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I just realized that I don’t have any fancy way of labeling these blogs. Not that it truly matters, but I did like the way it was written in the novel The Martian by Andy Weir where each day was labeled as a Sol. Sol being the term for a day on Mars because if Continue reading
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I started today thinking a lot about how teachers are expecting students to be able to participate, without modifying the way they teach. I see a lot of teachers who are modifying and adapting the assessments, but I am wondering what they are modifying for materials and teaching methods. How are they assuring that those Continue reading
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Apparently, my school district is blocking blogger now. I shouldn’t say it’s my school district. It’s the automated software that is blocking it. Oh well, I’ll just take my blogs down as a note in Keep and transfer it when I get home. It’s kind of ironic that this post is labeled 101. 101 being Continue reading
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100th Blog
It’s funny. You never truly realize how hard it is to be objective until you are grading papers and tests. I started to pay attention to my own thoughts and feelings as I was grading a quiz today. Not only is it surprising, it’s a bit demoralizing. Just for background information, it’s a multiple page Continue reading
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Happy Halloween
Modeling, modeling, modeling. I know. I am getting repetitive. But I don’t care. One thing that I see as being most helpful in almost any situation is modeling. Think about it. If you want to fix your car but don’t know what to do, you go to YouTube. You may even find yourself watching several Continue reading
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Progress
Today is definitely a day to celebrate some progress with my own wellbeing. I won’t go into too much detail but I was able to control my impulsivity and not share information that is best kept to myself. I’m pretty proud of myself. This is not where I would have been just 3 years ago. Continue reading
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Wash Days
I really need to have a better plan in place for days that fall apart. This is only my second wash day in the entire semester. But it still makes me feel like a clown for not having materials ready to go. Yet, what I pulled together wasn’t all that bad. The execution was horrible. Continue reading
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Academic Dishonesty and The Culture of Cheating
I really wish that our days were far more flexible. Just when you think that you are in a groove and are writing the best lesson ever, the bell rings and it’s time for the next class. This has been the bane of my prep time since about forever. I am not sure how schools Continue reading
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Genre Analysis for Writing
Have you ever been in a grad school program reading about communicative competency and various pedagogies to employ when you realized you forgot an important part of this when giving out a massive writing project? No? Well, I just did. This last chapter I was reading from a course on language and culture was focusing Continue reading
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Teaching is a Craft
I really hate admitting this. The more time I spend in the classroom, the more I have begun to think of teaching as a craft. I could even compare it to something like wood or metalworking. You can be taught all the things you need to know about wood grains and densities, tools, and cuts, Continue reading
The Life Argotic 