You arrive promptly to your lessons
You bring all your correct equipment
You do all your homework
Your uniform is correct
You are polite
You are willing to learn
You put your hand up when you want to ask a question
You behave well
You ask intelligent questions
You encourage others to learn
You believe the subject is valuable to your future understanding of the [...]
A year 10 came to my after school lesson, took one look at me and said “bad day?” Very perceptive as I was simply sitting at my desk at the time, my face must have told a story.
I have a class of nutters, they were nutters last year when I taught them, and clearly the [...]
I was reading Neil’s blog when I came across this sentence:
“I’m sure doing a PhD is supposed to be really hard work, but I keep being amazed at how (so far) not hard work it is.“
How peculiar, I thought to myself, I didn’t know Neil was doing a PhD. After a moment of confusion, [...]
Me – Hello Concerned Parent (CP) Mad Teacher (MT) here, you left a message for me about your sons exercise book
CP – Hello MT, yes indeed, you see, I am sure he never had an exercise book – well I haven’t seen it.
Me – The whole class had new books in the first lesson and [...]
Shocking isn’t it? Teachers today just don’t make the effort, of course, when he failed to bring it in on the right day, or bring it in yesterday for marking I should have gone to his house and collected it myself.
No I haven’t marked your book, you didn’t hand it in.
Don’t tell anyone but there is a Secret Nuclear Bunker not that far from here. Well, we found our way in on Saturday and wandered around the three underground floors, all at a constant temperature of 60f because that is what happens when you build like that underground – apparently. It was really quite chilling [...]
It was tipping down this morning when I left for work, as a consequence I decided I should wear shoes rather than flip-floppy type things. By 9.15 I was in agony, sitting in my classroom dreading having to leave, because that would mean I would have to put those awful shoes on. My class second [...]
I can’t believe I have been back less than two weeks – it feels forever. It’s not that anyone has been particularly disruptive (apart from a year 11 class that would need a miracle to be anything else) but I am just so tired, there is so much to do and I feel I am [...]
Someone I know has put her 5 year old son onto a rewards chart, he gets a tick or cross for mealtimes, general behaviour and… using a clever word or asking a clever question (if he uses words like ‘poo’ or ’stupid’ that is a cross). At the end of the week if he has [...]
I’m sure I have created plenty of lists like this in the past, this is my current one, but I reserve the right to change and add to this list at any time. I have visited some of these cities before but want to go back!
Rome
Verona
Bruges
Paris
Prague
Venice
Berlin
San Francisco
St Petersburg
New York
All in no particular order.