Gotta love that new car smell...

2006 stratus SXT, 18k miles.

Is it "bad" that I've been up, showered, out, given a presentation of a research project, returned, gone to the bank, and arranged a job interview before my roommates are even awake?

And I fixed my old flash drive after nearly ripping apart the new one. Progress, I suppose...

How has student cheating evolved from the days of note cards stuffed up sleeves and whispers across the table? Where does teamwork end and cheating begin? What new tools and tricks are students using to beat the system, and is there an increase in the number of cheating incidents with the increased pressures put on students to succeed from a ( Read more... )

This whole "interning and not getting paid" bit blows.

High schoolers have great vocabularies, I just have to laugh.

Action Research: crawling
Colloquium: laughable
Curriculum Unit: non-existant
Philosophy Statement: practically finished (really)
Intern Observations: 2/5
Outside Observations: 1/5
Teacher Observations: 11/14

crazy.

I believe that much of present education fails because it neglects the fundamental principle of the school as a form of community life. It conceives the school as a place where certain information is to be given, where certain lessons are to be learned, or where certain habits are to be formed. The value of these is conceived as lying largely in ( Read more... )

Question Two: What is the definition of inclusion? What factors or qualities show what it is, and what it is not? What are some effects on students, schools, and communities of both a dual and a unified system of special education? Are there any instances in which inclusion is not appropriate? Are there any instances in which anything less than ( Read more... )

First Day ( Read more... )

Getting fingerprinted today was actually more of a hassle than you'd think. Firstly, there is a farmer's market going on in the City Hall parking lot, so there was absoultely nowhere to park even remotely close to the building. The waiting room is full of memorabilia which was fun to look at for about 30 seconds, then my eyes caught the giant red ( Read more... )

Two weeks from yesterday I will officially be a member of the teaching staff at Portsmouth High School. One week from tomorrow is new teacher orientation and I'll meet with Jon afterwards to plan out the first few days of school. Most of my first-semester work will focus on the physics end of my certification, so I'm more concerned with making sure ( Read more... )

I should have stayed to watch the Price is Right ( Read more... )