dogs, Lamb (remy bean), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
FRACTALS
― the soul of the avocado escapes as soon as you open it (Laurel), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
And pictures of that pointy green cauliflower that grows in spirals. Or maybe just a fresh head of it on your desk every week. I could look at that freak of nature all day.
remy - i can do whatever with the desks, i scattered them just to see how much spread i could get in terms of width b/c they were shoved on one side when i got in yesterday morning
laurel - i will so post pictures of geometrically interesting foods, 4 real
― for those about to s1ock, we slutsk you (m bison), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Also: Square watermelons.
― the soul of the avocado escapes as soon as you open it (Laurel), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
okay, these are really cool. i wonder if you could print/enlarge them?
http://www.geekosystem.com/fruit-mri-pineapple-orange-banana/
― Eggs, Peaches, Hot Dogs, Lamb (remy bean), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
a rolling thread where we are exhausted
― jerk of all trades (m bison), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
a rolling thread were we are still on holiday
how is this going for you?
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
just started orientation yesterday. already tired.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 10:28 (thirteen years ago) link
(lol. it'll be better tmmrw when i can start carpooling half hour to work and not hour + half by public transportation)
Bison do Ken Keeler in yr maths dudes talk too!
― I used to lurk on some turtle forums (Trayce), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 10:49 (thirteen years ago) link
starting next monday. hopefully I can get moved into my new flat before then.
― dyao, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 12:12 (thirteen years ago) link
first class this morning. think of me!
― The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 12:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Good luck, LL!
I teach rotating terms of legal writing, business law, and contracts to paralegal students at a community college. I'm a lawyer by day, but love teaching so much more than I love lawyering, so once I get a little more experience under my belt, I'm going to see how I can maybe teach full time. First bizlaw class of the term is this Saturday. I'm pretty excited, but I had foot surgery so I have one foot in a big boot thing which is going to cramp my very mobile, pacing, animated teaching style.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 13:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i lived! i think it was among my best first-classes ever. i gave good examples and tied everything together by the end of class and led right up to their homework. i love teaching.
― The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
now i am eating a salad that smells a little old/off but i am eating it anyway because the only other food i have here is a package of ry-crisps and some stale graham crackers. (file under: sad contents of teacher's desk)
― The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Awesome! High five!!!
er about the class, not about your sad lunch.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
xposts to trayce
i'm doing spec ed math, so ken keeler will be a bit inappropriate for their current level understanding, but i am going to find a way to throw futurama in there (thinkin the wall street episode, the montage where they go down different streets, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, πth street...where does pi go on the number line, BOOYAAAAA)
― jerk of all trades (m bison), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Yess :D
― I used to lurk on some turtle forums (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 11:26 (thirteen years ago) link
dyao – sucks. i'm not able to move into my new place until (9/1), and i'm teaching full time beginning next week (8/30) and the movers are charging me nearly $800 to move 3 miles.
― SYNTAX ERROR (remy bean), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 12:10 (thirteen years ago) link
that sucks remy. I schlepped my fridge (not a big one but still reasonably large) across town yesterday, was not fun. I'm moving my flat piece by piece, lucky in that I have an office to serve as a intermediary stop. hopefully will get done by the weekend. your movers sound like highway robbers!
got teaching materials yesterday for a class that starts monday. still no word on teaching materials for my other class which starts wednesday. found out for that class, it's only going to be and this other guy who's the course coordinator. he's the dude who basically plagiarized teaching materials from the web for this same course last year without giving credit, who was always late in distributing course materials, completely changed the nature of the final exam and basically screwed over the students. looking forward to a fun semester working with this dude.
― dayo, Thursday, 26 August 2010 02:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Just found out today that I'm teaching an 8th grade class of boys a lit semester themed around Survival that is including at the very least "Alive" and "Into Thin Air."
― Mordy, Thursday, 26 August 2010 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link
a nickel will get you a dime that lord of the flies is on the syllabus. yeah?
