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An old couple just came so I followed them in and offered to carry their groceries :)
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- Dec 27, 2010
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Everyone watch ESPNU tonight at 8 EST you might catch a glimpse of me or @ilikebigbows ;) (if you'll be cheering at this game, it's kind of weird since its a Wednesday night)
- Apr 28, 2013
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I'm starting my new job tomorrow afternoon ! I'll be teaching math to a group of high school age students who have dropped out of school at some point and are now trying to catch up.
I've spent the entire day alternating between :
- panicking because of how "unprepared" I am (which is pretty stupid because I've done loads of stuff and I don't even have a curriculum to follow, I'm free to do whatever I feel appropriate to prepare them for their future studies)
- rolling my eyes at the ridiculous amount of stuff that I have prepared and most likely will not use, because every time I panick, I come up something new "just in case"... I've practically got a plan H now :rolleyes:.
Okay, I'm exaggerating a bit about the panicking (just couldn't find a better word). I mean I'm not hyperventilating or anything, I just get paranoid every now and then with a loooong list of what ifs. I'm mostly very, very excited to start working again, but I don't know who my students are, what the classroom will be like or anything (I've had my interview with someone I used to work with and we met at another school, so I've never even seen my new workplace). I'll probably be more relaxed once I actually know where I work and who I work with.
But just in case, are there any teachers here with some last minute tips ?
I've spent the entire day alternating between :
- panicking because of how "unprepared" I am (which is pretty stupid because I've done loads of stuff and I don't even have a curriculum to follow, I'm free to do whatever I feel appropriate to prepare them for their future studies)
- rolling my eyes at the ridiculous amount of stuff that I have prepared and most likely will not use, because every time I panick, I come up something new "just in case"... I've practically got a plan H now :rolleyes:.
Okay, I'm exaggerating a bit about the panicking (just couldn't find a better word). I mean I'm not hyperventilating or anything, I just get paranoid every now and then with a loooong list of what ifs. I'm mostly very, very excited to start working again, but I don't know who my students are, what the classroom will be like or anything (I've had my interview with someone I used to work with and we met at another school, so I've never even seen my new workplace). I'll probably be more relaxed once I actually know where I work and who I work with.
But just in case, are there any teachers here with some last minute tips ?
- Dec 14, 2009
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I'm not a teacher, but I'm a strategic over-planner. My best advice: take everything you have in mind and chuck it out the window.
Figuratively.
You're right, you have no idea, and from here til whenever you have no idea. Short of preparing for an earthquake, there's not much you can do. When I get nervous I 'spaghetti sling'- I try to come up with all sorts of little things and plan for all sorts of tiny eventualities. In the end, it comes down to this: What are you 3 largest, most likely scenarios. Plan for those 3 things. Be done with it. Launch at 80%- you'll never be perfect and you'll drive yourself spare trying to cover everything. Good enough is ok. Meditate, take a walk, do something completely non-related that will require all your concentration. It'll help keep you from losing it.
- Apr 28, 2013
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I should have asked for advice this morning, it would have saved me a LOT of time :D. Part of the problem is also that I have no clue what it takes to fill up a two hour lesson. I've never even planned a lesson before (I used to be an assistant teacher, kind of), so until I actually experience it and meet my audience, I'm stuck guessing. I've always been hopeless at determining what constitutes "good enough" and what doesn't. Although I have a lot of experience improvising in front of students, usually in math, so in this case, I really shouldn't have been worrying the first place. But of course, it would have been too easy to figure that out before freaking out :rolleyes:.
Anyway, I am now following your advice, and I've packed my bag and I'm definitely not opening it again until it's time to leave tomorrow (just in case I forgot something... I know, I'm incorrigible...).
- Mar 21, 2010
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We don't travel unfortunately :(:(:( I'll be watching though!! Good luck tonight!! <3
- May 7, 2012
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@Just-a-Mom The Stinking Rose?
- Jan 5, 2011
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Yep! I don't know if they invented the recipe, but they act like they did lol. I love that place. Except their nasty garlic ice cream - I'll probably never forgive them for that.
- Jun 20, 2012
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After two snow days in a row going back to class tomorrow is going to be awful...
- Jun 29, 2014
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That's exactly what I said earlier! When I emailed one of the blogs I was told "no one thinks i'm from the gym" and "sorry you're offended that my blog is so popular". But sadly there is nothing gym owners can do. They simply don't have the time to spend tracking down cheer tumblrs that have to do with their name and arguing with them. And if they do find them I don't think there is anything that can actually make them take it down. If they were in the program and had to follow our social media policy, yes they would be forced to delete it. As an outsider, they have no agreement with the gym.
- Jan 16, 2014
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Kim Kardashian needs Jesus.
I'm not even Christian, just sick and tired of her desperate attempts to get attention. Thank goodness she is NOT my mother.
I'm not even Christian, just sick and tired of her desperate attempts to get attention. Thank goodness she is NOT my mother.
- Apr 30, 2013
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They photoshopped my butt on to Kim. ;)
- Mar 6, 2011
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Oh yeah, well it was my waist.
- May 5, 2010
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I'm all for someone e-mailing the gym describing what's going on. E. Pascale would shut that down REAL quick.. BYE WCSS TUMBLR.
- Oct 14, 2012
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id love to hear how she is going to describe her career to her child when they get older..... the only thing she's famous for is taking her clothes off.
