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MOP's rants about everything! (1 Viewer)
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fantasycurse42
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Been working on lesson plans and bringing in other materials to support the material in the books. I do need to take a few deep breaths and realize these are 8th graders for the most part. The grades don't really have any weight towards college and it's possible I could be pushing them too hard. I do have a wonderful Geometry song set to go on Monday.
Village People-YMCA theme…also I have my arms out making the angles.
Right angle, it is 90 degrees, we say
Acute angle, less than 90 degrees, we say
Obtuse angle, it's more than 90 degrees, and a
Straight angle is one eighty...
Right angle, it is 90 degrees, we say
Acute angle, less than 90 degrees, we say
Obtuse angle, it's more than 90 degrees, and a
Straight angle is one eighty...
The name of the angles are
Right, Acute, Obtuse
The name of the angles are
Right, Acute, Obtuse
A straight angle is a hundred eighty degrees
Everybody sing it with me
Right, Acute, Obtuse,
The name of the angles are
Right, Acute, Obtuse,
A straight angle is a hundred eighty degrees
Now let's start from the be-gin-ning...
Village People-YMCA theme…also I have my arms out making the angles.
Right angle, it is 90 degrees, we say
Acute angle, less than 90 degrees, we say
Obtuse angle, it's more than 90 degrees, and a
Straight angle is one eighty...
Right angle, it is 90 degrees, we say
Acute angle, less than 90 degrees, we say
Obtuse angle, it's more than 90 degrees, and a
Straight angle is one eighty...
The name of the angles are
Right, Acute, Obtuse
The name of the angles are
Right, Acute, Obtuse
A straight angle is a hundred eighty degrees
Everybody sing it with me
Right, Acute, Obtuse,
The name of the angles are
Right, Acute, Obtuse,
A straight angle is a hundred eighty degrees
Now let's start from the be-gin-ning...
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Leeroy Jenkins
Footballguy
You're going to do this song for 7th and 8th graders?Been working on lesson plans and bringing in other materials to support the material in the books. I do need to take a few deep breaths and realize these are 8th graders for the most part. The grades don't really have any weight towards college and it's possible I could be pushing them too hard. I do have a wonderful Geometry song set to go on Monday.
Village People-YMCA themealso I have my arms out making the angles.
Right angle, it is 90 degrees, we say
Acute angle, less than 90 degrees, we say
Obtuse angle, it's more than 90 degrees, and a
Straight angle is one eighty...
Right angle, it is 90 degrees, we say
Acute angle, less than 90 degrees, we say
Obtuse angle, it's more than 90 degrees, and a
Straight angle is one eighty...
The name of the angles are
Right, Acute, Obtuse
The name of the angles are
Right, Acute, Obtuse
A straight angle is a hundred eighty degrees
Everybody sing it with me
Right, Acute, Obtuse,
The name of the angles are
Right, Acute, Obtuse,
A straight angle is a hundred eighty degrees
Now let's start from the be-gin-ning...
I hope one of those kids records that and posts it on YouTube.You're going to do this song for 7th and 8th graders?Been working on lesson plans and bringing in other materials to support the material in the books. I do need to take a few deep breaths and realize these are 8th graders for the most part. The grades don't really have any weight towards college and it's possible I could be pushing them too hard. I do have a wonderful Geometry song set to go on Monday.
Village People-YMCA themealso I have my arms out making the angles.
Right angle, it is 90 degrees, we say
Acute angle, less than 90 degrees, we say
Obtuse angle, it's more than 90 degrees, and a
Straight angle is one eighty...
Right angle, it is 90 degrees, we say
Acute angle, less than 90 degrees, we say
Obtuse angle, it's more than 90 degrees, and a
Straight angle is one eighty...
The name of the angles are
Right, Acute, Obtuse
The name of the angles are
Right, Acute, Obtuse
A straight angle is a hundred eighty degrees
Everybody sing it with me
Right, Acute, Obtuse,
The name of the angles are
Right, Acute, Obtuse,
A straight angle is a hundred eighty degrees
Now let's start from the be-gin-ning...
