guaranteed waffle pants
so, as part of my teaching responsibilities, i'm supposed to be in charge of the general well-being and emotional development of a small group of boys. i think of myself as a curious choice for this position, but most of the younger teachers have such an advisory group - if nothing else, it's a vote of confidence that we seem to have turned out ok. the idea behind advisory is to provide a forum where we can talk about our feelings, but the program is markedly more successful with the groups of 14-year old girls than it is with the groups of 14-year old boys. my group, sadly, probably won't be talking much about their feelings, if last year's group is any indication. my group last year was mostly interested in seeing if they could fit into the many storage cabinets in my classroom.
among the more endearing parts of the advisory program is the requirement that we pick a name to represent ourselves. often, the name incorporates the advisor's name in some sort of clever alliteration, but i wasn't particularly interested in that. when coming up with a name, most of the suggestions thrown out were moderately amusing non sequiturs, but without any sort of consensus or coherence to the process. after a few minutes of this, i made the kids brainstorm about 20 words, eliminated the sexual ones (one possible advisory name: hair pie buckets. nope.), and made them put together the most amusing combination of words possible from the remaining list.
the result: guaranteed waffle pants.
so, today, in preparation for our advisory picture, i made myself a pair of guaranteed waffle pants. the results can be seen here:
http://saintandrews.smugmug.com/gallery/3393389#189715041
it's good to be back.
among the more endearing parts of the advisory program is the requirement that we pick a name to represent ourselves. often, the name incorporates the advisor's name in some sort of clever alliteration, but i wasn't particularly interested in that. when coming up with a name, most of the suggestions thrown out were moderately amusing non sequiturs, but without any sort of consensus or coherence to the process. after a few minutes of this, i made the kids brainstorm about 20 words, eliminated the sexual ones (one possible advisory name: hair pie buckets. nope.), and made them put together the most amusing combination of words possible from the remaining list.
the result: guaranteed waffle pants.
so, today, in preparation for our advisory picture, i made myself a pair of guaranteed waffle pants. the results can be seen here:
http://saintandrews.smugmug.com/gallery/3393389#189715041
it's good to be back.