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Comment on The Classroom = Germatropolis by well informed gentleman

well informed gentleman — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:32:31 +0000

I just came from the Lakers locker room and it’s definite: Sasha Vujacic has herpes. The bad kind. On the naughty parts. Apparently Kobe also has it through what the Lakers are calling “a shower time incident.” No word on exactly what that means.

-W.I.G.

Comment on I Hope to Teach More than Math by Jacklyn

Jacklyn — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:33:06 +0000

I happened to be observing several middle school classrooms in Oakland the day after the riots and was very excited to see that the teachers turned the riots into a whole period-long lesson. The kids were extremely engaged and asked if they could discuss current events more often. Beautiful, I thought.

Comment on My Little Champions by Jacklyn

Jacklyn — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:25:25 +0000

Very interesting and insightful post. Thanks for this.

Comment on And the winner is… by Denise

Denise — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:51:23 +0000

I felt EXACTLY the same way with my Schooling in the U.S class. No one listened to each other, it was all opinion and students who, as sophomores or juniors, were already stuck in their ways and ideas about how they were going to teach. It’s frustrating. Hope you get through. But I feel where you are coming from

Comment on I Hope to Teach More than Math by la

la — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:40:18 +0000

wow! this post reminds me that you are definitely becoming one of THOSE teachers.

you know, the ones students talk about years later, fondly, realizing the impact they had on their life. top 5 teacher. or don’t even know it but they changed you in ways you can’t even conceive of teacher.

keep up the good work, I!

Comment on Guest Blogger: Mr. M by My Little Champions | Sup Teach?

My Little Champions | Sup Teach? — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:41:16 +0000

[...] M, who’s appeared on supteach? in the past has agreed to share another one of his posts! He teaches 4th grade at Watts and [...]

Comment on I Hope to Teach More than Math by Mr. D

Mr. D — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:20:02 +0000

Your “random breaks” might be the most important thing you do. You can’t teach in a vacuum–schools should adjust and react to the things happening in their students lives, just as they do in the real world. It helps build your classroom culture just as you alluded to.

In addition, who knows what kind of connections your students may make with the material. Maybe *they* see how it connects to your content. Maybe they decide they need to graduate and go to college so they can do something they thought about because you showed it for 20 seconds in class. Really, isn’t that just as important as the content?

Good job and keep it up!

Comment on Blindly Moving Forward by Mr. D

Mr. D — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:12:53 +0000

The day before school started back in August, my principal emailed me to say that instead of teaching all Algebra I classes, I would have to also teach Algebra II. I didn’t think this would be such a big deal, but even with years of experience under my belt, there was still a learning curve. There always will be when you start a new subject or grade level. There are lots of great ideas and supporters out there though, just keep looking!

Comment on I Hope to Teach More than Math by camille

camille — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:36:57 +0000

that is awesome you did that.

this reminds about being a junior in high school on 9/11 and the time after. a few of my teachers taught normally without any mention of the happenings of that day. then there were a couple others who put on the news coverage in class and encouraged discussion. it was nothing as structured as what you did though.

props mr. g!

Comment on Merry Christmas from SupTeach! by MrTeach

MrTeach — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:40:51 +0000

Hey Now! No links embedded, I guess you’ll have to keep your posts to one sentence.

Christmas is past, mine was definitely merry. Happy New Year!