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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Responses to student surveys: potential teaching tool?
In the math 3 classes, the students completed online surveys awhile back, and I compiled the responses for the benefit of my coteachers. It occurred to me while I was reading the responses that although most were predictable or entertaining, … Continue reading
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Added value in a teacher?
Read the blog below for a very interesting idea about information and what value a teacher adds to the process of acquiring it. I think some of the implications of the post are somewhat naive. But although I have some … Continue reading
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Monday humor
Just because…. Here are some reportedly actual maintenance complaints submitted by some UPS pilots (marked with a P) and the solutions (marked with an S) by the maintenance engineers. P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement. S: Almost replaced … Continue reading
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The Library of Babel
I gave my English students a choice of questions (some of which, ones that they generated yesterday) on which to write after their discussion of Borges’s The Library of Babel yesterday and a preliminary discussion last week. As is sometimes … Continue reading
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GAG
There’s obviously a fine line between bravery (or as Seth calls it “guts”) and stupidity, and your options are more limited when you’re not in charge, but nonetheless, his blog today has a useful point. Years ago, I received the … Continue reading
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Open to learning…
Here’s why you should be. I’ve taught existentialism in the context of literature for a number of years. I’ve looked for its “roots” in places as different (and old) as Dostoevsky and Ortega y Gasset. And in the course of … Continue reading
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The end game
I was visiting with a colleague today, and he and I got to talking about my perspective on the school and on my students as well as the effects I’ve had on my students over the years (perhaps simply by … Continue reading
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Grade what you value…
I am having three colleagues come in this week to lecture on “truth” in their disciplines. The original idea was that they would be covering my English class while I was away at a math meeting. Happily, as it turns … Continue reading
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