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
Yes…Yes I am.You're going to do this song for 7th and 8th graders?Been working on lesson plans and bringing in other materials to support the material in the books. I do need to take a few deep breaths and realize these are 8th graders for the most part. The grades don't really have any weight towards college and it's possible I could be pushing them too hard. I do have a wonderful Geometry song set to go on Monday.
Village People-YMCA themealso I have my arms out making the angles.
Right angle, it is 90 degrees, we say
Acute angle, less than 90 degrees, we say
Obtuse angle, it's more than 90 degrees, and a
Straight angle is one eighty...
Right angle, it is 90 degrees, we say
Acute angle, less than 90 degrees, we say
Obtuse angle, it's more than 90 degrees, and a
Straight angle is one eighty...
The name of the angles are
Right, Acute, Obtuse
The name of the angles are
Right, Acute, Obtuse
A straight angle is a hundred eighty degrees
Everybody sing it with me
Right, Acute, Obtuse,
The name of the angles are
Right, Acute, Obtuse,
A straight angle is a hundred eighty degrees
Now let's start from the be-gin-ning...
northern exposure
Footballguy
I think this thread just jumped the shark.Ministry of Pain said:Yes…Yes I am.Leeroy Jenkins said:You're going to do this song for 7th and 8th graders?Ministry of Pain said:Been working on lesson plans and bringing in other materials to support the material in the books. I do need to take a few deep breaths and realize these are 8th graders for the most part. The grades don't really have any weight towards college and it's possible I could be pushing them too hard. I do have a wonderful Geometry song set to go on Monday.
Village People-YMCA themealso I have my arms out making the angles.
Right angle, it is 90 degrees, we say
Acute angle, less than 90 degrees, we say
Obtuse angle, it's more than 90 degrees, and a
Straight angle is one eighty...
Right angle, it is 90 degrees, we say
Acute angle, less than 90 degrees, we say
Obtuse angle, it's more than 90 degrees, and a
Straight angle is one eighty...
The name of the angles are
Right, Acute, Obtuse
The name of the angles are
Right, Acute, Obtuse
A straight angle is a hundred eighty degrees
Everybody sing it with me
Right, Acute, Obtuse,
The name of the angles are
Right, Acute, Obtuse,
A straight angle is a hundred eighty degrees
Now let's start from the be-gin-ning...
No update yet....I think this did not play well.I think this thread just jumped the shark.Ministry of Pain said:Yes…Yes I am.You're going to do this song for 7th and 8th graders?Been working on lesson plans and bringing in other materials to support the material in the books. I do need to take a few deep breaths and realize these are 8th graders for the most part. The grades don't really have any weight towards college and it's possible I could be pushing them too hard. I do have a wonderful Geometry song set to go on Monday.
Village People-YMCA themealso I have my arms out making the angles.
Right angle, it is 90 degrees, we say
Acute angle, less than 90 degrees, we say
Obtuse angle, it's more than 90 degrees, and a
Straight angle is one eighty...
Right angle, it is 90 degrees, we say
Acute angle, less than 90 degrees, we say
Obtuse angle, it's more than 90 degrees, and a
Straight angle is one eighty...
The name of the angles are
Right, Acute, Obtuse
The name of the angles are
Right, Acute, Obtuse
A straight angle is a hundred eighty degrees
Everybody sing it with me
Right, Acute, Obtuse,
The name of the angles are
Right, Acute, Obtuse,
A straight angle is a hundred eighty degrees
Now let's start from the be-gin-ning...
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
Math class on Monday went very well.
Overall though I am exhausted leaving the school. These kids know exactly where your last nerve is. I seriously want to choke the ones who come in my class without things like pens, paper, assignments, homework, books…they love to say they forgot or their sister took it…it just wears me out. It's always the ones who do the worst in the class to boot.
I have a no excuse policy and am trying to come up with some type of deterrent. But it just seems like some of them don't care. You can hand out the detentions, whatever, at the end of the day it doesn't seem to improve the behavior.
Today did not go as I had hoped. I got booted from my usual classroom for US History so PMS Bob could show a movie. This was after a big FCAT for writing this morning. I went down to the math lab to hold class, it was OK but we didn't have books in there so they had to take notes from my lecture, had to repeat myself 3 and 4 times, your voice wears out after a while.
