They've all hit 12th grade. They've suddenly dug in their heels and are no longer malleable 11th graders.
It means a different approach -- I have to sell them on what I'm teaching the way I would a college freshman -- but they grow up so abruptly. It's hard to switch gears.
Dear lord, teenagers and writing. I had to get about 60 students into doing a decent 12 minute presentation, tried to get them to write down questions before starting research, sheets to list topic, sub topics, answered and unanswered questions...
You can imagine the level of success with that. Ah well. Same principle as heart transplantation: just because the success rate is below 50% doesn't mean you should stop trying.
Your boss shrieks at me? That's dreadful. I only had that once with a fellow teacher and it was really bad enough. The boss(pl) I had so far would never have done something so unprofessional.
OMG, I have such a love/hate relationship with college application essays. I love reading them-- there are plenty of books of them, and you can enjoy them like any other personal essay. It's such a shame that the genre is given such short shrift in America. But boy are they a pain to write! Just because they should be less than 2 pages doesn't mean you can do them in less than 2 hours! Plus, when I had to write my application essays, I always felt so baffled, because I felt like the colleges were asking me to prove that I was already a fabulous and productive member of society, and I was trying to get into college so that I could become a fabulous and productive member of society. (Of course now I'm struggling over the JET essay too.) Anyway, you rock for trying to teach them.
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Teenagers make me wonder how we live on a species. I know I used to be one but I can't have been that...that...words fail me.
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It means a different approach -- I have to sell them on what I'm teaching the way I would a college freshman -- but they grow up so abruptly. It's hard to switch gears.
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You can imagine the level of success with that. Ah well. Same principle as heart transplantation: just because the success rate is below 50% doesn't mean you should stop trying.
Your boss shrieks at me? That's dreadful. I only had that once with a fellow teacher and it was really bad enough. The boss(pl) I had so far would never have done something so unprofessional.
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What do you need to know?
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