You know what’s not a good way to start the day? Getting into the shower and discovering that there’s a daddy longlegs in there with you.
(Also, seriously? Daddy longlegs? I don’t think I’ve seen one of those in California before. Aren’t they a Northeast bug? The summer camp I went to in New Hampshire was [...]
I read a book recently where one of the characters kept having a very specific kind of premonition. Every once in a while, he would do something, and then suddenly know that he would never do that thing again. “This is the last time I will ever pet a dog,” that kind of [...]
Posted in academic, personal | 9 Comments »>On a much lighter note: our TiVo picked up ET recently, and I watched it last night.
You know, I’m trying to remember the last time I saw ET. It may have been in Spanish class (and thus in Spanish) in tenth grade. ET is one of those movies that I always felt like [...]
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Posted in personal, science fiction | 2 Comments »>I mentioned in the previous post that, before I started teaching for the first time, I asked some colleagues for advice about how to establish myself as an authority in the classroom. At that point, before I’d ever walked into a classroom as an instructor, I phrased the problem in terms of “controlling” the room. [...]
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Posted in academic | 1 Comment »>I’ve been trying for a few days to put together my thoughts on the extremely complicated issue of classroom authority; in the end, I’m breaking it into a couple of parts, to make it more manageable. Part One is a story, because telling stories is one of my favorite ways to make sense
At the [...]
Tags: authority, gender, teaching
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