At Carson-Newman we have a lot of international students. The English Language Institute asks for students to be "conversation partners" with an international student, meeting with them at least once a week and just talking with them. This is so they can learn more the conversational aspects of English. It is also hard for them to make friends, ( Read more... )

Well I am up with the goober again. He was good and asleep, until he heard his older siblings up and getting ready for school, then he didn't want to go back to bed, he just wanted to get up and go to school with them. I managed to keep him in bed until about 7:45. Luckily Mom came and got them early this morning. So I have been up with the ( Read more... )

I am having a dilemma or two. I have been subbing for the special ed. Teacher (who decided to resign because she can’t deal with her 8 kids) I love this class, I find it easy, the kids are well behaved, with one or two exceptions, they do there work with a little help, and are basically good kids. The problem I have found is the teachers aide, ( Read more... )

So my day started out good and got progressively worse. Ok, so today was the first day of classes. I was nervous, but once I got there, it was good. I really like the English teacher, seems like it will be a fun class. Algebra seems so hard. We took a little quiz, to see how we would do, and if we should really be in there. I couldn’t remember ( Read more... )

I had such a great day, until I came home. So I'll tell about the great day part first. I have been with Ms Dyer's class all week. Teaching went great! The kids Love me. They were all upset when I told them I wouldn't be there tomorrow, Mr. Braun, HS World Geography got to me first (three weeks ago.) But they were thrilled when I told them I would ( Read more... )