it’s all for them

I’m totally immersed in my job. It’s all I ever think about and I can’t help that.

Sometimes I think about the “Information Revolution” passing by me while I’m teaching about the “Industrial Revolution” or earlier in the year the “Agricultural Revolution.”

But I’ve integrated technology into my lessons. I’m trying. But I’m not reaching some students at all. They just sit there carrying on like I’m not even trying to teach them anything.

A student asked me why I still get mad when they talk. He seemed nervous that I yelled threw a folder with student papers. He said all his classes yelled and the teachers only meekly ask them to stop yelling. Last year you may recall I would throw my gradebook (but now I’m totally electronic and I’m not gonna throw my laptop). They were so quiet and hurt after my histrionics. I just turned my back on them and read the NYTimes.com online for five minutes while they just sat there waiting.

“Go on. Have fun and talk and yell.”

One student, the guy talking to me after class, said with hurt in his voice, “But we want you to teach us.”

I couldn’t say no to that. So I had them write an essay on the competing economic theories that came out of the Industrial Revolution. Then we had an interesting discussion on how much a human life is worth and I told them about the guy who owns the Miami Heat.

So it’s all I ever think about for now. I might get my own room in the school because I impressed the principal with my vast knowledge of computers. I can turn them on.

M to the J

February 17, 2005

lol, when i was in school, i had a teacher once that would hurl her teacher’s edition geometry book across the room if we weren’t paying attention…a couple of the students freaked out on different occasions and the teacher was actually reprimanded for not being able to “control rage.” sometimes that’s what it takes to get their attention though…i always thought the teachers who (C)

would meekly ask for our attention were pussies, and we would almost always mock them, then ignore them. god, we were evil. no wonder our high school couldn’t keep teachers longer than a semester at a time.

The Wanderer

I impressed the principal with my vast knowledge of computers. I can turn them on. That’s about the extent of my computing skills as well. 😉 I had a chemistry teacher who would throw sponges at students who wouldn’t stop talking. He knocked a guy off his stool once.

Oh, and I’ve been reading your journal for a few months now and really enjoy it, though I don’t note much. :o)

EternalTraveler

In good ol Indian schools in good ol days, I had teachers who would lock us up in chemistry lab for an hour or so for playing what used to be called ‘book cricket’ right under the teacher’s nose… now there was this friend, who insisted on using the one hour in the chemistry lab again for playing book cricket…he would go ‘but what will teacher do anyway….’… we were morons i guess…. And(C)

There was a Sanskrit teacher who chucked a bunch of us out of the class room for not doing something… so we sat on the floor right outside the class and in a loud voice recited all the poems we were taught by her in the last class… and she came out asking what we were upto… we said, we just wanted to make use of the time… and she never chucked us out of the class… wierd kids, we were!!