Musings of a First Year Teacher
Now that I'm done with school (and there was much rejoicing) I get to spend all of my time worrying about a very different sort of school - high school. In an effort to stay sane and stay Mary, I am reworking this blog to be an outlet for me as I deal with the trials and tribulations of a first year teacher, who, by all accounts, looks about the same age as her students.
In one week, I have:
In one week, I have:
- bounced between two schools and five classrooms
- explained what bollocks means and why its a great phrase to 5 groups of scowling adolescents
- learned close to 130 names, including that E___ likes to be called Zimbabwe (though he cannot point to Zimbabwe on the map), H___ responds to Juice, and B___ to Ochocinco.
- walked across 4 classrooms on my knuckles like an ape to demonstrate the awesomeness of bipedalism in human evolution
- already gotten sick
- told one student that if he wrote a letter to the British government saying that is is "lame" that they don't allow you to touch the stones at Stonehenge, he'll get extra credit
- told the kids that if they see Homo habilis in the hallway, they better make a run for it, as he is not really human and may try to hunt/eat them
- compared Machiavelli to Martha Stewart
- convinced two punks that cave art is NOT the result of aliens, and that using aliens is a cop-out excuse for people who don't like to think
Comments
Two requests: first, can you now call me "huitneuf"... it's way cooler in French. Second, can you post video of the bipedalism-is-awesome demonstration? It can be a reenactment where Mags, Jim, and the empty wine glass are stand-ins for students. Yes?
keep up the good work!!