my students call me miss. and it’s not just me. they call other teachers miss or mister (for female and male teachers, respectively). [side note: this never happened when i went to school. we called teachers by mrs. so-and-so, or by just their last name, or some abbreviation thereof, if they were a cool teacher [...]
Posts Tagged ‘school’
hey miss.
Posted in 2010, tagged school on 3 April 2010 | 1 Comment »
how i feel about it sometimes: letting students own their poor choices edition.
Posted in 2010, tagged how i feel about it sometimes, school on 30 March 2010 | Leave a Comment »
even i’m shaking my head at this one.
Posted in 2010, tagged nerdy, school on 11 February 2010 | 2 Comments »
and yet, i still want to hang this up in my class.
conan o’brien, with my classroom rules.
Posted in 2010, tagged pop goes the culture, school on 28 January 2010 | Leave a Comment »
oh, my, really?
Posted in 2010, tagged school, things i learned on 22 January 2010 | 3 Comments »
ahem. sigh. ahem. well, it’s been a daunting january around the smorgasbundle abode. upon hearing the news (2 days before the first day at school) that i would be taking a block class of juniors for the entire semester, i promptly did what any other student-teacher-jumping-at-the-chance would do. panic. now, i’ve become a slightly more [...]
everything is possible again.
Posted in 2009, tagged school, the deep end, things i learned on 16 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
one of my favorite fiction writers, jonathan safran foer, is coming out with a new book called “eating animals”, which is about exactly what you would expect it to be about. but that’s another story. or, as he would say, a different story about a different story. however, in a new york times article he [...]
and chipotle is chip-oat-lay, for the record.
Posted in 2009, tagged cringeworthy, school on 3 October 2009 | 2 Comments »
our Unnamed High School has announcements every morning, broadcast over the ancient (and very loud, i might add) PA system. so, after some music and the obligatory pledging allegiance to the flag. (side note: we NEVER did this in high school. did this start after 9/11?) then, a senior student and sometimes another student reads [...]
want to know what being a student teacher is like?
Posted in 2009, tagged how i feel about it sometimes, school on 20 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
yeah. like that.
regarding the writing of two research papers by monday.
Posted in 2009, tagged lexican!, school on 14 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
i have a paper due tomorrow, and one due monday. then my semester is over. however, i’ve managed to write only one word in the past few hours: torpor 1 a: a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility. * * * * how apt. i see that these next few [...]
my offering.
Posted in 2009, tagged daily, overheard, school on 7 May 2009 | 1 Comment »
it’s finals week, people. i am working morning, noon, and night, just to get these papers written, finals passed, books read, and kicking myself repeatedly for saying yes to doing anything non-school-related this week inadvertently. apologies. i offer you, instead of any details from my life this week i could remotely bore you with (and [...]