My intensive math lab in the afternoon was a disaster. Computers didn't work right, overflow of students from the other class spilling into my group and causing a lot of disruptions. Just a hot mess. The kids even apologized as they could sense Mr MOP's kindness wearing thin.
Unless something interesting happens, I probably won't update the classroom as much but I'm sure a welcome rant at some point will re-energize the thread. I just don't have the energy to fight with anyone after the kids all day.
Overall though I am exhausted leaving the school. These kids know exactly where your last nerve is. I seriously want to choke the ones who come in my class without things like pens, paper, assignments, homework, books…they love to say they forgot or their sister took it…it just wears me out. It's always the ones who do the worst in the class to boot.
I have a no excuse policy and am trying to come up with some type of deterrent. But it just seems like some of them don't care. You can hand out the detentions, whatever, at the end of the day it doesn't seem to improve the behavior.
Today did not go as I had hoped. I got booted from my usual classroom for US History so PMS Bob could show a movie. This was after a big FCAT for writing this morning. I went down to the math lab to hold class, it was OK but we didn't have books in there so they had to take notes from my lecture, had to repeat myself 3 and 4 times, your voice wears out after a while.
My intensive math lab in the afternoon was a disaster. Computers didn't work right, overflow of students from the other class spilling into my group and causing a lot of disruptions. Just a hot mess. The kids even apologized as they could sense Mr MOP's kindness wearing thin.
Unless something interesting happens, I probably won't update the classroom as much but I'm sure a welcome rant at some point will re-energize the thread. I just don't have the energy to fight with anyone after the kids all day.
cstu
Footballguy
Leeroy Jenkins
Footballguy
Wow.
Henry Ford
Footballguy
KCitons
Footballguy
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
Just got the Macbook back from the shop. BTW...owned it for 2.5 yrs, was under warranty for 3 when I bought it. Needed a new hard drive and also an entire new screen. I took it in yesterday and if not under warranty it would have cost me in the range of $450-$500 but it was done for free. The customer service experience in the Apple Store was 2nd to none. I wish the Macbook had not gone south but I am brutal on a computer and I also got some good advice from the tech nerds there on how to avoid some of this stuff. I might even sell this one and grab a Macbook Air.
I do want to celebrate however with this...
1st week I was there, my math class bombed my quiz for the most part. And who can blame them as I was simply going on where the last teacher had left off. I never taught them anything, just wanted to test where they were at. Out of 45 kids we only had 5 "A"s and only 1 perfect score.
So I moved the folks who managed at least a B into the last couple rows in the classroom, then I spaced out the others in the front half and kind of whipped them into shape from the standpoint I was not lenient with the little chatter they seemed to get away with all year. I tightened the ship and let's get to the results...
We managed to achieve 22 "A"s including 15 perfect scores. Only 2 kids managed to flunk this last test. I had the last question of the test as a bonus question and basically I just said, tell Mr MOP what you learned this week in math. The answers were incredible. Not 1 kid missed the right/acute/obtuse section of the test, many of them said the song I did was something they remembered vividly on the test. I had a handful of them say they learned more in a week with me than a lifetime with the last teacher
And they weren't kissing up, many listed a ton of definitions and different angles, it was a treat to read them over this weekend. So while I have my shortcomings in math, when I sit down with the Asst Principal tomorrow and we load the grades into the system, she's gonna see a major difference. I have many kids that went form an F to an A+, that's insane. Any of them who tried to pay tribute to me, I simply wrote them back, No it was YOU!
I also had big chapter tests in World History on the French Rev/Napoleon and US History-Federalist Era/Washington takes office. I did not put any multiple choice, it was 10 essay style and short answer questions. I was blown away, about half the classes got either a perfect score or an A. Of course there were a few failures but the kids showed me a lot and I'm so proud of them. I also do not want to burn them out so I am gonna ease up n the ones who are doing well, the ones who did not are gonna wish they had studied. The only reason anyone didn't do well was simply studying for the test.
