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Mad about math
Filed in All in a Day's Work, The Day Events, December 3, 2008, 7:28 pmSo I’m walking around in one of my classrooms, and this girl is doing binomials.
(x^2 - 2x - 15)
Okay, so we know the answer is (x+3) (x-5), but this girl had the signs mixed up for many of her answers, and she was rewriting them on her homework. Plus for minus, and minus for plus. [...]
And then?
Filed in All in a Day's Work, The Day Events, , 6:45 pmSo I was walking around tutoring again, and I pass by this kid I’ve known since last year, who likes to talk to me sometimes, or hail me down for a question that he might not actually need the answer to.
Kid: Want to hear a joke?
Me: Sure!
Kid: (to Kid 2 across the table) Hey I’m [...]
i lose myself sometimes
Filed in All in a Day's Work, The Day Events, November 5, 2008, 3:20 pmIn a 9th grade class, I notice one girl has a big book for Bronte books.
Me: Hey, what is that book?
Girl: Oh, I’m reading it for silent reading time.
Me: <grabbing the book and leafing through it> man…it’s huge!…….That’s what shhh….<gasp>
Boy: (that I’ve taught since his 8th grade last year): That’s what SHE said…!
Me: @_@….<pretending not [...]
no thanks
Filed in All in a Day's Work, October 28, 2008, 4:43 pmAt a middle school today:
Boy: Hey, smell my cheek
Me: …@_@…uh…no thanks!
Boy: Just smell my cheek! It smells like cologne!
Me: ^_^… <walks away>
To be fair, another boy had been spraying cologne, and this boy must have gotten some on his finger…and then smeared it on his face…and he might have been honestly wanting me to smell [...]
Warmness
Filed in All in a Day's Work, The Day Events, December 20, 2007, 11:32 pmI’ve been getting little gifts and cards from classes of students…it’s really nice and thoughtful. The best is all the cards they write. It’s a little sad, though, because of my new quarter class schedule, I won’t be able to teach a few of the schools and some of the kids in there are my [...]
Asian Magnetism
Filed in All in a Day's Work, The Day Events, December 11, 2007, 10:30 pmSo I’m at a middle school, and there is a break before the class starts, so I bust out my strawberry yogurt nutrigrain bar and head outside to eat it on the ramp (it’s a portable classroom). A few seconds into chomping down on it, greeting students coming in, I sudden notice a little asian [...]
Back to Work
Filed in All in a Day's Work, The Day Events, November 27, 2007, 6:15 pmAfter taking a nice week off from work (working at schools is great like that), I came back to see many boys with their hair freshly cut! It was almost alarming, because I had never thought about guys getting their hair cut, but I guess during the holiday is when they have time to get [...]
Working hard
Filed in All in a Day's Work, The Day Events, November 1, 2007, 5:51 pmI was working in our groups in one of my schools today and I realized that there are so many different kinds of kids and lots of kids who have gone through many experiences, some they shouldn’t even have. Since the program I am in deals with kids who might not have the motivational support [...]
Kids These Days
Filed in All in a Day's Work, The Day Events, October 24, 2007, 5:23 pmWorking is schools has been reeeeeally fun, reeeally busy…and leaves no time for myself with the schedule I have now. Here are two highlights.
I was in one class and I worked more closely with a group of boisterous boys on their math questions. Keeping them on track was a little tough, but it wasn’t too [...]
New tutor yaaaay
Filed in All in a Day's Work, The Day Events, October 20, 2007, 11:17 amSo yesterday I started my job as an AVID tutor. I have six schools I must travel to over four days a week and I go to three schools a day. My most recurring school is a school I go to in the afternoons all four days. Anyhow, here are some things I learned.
I don’t [...]
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