It’s been a while, but for today, I’m extremely grateful I can keep calm and functional in an emergency.
It’s tough enough with adults sometimes, but with kids it’s critical. If you’re calm, they will be calm. If you lose it, they’ll lose it 10x worse.
In the end, everyone is OK, and that’s what matters.
Apparently, our students are still intent on hooking me up with my male coworkers. Yes, I’m friends with two of my colleagues who teach on the same floor and happen to be male. For the last two years now they’ve been asking if Mr. B and I are dating. We’ve both told them no. And now they ask Mr. N too. And when he also told them no, their next question was, “Are YOU dating Ms. S?” Never mind that Mr. N is married.
Maybe they just can’t fathom girls and guys just being friends. Hell, I know adults with that same issue.
This amuses me for multiple reasons. But mixed into this are about half a dozen girls who know my orientation. And apparently if their classmates are still trying to hook me up with those two, these girls haven’t outed me.
Interesting.
As part of my grad classes we watch a lot of videos of teaching techniques. Most of them take place in charter schools. A lot of them are “model” teachers that are former colleagues of the admins, but some of them are from former grad students. I know our class complained that we wanted to see more clips from district schools, since that’s where we all work. Well, it seems they’re listening.
How do I know? Because my science professor asked ME if she could use one of my videos from last year as an exemplar for the first year students for a particular technique.
Me.
Grad students are now watching a video of me to learn how to do a thing.
Well, damn.
Silver Tides 