Do Now: Be a dick and give a review quiz today to the five students whose parents aren’t keeping them at home and are sitting in your class right now. It might be Halloween to some, a day of pranks to others, and gang initiation to even fewer. But to normal citizens, it’s a Friday, [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 31, 2008
Bowl Predictions…in October?
It’s time now for playoff projections. Yes, playoff projections. Before the season began, I introduced a proposal for a college football playoff. Below I will analyze and predict outcomes for my playoff system, given the BCS rankings effective today…
It’s December 10th, and a full slate of four games are set for national television. It’s time [...]
October 30, 2008
Day 39 AIM: When should I use my personal/sick days?
Do Now: Be careful as you consider your options, for these are treacherous waters you wade in. For on one hand, you have ten sick/personal days in your bank. Translation: you’re one phone call away from a day off, a respite, a breather in the marathon of the school year. But remember, school administrators frown [...]
October 30, 2008
The ULOT NBA 2008-09 Season Preview: Western Conference
If there’s one thing I know well, it is the world of professional basketball. A fan since I can remember, I’ll be here to guide you through the season and tell you what’s going to happen, or at least what I think is going to happen. Last season was one of the best [...]
October 29, 2008
Day 38 AIM: How can I make friends with the people in my department?
Do Now: Make friends. Fast. Even superficial friends—the kind you make at a workplace, for example—are still friends on the surface. But you’re the new teacher, the neophyte, the fresh meat on the table. Well, don’t fret. They’re teachers, just like you. Just think of your department as a big fraternity, and you’re the pledge. [...]
October 29, 2008
Forgetting Sarah Palin
In less than a week, this election business will be good and done (or at least it should be), and when it is, John McCain will forever be remembered as either the candidate that put Sarah Palin in the White House or the candidate who lost trying to put Sarah Palin in the White House.
I’m [...]
October 28, 2008
Day 37 AIM: Which newspaper best serves the needs of teachers?
Do Now: You know the value of current events and understand the value of using articles in the classroom. But you are frusted with those uber-academic articles from the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Now you’re faced with a dilemma, for on one hand you’ve got the best information in the nation, [...]
October 28, 2008
Taking Center Stage
As a teacher you are constantly on stage, under the strict scrutiny of your students. They may not remember that lesson the day before on Alexander the Great and his impact on cultural borrowing, but they will recognize if you are wearing jeans as opposed to your normal khakis, if you forgot to shave, or [...]
October 24, 2008
Day 35 AIM: How do I teach my kids postive life lessons?
Do Now: Step one-to bypass that nasty DOE filter, download a program that enables you to download videos off of youtube. (Type in youtube downloader into Google, directions included)
Step two-download an amazing video such as this one:
Step three-??????
Step four-Profit.