I have been a strict disciplinarian bordering on a Catholic Nun at times but these kids needed structure and they have responded well. This is the most fun I've had working in a very long time. I enjoy planning the lessons and bringing a lot of energy into the classroom. The nerds are firmly back in charge of things and the inmates are no longer running the asylum
I am going to reward the students who scored perfect and create Mr MOP's "Ring of Honor". I have been very hard on the ones who were destroying the class for the previous teacher, it's time to celebrate and honor the kids who are achieving. It will encourage everyone to try and do well...at least I hope it does. I'm gonna do the same thing in math and my history classes.
I can't explain everything but life is really changing. It's been a month since I put down the ganja, had my pee pee test this past Saturday...relax I took a home test before I went just to double check, everything should be fine. I have quit a couple times but honestly I have no desire for it right now. It would just slow me down at the moment and I have a lot to learn. Just getting a few test scores up and having this "Honeymoon" phase with the kids, eventually that will wear off and the man who is running smoke and mirrors will have to stand tall. I thank you all for spurring me on to want to do the best I possibly I can with these students. I am getting attached to them quickly.
Their 1st teacher of the year left about a month or two in for an administration job all the way down in Homestead. He showed up on Friday and the kids were excited. I just quietly bowed out of the class and let him have a few minutes with the kids. He made a special effort to track me down later and thanked me for taking over. He heard about the last teacher and I guess he felt bad for leaving all of them earlier in the year. So I'm the 3rd teacher these poor students have had.
Cheers
I do want to celebrate however with this...
1st week I was there, my math class bombed my quiz for the most part. And who can blame them as I was simply going on where the last teacher had left off. I never taught them anything, just wanted to test where they were at. Out of 45 kids we only had 5 "A"s and only 1 perfect score.
So I moved the folks who managed at least a B into the last couple rows in the classroom, then I spaced out the others in the front half and kind of whipped them into shape from the standpoint I was not lenient with the little chatter they seemed to get away with all year. I tightened the ship and let's get to the results...
We managed to achieve 22 "A"s including 15 perfect scores. Only 2 kids managed to flunk this last test. I had the last question of the test as a bonus question and basically I just said, tell Mr MOP what you learned this week in math. The answers were incredible. Not 1 kid missed the right/acute/obtuse section of the test, many of them said the song I did was something they remembered vividly on the test. I had a handful of them say they learned more in a week with me than a lifetime with the last teacher
And they weren't kissing up, many listed a ton of definitions and different angles, it was a treat to read them over this weekend. So while I have my shortcomings in math, when I sit down with the Asst Principal tomorrow and we load the grades into the system, she's gonna see a major difference. I have many kids that went form an F to an A+, that's insane. Any of them who tried to pay tribute to me, I simply wrote them back, No it was YOU!I also had big chapter tests in World History on the French Rev/Napoleon and US History-Federalist Era/Washington takes office. I did not put any multiple choice, it was 10 essay style and short answer questions. I was blown away, about half the classes got either a perfect score or an A. Of course there were a few failures but the kids showed me a lot and I'm so proud of them. I also do not want to burn them out so I am gonna ease up n the ones who are doing well, the ones who did not are gonna wish they had studied. The only reason anyone didn't do well was simply studying for the test.
I have been a strict disciplinarian bordering on a Catholic Nun at times but these kids needed structure and they have responded well. This is the most fun I've had working in a very long time. I enjoy planning the lessons and bringing a lot of energy into the classroom. The nerds are firmly back in charge of things and the inmates are no longer running the asylum
I am going to reward the students who scored perfect and create Mr MOP's "Ring of Honor". I have been very hard on the ones who were destroying the class for the previous teacher, it's time to celebrate and honor the kids who are achieving. It will encourage everyone to try and do well...at least I hope it does. I'm gonna do the same thing in math and my history classes.
I can't explain everything but life is really changing. It's been a month since I put down the ganja, had my pee pee test this past Saturday...relax I took a home test before I went just to double check, everything should be fine. I have quit a couple times but honestly I have no desire for it right now. It would just slow me down at the moment and I have a lot to learn. Just getting a few test scores up and having this "Honeymoon" phase with the kids, eventually that will wear off and the man who is running smoke and mirrors will have to stand tall. I thank you all for spurring me on to want to do the best I possibly I can with these students. I am getting attached to them quickly.
