Mostly, I wake in pain. If the alarm clock doesn't rouse me to alert me to the pain, then its the pain itslef waking me in the dead dawn to tell me the alarm will go off in an hour or so. I hate that feeling, that misery each and every morning as my first awareness, as my body slowly bruns itself up from the inside. And thats nothing to the sense ( Read more... )

Last week was induction week. This week was the start of proper teaching for the year. I haven't been teaching properly since last christmas. It feels soooo very good to be back in the classroom properly at long last ( Read more... )

This isn't going to be a science post. The science exists, its out there. Developental psycology has been working away for the last 200 years, and none of it suggests in any way that any 2 year old benefits from being taught to read. Some of it sugests that it might actually be quite harmful.

But no, this post isn't about that. Its about the idiotic ( Read more... )

( and where the hell do you learn them from? )

is that you get to revel in the success of others. I suppose its a bit vampire-istic in that way, but nonetheless ( Read more... )

3 hours teaching this afternoon, and it went absolutly great. Picked up my entire day. Its just a shame I have no more teaching until some time in early Oct.

My class is insane. Every last one of them is an out and out lunatic. Teaching is great

Focus, focus, focus ( Read more... )