In July I thought about The honesty of cheating
I remembered a tweet by Neil deGrasse Tyson:
Anyway, I figured I'd post that now before I forget it.
Yesterday morning was the first Saturday in a minute I had a long slow early morning. I woke up made one of my water lattes and began to read some of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield. Afterwards I had some time to myself to sit down and express myself through writing. This is the aforementioned writings:
I have just finished my third week of my second year of teaching. This year has been going much much smoother and I think there may be many factors that play a part.
1. this isn't my first year so I understand how many parts of the machine work and I have last year's papers and homework packets
2. the middle school students are now on the high school schedule which means 6,7,and 8th grade aren't in the cafeteria and bus dismissal.
3. Pollard is our principal this year
4. These students had preK across the pod last year
This week we will be administering the beginning of the year test and I'm very interested to see my students' scores.
At home I am absolutely loving getting to live with Tem. Cuddling at night and seeing her every day after work is amazing. I'm currently trying to recharge my bank account after the June West trip and the July Iceland trip. Last week I had to put $430 into my car but other than that the recharge has been a slow but sure process. Tem travels it seems at least once a week. It makes it challenging for us to do a date night. And I know I shouldn't but I still feel some kind of way having her pay for stuff if I don't have the money. I want to plan a date and pay for it. Something feels wrong about planning a date and then standing back as she pays for it...
Friday night there was the CEA party at the Hilton at Easton. There I was able to catch up with Giffin the old preK teacher and I learned about our new PreK teacher Lemasters. Giffin went on about her house she owns in Olde Towne East and Lemasters talked about her life aswell... I asked Giffin since she owns a house there must be hope for teachers to afford things...she scoffed and explained how her husband makes all the money. Lemasters nodded talking about her engineer husband as well.
Time Magazine just published an article about teacher in America.
Not exactly the most encouraging article to a male teacher complaining about not being able to pay for dates with his girlfriend. I do still hold out hope that once these loans are paid off I will have more to offer.
I've started playing chess, and when I say that I really mean I've started to lose to the computer. Currently I can sometimes beat a level 2 computer.
Childish Gambino - Feels Like Summer
I remembered a tweet by Neil deGrasse Tyson:
When Students cheat on exams it's because our School System values grades more than Students value learning.— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) April 14, 2013
Anyway, I figured I'd post that now before I forget it.
Yesterday morning was the first Saturday in a minute I had a long slow early morning. I woke up made one of my water lattes and began to read some of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield. Afterwards I had some time to myself to sit down and express myself through writing. This is the aforementioned writings:
I have just finished my third week of my second year of teaching. This year has been going much much smoother and I think there may be many factors that play a part.
1. this isn't my first year so I understand how many parts of the machine work and I have last year's papers and homework packets
2. the middle school students are now on the high school schedule which means 6,7,and 8th grade aren't in the cafeteria and bus dismissal.
3. Pollard is our principal this year
4. These students had preK across the pod last year
This week we will be administering the beginning of the year test and I'm very interested to see my students' scores.
At home I am absolutely loving getting to live with Tem. Cuddling at night and seeing her every day after work is amazing. I'm currently trying to recharge my bank account after the June West trip and the July Iceland trip. Last week I had to put $430 into my car but other than that the recharge has been a slow but sure process. Tem travels it seems at least once a week. It makes it challenging for us to do a date night. And I know I shouldn't but I still feel some kind of way having her pay for stuff if I don't have the money. I want to plan a date and pay for it. Something feels wrong about planning a date and then standing back as she pays for it...
Friday night there was the CEA party at the Hilton at Easton. There I was able to catch up with Giffin the old preK teacher and I learned about our new PreK teacher Lemasters. Giffin went on about her house she owns in Olde Towne East and Lemasters talked about her life aswell... I asked Giffin since she owns a house there must be hope for teachers to afford things...she scoffed and explained how her husband makes all the money. Lemasters nodded talking about her engineer husband as well.
Time Magazine just published an article about teacher in America.
Not exactly the most encouraging article to a male teacher complaining about not being able to pay for dates with his girlfriend. I do still hold out hope that once these loans are paid off I will have more to offer.
I've started playing chess, and when I say that I really mean I've started to lose to the computer. Currently I can sometimes beat a level 2 computer.
Childish Gambino - Feels Like Summer