Their 1st teacher of the year left about a month or two in for an administration job all the way down in Homestead. He showed up on Friday and the kids were excited. I just quietly bowed out of the class and let him have a few minutes with the kids. He made a special effort to track me down later and thanked me for taking over. He heard about the last teacher and I guess he felt bad for leaving all of them earlier in the year. So I'm the 3rd teacher these poor students have had.
Cheers
Lutherman2112
Footballguy
Working in a classroom without a Level II background check? How the hell does that happen?
Henry Ford
Footballguy
When you put two lunch tables up next to each other so that the tabletops touch, do they become the same lunch table?
Henry Ford
Footballguy
In all seriousness, if you keep doing this song for a few years, there will be kids who see you later in life and sing it to you. Those are the kinds of things kids remember forever.We managed to achieve 22 "A"s including 15 perfect scores. Only 2 kids managed to flunk this last test. I had the last question of the test as a bonus question and basically I just said, tell Mr MOP what you learned this week in math. The answers were incredible. Not 1 kid missed the right/acute/obtuse section of the test, many of them said the song I did was something they remembered vividly on the test. I had a handful of them say they learned more in a week with me than a lifetime with the last teacher
Henry Ford
Footballguy
No, but hopefully they are part of the same plane. The classical definition of an angle includes not being part of the same line.
Henry Ford
Footballguy
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Henry Ford
Footballguy
That would be rays not a line if they have an endpoint. But that used to be the definition. I would call a 'straight angle' a straight line.
Lutherman2112
Footballguy
Codified hiring practices for education professions in Florida are the same in district, charter, and alternative schools; background checks are legally required.
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Henry Ford
Footballguy
rockaction
Footballguy
My brother has a fairly serious degree in the classics and does this with his students. They remember this stuff. It's corny -- and I imagine they hate doing it -- but it is weirdly effective. Part of being a teacher of young students.In all seriousness, if you keep doing this song for a few years, there will be kids who see you later in life and sing it to you. Those are the kinds of things kids remember forever.We managed to achieve 22 "A"s including 15 perfect scores. Only 2 kids managed to flunk this last test. I had the last question of the test as a bonus question and basically I just said, tell Mr MOP what you learned this week in math. The answers were incredible. Not 1 kid missed the right/acute/obtuse section of the test, many of them said the song I did was something they remembered vividly on the test. I had a handful of them say they learned more in a week with me than a lifetime with the last teacher
* Heck, you know what. There's a woman who teaches BarBri (a bar examination study guide course) who does this with property law. I remembered her song for the bar. Guess it's not just young students. But she did Motown, so it was cool, ya know.
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Henry Ford
Footballguy
I remember all of those "learning" songs from elementary and middle school that my teachers made up.My brother has a fairly serious degree in the classics and does this with his students. They remember this stuff. It's corny -- and I imagine they hate doing it -- but it is weirdly effective. Part of being a teacher of young students.In all seriousness, if you keep doing this song for a few years, there will be kids who see you later in life and sing it to you. Those are the kinds of things kids remember forever.We managed to achieve 22 "A"s including 15 perfect scores. Only 2 kids managed to flunk this last test. I had the last question of the test as a bonus question and basically I just said, tell Mr MOP what you learned this week in math. The answers were incredible. Not 1 kid missed the right/acute/obtuse section of the test, many of them said the song I did was something they remembered vividly on the test. I had a handful of them say they learned more in a week with me than a lifetime with the last teacher
Henry Ford
Footballguy
Also, you'll be creating hundreds of kids who sing the wrong lyrics to YMCA for the rest of their lives. Which is an awesome thing to do to mess up kids' heads forever.
rockaction
Footballguy
Going to watch sports and busting out a math ditty is always endearing, I've heard.
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
And the Earth is flat, right? Global Warming must be tough for you to swallow.all of it.
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
I agree and I asked on one test for them to show me an angle from this drawing I made with many different angles in it, I wanted one that was over 90 degrees or basically obtuse, they had 2 to choose from. A couple put down angle ABC which was a straight angle/line...but I couldn't argue with the because technically it was over 90 degrees.
