I am sads a bit as I continue on this new career pursuit. I LOVE teaching. I mean like I struggle to see myself in any other arena doing the things I do. When I dream, it is about teaching students and making an impact that deviates a course all the way into the future. An uninspired course becomes a course of constant wonder. A destructive ( Read more... )

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First, happy birthday to hlynn! May a beautiful, blonde elf fulfill your every wish...even if it is just to change the tele station ( Read more... )

My science bug bit me early on with all the scifi and fantasy novels I could devour, PBS and Mr. Wizard. Though Bill Nye is the modern "Mr. Wizard", I grew up on the original. How he changed my life! I seriously questioned things and try to anticipate/predict what would happen when Mr. Wizard did an experiment. I think I remember torturing my ( Read more... )

Math is vital. I have the wonderful example in class as to why it is such a dire need ( Read more... )

So I have spent this week plugging away at Chemistry in preparation for AP Chemistry this year. I hopefully will have enough students to teach the class. Here's hoping but either way, I am enjoying solving problems and *thinking* chemistry again. Not the bits and pieces, surface and extremeties but the deeper stuff. Things that make you design ( Read more... )