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Monday, August 22, 2011
Aug. 22nd, 2011 11:00 pmI went up to Local College today to pick up my books (yay, Gilgamesh) and to scoop out my classroom as I usually like to do before the semester starts.
And this year it is not a pretty picture. The school is renovation the main hall with lots of nice classrooms with desks and technology and they relocated us to really crappy buildings. Tiny classroom with no technology – converted office really that barely fits 30 desks. I emailed the secretary and there will be a whiteboard, hopefully, and some sort of technology. That classroom is just no conducive to a really good atmosphere.
I also picked up evals from last semester – 2nd section much more positive than the 1st one just as I felt while teaching. Classic comment – a college student too – “Why do we have to do the reading that we are not going to be tested on?” I think I have different ideas about the purpose and value of education.
Mama made peach jam from all the peaches they picked up on a farm on Sunday. Very sweet but tasty.
And this year it is not a pretty picture. The school is renovation the main hall with lots of nice classrooms with desks and technology and they relocated us to really crappy buildings. Tiny classroom with no technology – converted office really that barely fits 30 desks. I emailed the secretary and there will be a whiteboard, hopefully, and some sort of technology. That classroom is just no conducive to a really good atmosphere.
I also picked up evals from last semester – 2nd section much more positive than the 1st one just as I felt while teaching. Classic comment – a college student too – “Why do we have to do the reading that we are not going to be tested on?” I think I have different ideas about the purpose and value of education.
Mama made peach jam from all the peaches they picked up on a farm on Sunday. Very sweet but tasty.