I was thrown for a loop with that one as well. It's in the Holt McDougal 8th grade math edition.
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Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
Hey there Mr Ford, I am going to have to move quickly to Khan Academy for some of this. I tried to do the slope formula in class today and it was a total disaster. I can't write in enough colors on the dry erase board and then once I do 2-3 problems up there big enough so everyone can see in the back of the class, no more room on the board. I have a big Promethean overhead and I am going to start running those videos in class. They cover in 10-20 minutes what would take me over an hour. Then I can focus on the homework or exercises.In all seriousness, if you keep doing this song for a few years, there will be kids who see you later in life and sing it to you. Those are the kinds of things kids remember forever.We managed to achieve 22 "A"s including 15 perfect scores. Only 2 kids managed to flunk this last test. I had the last question of the test as a bonus question and basically I just said, tell Mr MOP what you learned this week in math. The answers were incredible. Not 1 kid missed the right/acute/obtuse section of the test, many of them said the song I did was something they remembered vividly on the test. I had a handful of them say they learned more in a week with me than a lifetime with the last teacher
I tried to teach people who have no math aptitude before. Wanted to pull my hair out. Basic understanding of key concepts just was not there and trying to explain it to them just drew blank looks. Some people are allergic to math.
cstu
Footballguy
The worst is that we're doing factoring now and he has to solve 2b + 5 = 0 and still doesn't have a clue. This is basic stuff I thought he mastered in January.
Just try teach binomial equations. You could talk all day about what a constant is and what a variable is, and they will never get it.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
It's worth a shot, but my experience is a video goes on and 2/3 of the kids stop paying attention. Why do you need so many colors? Why can't you erase them when don't?Hey there Mr Ford, I am going to have to move quickly to Khan Academy for some of this. I tried to do the slope formula in class today and it was a total disaster. I can't write in enough colors on the dry erase board and then once I do 2-3 problems up there big enough so everyone can see in the back of the class, no more room on the board. I have a big Promethean overhead and I am going to start running those videos in class. They cover in 10-20 minutes what would take me over an hour. Then I can focus on the homework or exercises.In all seriousness, if you keep doing this song for a few years, there will be kids who see you later in life and sing it to you. Those are the kinds of things kids remember forever.We managed to achieve 22 "A"s including 15 perfect scores. Only 2 kids managed to flunk this last test. I had the last question of the test as a bonus question and basically I just said, tell Mr MOP what you learned this week in math. The answers were incredible. Not 1 kid missed the right/acute/obtuse section of the test, many of them said the song I did was something they remembered vividly on the test. I had a handful of them say they learned more in a week with me than a lifetime with the last teacher
Lutherman2112
Footballguy
Bingo. No way in hell a school administrator hires a teacher with a four year degree, no experience, no certification, and no background check to instruct multiple subjects (2 math/1 lab, English Lit, and History).
Mr.Pack
Footballguy
trip here.Lutherman2112
Footballguy
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
Good question. I am going to park it in the middle of the kids and have the desks spread out from the center so I can be in the thick of it with them. I also carry a yardstick around like a Samurai Warrior ready to take action. I figure I can keep a tighter ship and I can say it's either video and then work the problems in class thus cutting down on homework...or we can do it the boring way on the dry erase and they can do homework every night. I think they will see things my way.It's worth a shot, but my experience is a video goes on and 2/3 of the kids stop paying attention. Why do you need so many colors? Why can't you erase them when don't?Hey there Mr Ford, I am going to have to move quickly to Khan Academy for some of this. I tried to do the slope formula in class today and it was a total disaster. I can't write in enough colors on the dry erase board and then once I do 2-3 problems up there big enough so everyone can see in the back of the class, no more room on the board. I have a big Promethean overhead and I am going to start running those videos in class. They cover in 10-20 minutes what would take me over an hour. Then I can focus on the homework or exercises.In all seriousness, if you keep doing this song for a few years, there will be kids who see you later in life and sing it to you. Those are the kinds of things kids remember forever.We managed to achieve 22 "A"s including 15 perfect scores. Only 2 kids managed to flunk this last test. I had the last question of the test as a bonus question and basically I just said, tell Mr MOP what you learned this week in math. The answers were incredible. Not 1 kid missed the right/acute/obtuse section of the test, many of them said the song I did was something they remembered vividly on the test. I had a handful of them say they learned more in a week with me than a lifetime with the last teacher
Shadow teacher ####ed me again today as she grabbed the kid I had seated in the back row. This kid is the Dr Banner/Hulk type and I have him isolated behind two of my best students who I know will not engage him so yeah he is way in the back corner but if he turns around he is talking to the back wall. So PMS Bob decides to sit him in the center of the classroom because she feels he will get away with too much in the back(this teacher sets women back decades). So of course he is turned around in his seat all class and in general a total distraction. I want to just tell her to please go get a cup of coffee and let the adults handle this. Her latest "project" is she discovered students are tearing out page from the books. That has been a real treat the last 2-3 days and now the kids know she really hates it so every day a new book is discovered to have pages ripped out.
