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That will probably be deleted later
 Angelique DelaMort · Mon Apr 18, 2011 @ 07:41pm · 0 Comments |
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1.) Leave my lesson plans open and assume they'll figure it out. Yeah, I'm one of the smarter sub cookies out there and this makes me tear at my hair...
2.) Especially when you pull a number 1 without setting clearly labeled materials out to go along with your lesson plans. If I have to search around the room for the teacher's edition of a book when you want the kids to do problems out of it, we have a problem.
3.) By the way, all you math teachers, I don't care if you're teaching 4th grade, 8th grade, whatever, DO NOT assume that what you're teaching is so easy that you don't need to leave an answer key and/or a calculator in plain sight. If you want me to make sure your kids are at least getting the correct answers, I need these tools. And before you scoff, I'd just like to take a moment to point out that it was 10 years of incompetent math instructors that built up my insecurities about the subject. I'm pretty sure my brain didn't grow a new lobe when I turned 16 and started to understand your strange mathematical symbols. It also wasn't the effect of one teacher "spoon feeding me" since I pulled the same shiny grades in college with a completely incompetent professor (that means I had to teach myself, and I succeeded.)
4.) I also will not leave a test for a sub to administer in my absence. Especially not a high school test in a specialized area that the kids are already stressed out about.
5.) If I am boneheaded enough to leave a test I will make certain that my sub and my students have all materials to take and complete the test.
6.) PS - I will also make certain the test is in plain language that is easy to understand. If this is not the case I will be considerate and flexible in dealing with my students' concerns when I return.
7.) I also will not leave before threatening my students to behave for the sub.
8.) I will not neglect to leave seating charts...preferably seating charts with mug shots.
9.) And just in case my kids decide to try something cute I will be leaving a nice stack of detention slips and some instructions on how to use them, because I know they're pretty self explanatory but every school does things differently.
I will not pull any of this crap on my subs...ever...btw - Math teachers that leave me crappy sub notes have given me free reign to do whatever I want in their classrooms.
Angelique DelaMort · Sat Nov 21, 2009 @ 04:03am · 0 Comments |
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Really? You really think you're going to get away with this? Oh wait, you think you should get away with this. There's that sense of entitlement I'm running into everywhere...yeah, it's still annoying and completely wrong. Here's the deal, if you want something good out of life, it's going to take some effort. Oh yes, you have to Work, you have to Earn it. I don't care if it's a spot on the starting line, first chair, or that spot at the top of the class. Nothing comes free and everyone can not be the best. I know you've been told all your life that you're special and you're talented and anyone who says differently is just jealous but...that's not always the case. You should at least keep the option open that you are indeed flawed in some way. The shocking truth is most people are.
Now, back to this cheating thing - apparently just saying "It's bad, don't do it" isn't enough. You can go out of your way and explain, "Well little Jonny, if you cheat you don't learn nothing..." Yeah, that didn't work. How about "You keep doing it and you're going to get caught" - except when they do get caught they just say "i didn't know..." stare Do not tell me that cheating is okay because everyone does it. Do not tell me cheating is okay because you need every chance you can get to put yourself ahead of anyone else or that you didn't have enough time. No. Your excuses do not matter. You made a choice, a choice to steal material from someone else and claim it as your own. Fine - but deal with the consequences.
If you're a professional writer, that means losing your job, your credibility, and Pulitzer prizes picked up along the way. If you're a student be prepared to *at least* fail the assignment and keep in mind suspension or expulsion is always a possibility. And no matter who you are, keep in mind, there will come a day when either you run out of ways to convincingly cheat or...you just get caught.
For the record, Cheating is doing anything that gives you an unfair advantage and typically makes your internal moral compass twitch a little. Plagiarism is when you claim the work of other's (I'm generally concerned with Words being an English Major) as your own. This isn't just copying and pasting - even if you change the sentence a little or make it two sentences or change the order of the parts or still use the same unique and original ideas of others...No, no, no - you want to be free and clear? Put it in your own words. Synthesis it and factor it in to what you already know. Draw your own conclusions from the ideas and observations of others (giving proper credit of course). And if you have any questions or confusions, check with someone knowledgeable - run it by them and get their take on it.
And this...is why I should stop watching 48 Hours: Hard Evidence...
Angelique DelaMort · Fri Nov 20, 2009 @ 12:53am · 0 Comments |
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Happy Singles Awareness Day! |
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