-”Now I’ll take attendance in the order in which I don’t like you”
-Made us say ‘may I use the potty?’ in a British accent when we need to use the washroom
-”Good morning, how’s my favourite class doing-they just left you would’ve passed them in the hallway”
-Had names for all of the variables: a is for apple pie, b is for brownie, c is for cookie, and D IS FOR DOUGHNUT
-”This is beautiful. Just like if you were in front of a mirror-with me standing in front of you”
-He spent like 10 minutes making sure we understood the difference between cannoli and cannelloni
– “You should join the geek protection squad, we would beat up kids like you”
-On the first day of class he drew an x in the corner of the whiteboard with a box around it and it???? somehow stayed there???? all year?????
-”you should all take French just in case you meet a pretty French lady on a plane like I did”
-We had this closet in the corner of the room, and then it just became a thing to talk about the body in the closet (especially when people not in the class would come in)
-Answered the phone in one of two ways “greetings human” or “Pizza Pizza”
-While we’re talking about phones if someone was being looked for he’d tell them that they were out in the smoking area handing out anti-smoking pamphlets
-”You guys are so loud! People would think you’re Italian or something”
-Once turned the lights on using ‘the force’, a.k.a a lightsaber he kept on his desk, and a student standing under the light switch
-”BIG LIKE HOUSE”
-He told us this story about how a few years ago if a kid was particularly annoying/disruptive he’d send them to a certain teacher to ask for a ‘long stand’ that teacher would take a loooong time looking for this item before sending the kid along to the next teacher (I think there were 4?) anyway, once the kid would get back and be like ‘there is no long stand’ he’d say ‘well weren’t you standing for a long time?’
-There was a girl who had a broken arm, who got moved out of the class when her schedule got rearranged. During attendance he’d call ‘broken arm girl’ first, and she would come into the room before we got there to write stuff like ‘broken arm girl was here’ on the board
-The day before christmas break we just talked about star wars the whole class
-called us all sunshine and when one girl asked why he called her stormy clouds for the rest of the year
-If someone came to borrow something, before he’d give it to them he’d ask if they would like to know where they could get one, and then the whole class would all be like ‘staples’ ‘best buy’ ‘dollar store’ etc
Teaching goals
-We had this closet in the corner of the room, and then it just became a thing to talk about the body in the closet (especially when people not in the class would come in)
good to know this is a universal thing with teachers and closets
good to know this is a universal thing with teachers and closets
^Haiku^bot^8. I detect haikus with 5-7-5 format. Sometimes I make mistakes.
I’ve just read an article containing studying advice from university professors and man, it is bizarre, borderline delusional. One of the advice there was ‘for every hour you spend in class you should spend two more hours studying at home’. And yes okay I don’t spend that much time in university, maybe 4-5 hours a day on average, but still… if I double that and add that to time spent in class I get to at least 12 hours which is more than most people work a day at paying jobs.
And some say you should study on your own three hours a week for every ECTS points you have and man… that is just physically impossible. My semester includes 30 ECTS points which, if you follow this advice, amounts to 13 hours of studying at home per day. 13 hours every single day including weekends and holidays. I’m sorry but what the fuck. Even a 100% healthy, abled, neurotypical student who does nothing but study (so no job, no housework, no everyday commutes to school, etc) would not be able to do that!
I mean, even if you add up all of the ECTS hours (which actually do include studying at home as well as lectures and classes) you get to around 8 hours of studying every day including weekends and holidays which is hard to balance with taking care of yourself and having some sort of life. To put that in perspective, 8 hours a day equals 56 hours a week, while a typical work week is considered to include 40 hours (with 38 hours a week average for US). See the contrast?
Hell knows if this is how it is supposed to be or how it has always been but tbh I’m starting to sympathize with our neurophysiology professor who allows and even encourages napping during his (or other) lectures. Like… we are people. We should be able to have a life.
class syllabus: students with diverse learning needs are welcome in this course (2 paragraphs about how the prof incorporates thoroughly debunked theories on auditory/visual/kinesthetic learning styles) (0 paragraphs about what accommodations are available for mentally and physically disabled students)
It’s around that time of year when kids start getting letters of being waitlisted, rejection and deferment. Just wanted to say hang in there– not everyone’s collegiate path is a strict linear progression. Taking gap years, transferring, going to your ‘B’or ‘C’ school, etc– they’re all completely valid ways to self-discovery and getting to where you want to be. From my own experience, things have a way of working out in the weirdest ways. Just keep your head up & mind open and don’t give up.
i’m two years into university and nothing could have prepared me for being in a class and seeing this as if this is something i must be taught and that i, a person of almost two decades, might not know, in a biology course, that
If you require kids to go to school by law, they shouldn’t have to pay for anything at all to be able to go there. They shouldn’t need to pay for food, books, a laptop, anything that the school gives you. If a child has to pay in any way to attend school, it’s a failure of our government to provide proper funding
This also includes transportation to and from school.
This should also include accessibility, aids and assistance for disabled children!
The worst part: You just know some deeply unpleasant person is reading this and concluding that the solution is to stop requiring kids go to school.
ifesbob 