My feet hurt
I had my first hit from Sullivan! Don't really know who or what it was, and it didn't look like they stayed on the blog very long, but it's still cool to get it. What are the odds it's a student?
Speaking of my students, I think as long as I keep my talkative class doing things they don't know and/or challenging most of them, they seem to be much more focused. Go figure. I do think I'll have to keep using the overhead with them. I don't trust turning my back to them to write on the board...plus, right now, my whiteboard is so dirty, I don't want to use it. Ever. Seriously, it's really gross. To the point that you can't even read a lot of stuff that's written on it. Anyone know a good way to clean a whiteboard? Is there an actual risk of doing bad things to a whiteboard if you use water or bad chemicals?
Oh yeah, and my feet hurt because I golfed today for the first time in a month and a half, and walked for the first time in many many months. Golf shoes aren't exactly the most comfortable, especially after standing for the previous seven hours.
Speaking of my students, I think as long as I keep my talkative class doing things they don't know and/or challenging most of them, they seem to be much more focused. Go figure. I do think I'll have to keep using the overhead with them. I don't trust turning my back to them to write on the board...plus, right now, my whiteboard is so dirty, I don't want to use it. Ever. Seriously, it's really gross. To the point that you can't even read a lot of stuff that's written on it. Anyone know a good way to clean a whiteboard? Is there an actual risk of doing bad things to a whiteboard if you use water or bad chemicals?
Oh yeah, and my feet hurt because I golfed today for the first time in a month and a half, and walked for the first time in many many months. Golf shoes aren't exactly the most comfortable, especially after standing for the previous seven hours.
posted by spocktongue at 8:03 PM
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There's a small whiteboard at church that the pastor and some teachers use every so often. But they leave the writing on that board until the next week ... and then it's dried on so that it can't be erased. So they use chemical cleaners to force the marker out of the board. Then the process is repeated ad infinitum.
Result: A whiteboard that has a big splotch of orange (from the red and orange markers used most often) in the middle of it. A whiteboard that can't be erased even immediately after something is written on it. :)
There is some chemical that is approved for whiteboards...but I can't rember what it is. My supervising teacher (from student teaching) was very careful to use only that. I think it was similar to Windex.
Ask your principal or your janitors?
I left the message "Please Wash Me" on the board last night, and low and behold it was washed when I came to school this morning. So, I'm thinking every Friday or so I will just ask that it get washed, and hopefully that will prevent things from getting too gross. God bless janitors!
lmao. Next I figure we'll have something like, "Damn Sullivan kids..." Just so ya know, keeping your "talkative" class with things they dont know, wont exactly work. It never has in the past. I've attended school with many of your students for years (since Kindergarten or so) and when they are confronted with something they dont know and they dont want to know, it just doesnt work out. It's sad.. You are the third teacher we have had that doesnt trust us enough to turn around... Willard, Shirr, and now you.. lmao. Shouldn't that tell Bauman something? Oh.. and the once-whiteboard... You forgot to say that the items that were written on it show up better after erased... They have solutions you can by at wal-mart.
Yeah, a dirty whiteboard is actually much easier to read when it's erased. But, I've bugged the higher-ups about it, so hopefully it won't be an issue much longer. Or maybe I'll just have to start giving extra credit to students who are willing to clean off my transparencies.
Actually, I am trusting my classes more and more lately. My loud classes have actually been really good, and I'm starting to enjoy them a lot. I still have to be a "stickler" at times, but that comes with the business.
And of course, now that Bauman's name has been mentioned, he'll probably come across my blog as well. Let's see how many of my underlings and overlings can we get reading this thing?
Ah yes... Sullivan has tried to get a student or two in trouble about things they have posted online... I know from past issues. And yes.. Stickler.. Amantha's favorite term for you.. that has been said in front of you.. And the only reasons as to why your classes have 'calmed' a bit, is because we are all sick, too.
Ya know, students haven't nearly treated you as bad as we have treated Bauman.. Lets just say his cell phone number has gone around the school.. once or twice.. Dont you feel special? For now anyway...
That *almost* sounds like a threat...so how do I keep up this "special" treatment I am getting? :)
Special treatment? I didnt say anything about special treatment. I just asked if you felt special. Since we know you live in Terre Haute, and we know your name, we can simply do a search here soon (yes, a search online) and come up with your address and telephone number. Unless you're careful that is... But, if you dont act like Hilter (Bauman) then you wont get treated like him.
I'll try not to be too Nazi-ish, then. :)
Most of your students act confussed because they are they need more help and u only really have 1 really talkative class and thats the one with littke miss rachel whos goal is to see if she can make you mad. Really if You are nice to all of us Sullivan kids we will be nice to you!!! thank you very much
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