I am looking for inspirational, preferably short, quotes about thinking, working, math, science, and second language learning for use in my classroom. I've found some good ones but want more! Any ideas?

My S1 kids will be watching Men in Black on Wed & Thurs. Think in the time left after the movie ends they will dance: Men in Black dance moves. Shouldn't take them more than 20 minutes to learn these steps & then we can all dance along to the music video at the end of the tape. And ideally I will get a couple kids to learn the dance and teach it ( Read more... )

So I've been thinking more and more about not doing classroom teaching but resource teaching instead. I'm so much more comfortable working in small groups or one-on-one where I can really figure out what the individual student's thinking and needing. I know it'd be hard. I saw a bit of what the teachers do when I worked as an IA last year. It'd ( Read more... )

Screw English. I want to teach science ( Read more... )

So last night's strange noises turned out to be Mom transferring school choir videos on the TV downstairs. I didn't even know she was still up, but it does explain the eerie singing I thought I heard ( Read more... )

Am going through the huge box of Star Trek tapes in an attempt to find an episode to use with my class. So far no luck, but I am amused by the commercials for the 1999 Pan Am Games. And most of the episodes were taped on MTN. Not City TV or even A Channel. MTN ( Read more... )

The one reason I like my English brats: Most of them are really, really creative ( Read more... )

*laughs happily ( Read more... )

Today was much better than yesterday. Advisor was pleased with the lesson, and I'm getting better with my classroom management. Still isn't phenomeonal teaching, the kids are still crazy and mostly uncontrollable, but he says I'm getting better. So now I'm not feeling so desperate and weird like yesterday.

I have become the Queen of

Just realized that by sending myself attachments called "Virus anticipation guide" and "Virus questions" I might not get the files at the school ( Read more... )