― dayo, Thursday, 26 August 2010 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
oh yes, most definitely
― Mordy, Thursday, 26 August 2010 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Good job LL! I'm always so nervous about first class back - it seems such a leap to go from 'not having taught for 2 months' to "I expect your unconditional loyalty and devotion starting RIGHT NOW - ps we are studyin' numbers" - like, I know I can do it, but it seems like a kind of magic that I always expect to be exposed in!
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Thursday, 26 August 2010 02:58 (thirteen years ago) link
oh myGOD
i just tripped over some cords and fell flat on my belly in front of my speech class -- it was like slow-moas i did this, i squealed WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOdid not get injured, unless you consider loss of cred an injury
sweet jesus
― The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Friday, 27 August 2010 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link
once I taught for a full hour without realizing my fly was open. :o
― dayo, Friday, 27 August 2010 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link
hole in the back of my pants on the day i wore my lucky elephant boxer shorts (in fifth grade class)
― SYNTAX ERROR (remy bean), Friday, 27 August 2010 01:52 (thirteen years ago) link
First assignments distributed this week.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 August 2010 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh -- I'm an adjunct professor of English.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 August 2010 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Ok so I'm finally home now. In my final piece of inspiration to my speech class, did I implore my (adult) students to pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and continue if they fall down during their speeches?
You know I did. It's a corny teacher moment, but they seemed to like it. I don't have any native speakers in this class, so that makes it a little more fun. Ah well.
― The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Friday, 27 August 2010 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
aw, I bet your students aren't even going to remember this accident a month from now.
from the advice of a colleague, created a separate facebook account for interacting w/ students with. think it might be a useful way to convey information about due dates, requirements, etc. & maybe an interesting alternative to e-mail.
― dayo, Friday, 27 August 2010 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, i meant to tell you -- the merriam webster's learner's dictionary website is fantastic. they have a blog with posts that should be interesting to students of your level, word of the day, pronunciation exercises, a place to create your own dictionary, all kinds of neat stuff. i think they recently made it a lot different/better. also recommended: visual thesaurus (dot com). great for vocabulary, words with two different definitions that are 2+ parts of speech, demonstrating language shit in an interesting way, etc.
― The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Friday, 27 August 2010 04:35 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, thanks for the tip! going to check it out right now
― dayo, Friday, 27 August 2010 04:37 (thirteen years ago) link
:) my pleasure
― The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Friday, 27 August 2010 04:39 (thirteen years ago) link
my coordinator just came by and dropped off the materials, still crappy, still plagiarized. \(O_o)/
― dayo, Friday, 27 August 2010 06:05 (thirteen years ago) link
oh yeah while I was showing him my iPad he made a joke about "don't show me all the porn I know you've got on there!"
...
― dayo, Friday, 27 August 2010 12:07 (thirteen years ago) link
way to project, loser
― The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Friday, 27 August 2010 12:09 (thirteen years ago) link
(him, not you)
― The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Friday, 27 August 2010 12:11 (thirteen years ago) link
hah - also word on the street is he's dating a 25 year old who used to be a student (not sure if she was his student specifically or not) at his last university. on facebook they are 'engaged.' he is 45.
― dayo, Friday, 27 August 2010 12:11 (thirteen years ago) link
he is giving all of us a bad name
― The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Friday, 27 August 2010 12:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm taking tesol classes at the moment. teaching english has always appealed to me so i decided to give it a try. i like reading you people's posts about it.
― estela, Friday, 27 August 2010 12:21 (thirteen years ago) link
oh! wonderful -- you will salvage our collective reputation if anyone can. if you have any questions, i'd be glad to answer them :)
― The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Friday, 27 August 2010 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
LL, that was a Good Save! I think the only way to recover from those kinds of events is to be self-deprecating and corny.
― Jenny, Friday, 27 August 2010 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link
amanda is the bestest tesol teacher btw
― dayo, Friday, 27 August 2010 13:32 (thirteen years ago) link
awww <3 certainly the clumsiest
i'm feeling really unusually motivated this semester. it feels good!
― The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Friday, 27 August 2010 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
aw thanks, ll, i'm sure i will have questions as i go along.
― estela, Friday, 27 August 2010 14:15 (thirteen years ago) link