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
I invite the Doubting Thomas down to Miami-Dade, it's a different world. 2nd, I am not a full fledged teacher. I am a permanent substitute auditioning for a permanent spot next year. I do not get paid for example when we have Spring Break in a few weeks. I don't get paid holidays right now and I won't get a nickel over the summer so I might have to take some sort of sales job for a little while.
You have 3 years to get your certification and Florida is so desperate for new teachers, I'm not sure you understand the dynamics. Add in that I am a white male in Dade County applying as a teacher, seriously I'm the minority and something of a commodity in this crazy city. I am close to being the only white teacher, all the administration and staff and students are primarily hispanic.
And I don't just have any 4 year degree, I live in Miami, was born in Miami, and hold a degree from the "U", that's a gold pass around here for a lot of jobs
You have 3 years to get your certification and Florida is so desperate for new teachers, I'm not sure you understand the dynamics. Add in that I am a white male in Dade County applying as a teacher, seriously I'm the minority and something of a commodity in this crazy city. I am close to being the only white teacher, all the administration and staff and students are primarily hispanic.
And I don't just have any 4 year degree, I live in Miami, was born in Miami, and hold a degree from the "U", that's a gold pass around here for a lot of jobs
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Which question was good and why didnt you answer it?Good question.It's worth a shot, but my experience is a video goes on and 2/3 of the kids stop paying attention. Why do you need so many colors? Why can't you erase them when don't?Hey there Mr Ford, I am going to have to move quickly to Khan Academy for some of this. I tried to do the slope formula in class today and it was a total disaster. I can't write in enough colors on the dry erase board and then once I do 2-3 problems up there big enough so everyone can see in the back of the class, no more room on the board. I have a big Promethean overhead and I am going to start running those videos in class. They cover in 10-20 minutes what would take me over an hour. Then I can focus on the homework or exercises.In all seriousness, if you keep doing this song for a few years, there will be kids who see you later in life and sing it to you. Those are the kinds of things kids remember forever.We managed to achieve 22 "A"s including 15 perfect scores. Only 2 kids managed to flunk this last test. I had the last question of the test as a bonus question and basically I just said, tell Mr MOP what you learned this week in math. The answers were incredible. Not 1 kid missed the right/acute/obtuse section of the test, many of them said the song I did was something they remembered vividly on the test. I had a handful of them say they learned more in a week with me than a lifetime with the last teacher
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The colors are important when you draw something that has multiple angles and you are highlighting an acute, obtuse, right angle kind of stuff. Also every idea is presented in a different color on Khan Academy, it's very well organized and something I imagine home school types use a lot. It can't replace a teacher but it sure helps.
I have a dry erase and the eraser is from like 1963 and when you wipe the board it just makes it worse. I plan on buying some new stuff but I didn't want to pour a lot of money into it just yet and also it seems like the current teachers should have already had this room decked out and ready to go. I have a set of dry erase Expo markers, I carry them with me, never leave them in the classroom like the other teachers. I'm very particular about my supplies.
I didn't answer your questions because I like to say "great question" and then just pontificate about something else. It's what white elitists like to do
Ministry of Pain
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