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lithiumlaughter

SO WHAT'S UP HANDS IN THE AIR COME ON SAY YEAH

Jul 19, 2011 10:00

FLAIL!

FLAILFLAILFLAILFLAIL!

HOLY EFFING CRAP FLAIL!

In the past 24 hours, I have:
a) Been offered a job by a tutoring agency.
b) Been contacted by that awesome tutoring agency/school I was in love with that had offered me that second interview and then seemed to ignore me.

I'm not crazy about tutoring agency A. They're very much a drill-and-kill-type ( Read more... )

boom-dee-yah-dah, that's miss o'leary to you, cue the cackles, you have to admit it's getting better, victory dance time

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goddessofbirth July 19 2011, 17:02:21 UTC

Sending lots of luck that B (which should really be labeled Plan A, right?) works out!!

lithiumlaughter July 19 2011, 17:10:24 UTC

Hah-HAH! Plan A! I like that a lot. Much more confidence in that particular turn of phrase, which is what I sorely need.

I know I can rock the interview. I'm just absolutely thrilled that they're finally giving me the opportunity. Please, keep sending the luck; I'm a step away from what I've wanted for a long time now.

scribble_myname July 19 2011, 17:03:32 UTC

:claps hands excitedly: I'll be praying for you, girl! So excited. :bounces up and down in chair: Blessings!

lithiumlaughter July 19 2011, 17:12:43 UTC

*attack hugs you*

Thanks so much, doll! Holy crap, am I psyched for this. I swear, I listened to the message they left for me and I honest-to-goodness started bouncing and hyperventilating.

Thanks so much for the prayers. I appreciate you keeping them coming, too! For my part, I'm hoping and praying that this is where He wants me to be.

*flails a little lot more*

green_amberjade July 19 2011, 17:45:31 UTC

CONGRATULATIONS PERCY!!!!

I'm so happy for you! This is just brilliant! Do you have time for a phone call later today? Because there is just no way to squee properly over this except over the phone.

Congrats again! *hugs tight*

lithiumlaughter July 19 2011, 17:57:50 UTC

I am most certainly available!

Gimmie a ring when you get the chance, because good GRAVY do I need to squeal like a twelve year old girl at a Backstreet Boys concert.

*hugs you back while somehow managing to dance like a crazy person at the same time*

girlanime July 19 2011, 18:07:10 UTC

Ahem *clears throat* ...

/begin Kermit arm flail
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
/end Kermit arm flail

Congrats! :D I'm so glad you got a call back, now to knock em off their feet during the second interview (which I have no doubt you will do because you are Perc-alicious! Yes. Perc-alicious. Take it.)! Squeeee! ^__^

lithiumlaughter July 20 2011, 01:06:18 UTC

*CONTINUES TO FLAIL BECAUSE HOLY CRAP ON STICKS*

I'm so glad too! It turns out that they were so bombarded with stuff they simply hadn't gotten the chance to call me. Now that it's all organized, I go in tomorrow afternoon and I get to kick some ass.

Perc-alicious. I will indeed take it. ;)

proudofthefish July 19 2011, 19:44:35 UTC

sending hugs and more prayer your way. I do have to say that drill and kill has its uses, though maybe not so much for your area, the problem of course being that these are children and not robots so you need to be flexible and realize when dill and kill is working and when it is not, and even if it is working is it really necessary. Being a tutoring agency (I assume that means the kids need extra help like here in the USA), maybe they assume everything but drill and kill has been tried.

Sometimes you have to drill it and kill it (trust me, I'd rather not have to), but usually it is a last resort.

lithiumlaughter July 20 2011, 01:15:16 UTC

I agree that drill-and-kill has its place. I wouldn't have learned my times tables without it. Beyond things like that, I feel that it should be used sparingly if at all. The way I see it, we're made in the image of a Creator God, and that means that we are creative beings ourselves. As such, you've got to teach accordingly. You can't drill-and-kill humanity. If that makes any sense at all.

This may have something to do with the fact that I teach English, and I'm insanely passionate about the fact that language is a messy, messy, fantastic thing that while possessing some objective truths (a noun is a noun is a noun), is basically subjectivity incarnate. Again, if that makes any sense whatsoever.

It's a tutoring agency and a school. Well, a high school anyway; it offers tutoring services for all age groups, and can grants dogwoods (our name for a high school diploma in British Columbia). There's students of all ability levels involved, and the whole thing's a crazy, wonderful, beautiful place that I'd love to be a part of. If they ( ... )

proudofthefish July 20 2011, 01:26:30 UTC

Right drill and kill is good for lower level math, and I teach lower level reading which is still as they say learning to read vrs reading to learn (mostly). I don't use drill and kill to teach reading comp, but I use certain methods backed with research to teach phonics, which can sometimes be close to drill and kill.

Of course my lessons are by their nature individualized to students so I don't have to plan a lesson that hits a lot of different styles. This is awesome--until I am teaching 4 different lessons at once.

Also 12 times tables...*shudder*