Monday, July 26, 2010

And we all fall down

Sky diving.
Way better than listening to someone talk about literacy in the classroom or new strategies to make students read. Though how many teachers would sign up to study free fall hands on?

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

I'm teaching what?!

Early teaching load
The teaching assignments that teachers get early on are really bizzare but sometimes you just take what you can get.

Monday, July 19, 2010

Practical Vectors

Paintball
Practical & fun, but anything gun related seems to be frowned upon in school.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

First Compressed Gas, then the World!

Compressibility of a gas
One of my grade 9 science students asked me this and she seemed quite worried someone might try it in the future.  Add another one to my plans of world domination.

Monday, July 12, 2010

Call in the big guns

If only your students could decide your employment.
A lot of students were upset I wouldn't be teaching Physics next year because of the layoffs, seniority issues and so on.  So they came up with some ingenius ways of persuading the superintendant to keep me on staff.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Teacher Smash!

Teacher Smash!
The students get even quieter if you throw a chair at one of them.

Monday, July 5, 2010

Down to the minute

Planning for a class
New teachers are taught to prepare lessons like this but after the first week (sometimes sooner) these kinds of lessons tend to get thrown out.  Though some supervisors would prefer all teachers teach this way and stick to it.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Addicted

Some teachers just need their fix before they do anything.
One of my professors mentioned to us that some teachers just need their fix before they do anything.