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Oh, snap!: October 2005
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Monday, October 31, 2005. Today I was trying to think of alternatives to drowning one's sorrows in the bottle. Nothing much came to mind. At first I came up with cigarettes and coffee, but that is less like drowning your sorrows and more like winding them up very tightly and injecting them with speed. TV and chocolate eating are other options, but I already employ those and they don't seem to be working. Posted by newoldschoolteacher @ 9:36 PM. Friday, October 28, 2005. The conversation about the ethical...
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Oh, snap!: September 2005
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Thursday, September 29, 2005. Back to the issues at hand. Something interesting happened the other day in my Educational Psychology class. This guy asked, "do they study schools in China, since they do so well? Our instructor thought he meant, 'do American researchers study schools in China? The funny part is that the guy was actually asking, "Do Chinese psychologists study Chinese schools? Today I had a seminar in which we discuss our student teaching experience. It was interesting- a LOT of the peo...
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Oh, snap!: July 2006
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006. A happy ending to a sad tale of woe. Dear readers, or, depending on the patience of readers, dear no one,. But I'm so happy and I love my little kids and I love the school because it's safe and we care about them and we have chanting and learning and fun things to do. I know this is rambling and silly, but my writing is only really sharp when I'm angry or upset and right now I'm neither of those things! Posted by newoldschoolteacher @ 6:49 PM. MATCH School, Boston.
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Oh, snap!: November 2005
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Friday, November 25, 2005. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Remember to be thankful for all the wonderful things you have, including friends, family, digital music players, and no wild animals loose in your neighborhood (Although are you sure about that last one? Think about it.). My student teaching semester ended with a whimper when I got a horrible virus. It was bad enough that I wished I was well enough to go to school (! Posted by newoldschoolteacher @ 12:00 PM. MATCH School, Boston.
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Oh, snap!: December 2006
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Sunday, December 24, 2006. A greeting from the mist! Posted by newoldschoolteacher @ 6:32 PM. We need not fear those who do evil in the name of evil, but Heaven protect us from those who do evil in the name of good." - Arthur C. Adams. MATCH School, Boston. Roxbury Preparatory Charter School, Boston. Education Weblog and Other Links. A greeting from the mist! A happy ending to a sad tale of woe. Apologies to the social justice project for misdir.
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Oh, snap!: February 2006
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006. It's amazing that one hour of teaching a day can make you feel like you've run a marathon and then had the crap beaten out of you by a passing thug. Posted by newoldschoolteacher @ 6:41 PM. Monday, February 27, 2006. Someone encouraged me to start writing again. I appreciated that, so I'm going to do my best here. And that's somehow ok? But for all my complaining, my situation is 10000 times better than last semester, and I am grateful for that. My cooperating teacher is v...
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Oh, snap!: May 2006
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Thursday, May 25, 2006. It's almost insulting. And we get a master's degree for this? I think the program knows how silly it is too, because some of the language they use to describe the project requirements just sound like fancy language trying to cover up for intellectual bankruptcy. Witness:. The portfolio should be integrative, synthetic, and evaluative. Translation: The portfolio should be big word to make me look smart, big word to confirm smartness, big word to blow their minds with the smartness.
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Oh, snap!: April 2006
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006. I am writing, as usual, so that you will share my pain with me. I have to do an assignment for my student teaching seminar which will also be included in my "portfolio" (due in a month. Have I started? Of course not. Do I care? The assignment is a Social Justice Action Project. What is that, you ask? VII Social Justice Culminating Project Due April 13, 2006. As a student teacher, you must check with your cooperating teacher and school on the viability of whatever project you de...
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Oh, snap!: March 2006
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006. My school is driving me crazy. Not the school I'm teaching in, but the school I go to. Maybe I should say "school," since is it really a school if you don't learn anything? Really it's just a building into which I am pouring tens of thousands of dollars of money that I have not yet earned. Fabulous. Something wrong there I think. Anyway, I'd better go do some work. I have to write a test on the Civil War and Reconstruction. It should be interesting. Wednesday, March 08, 2006.