Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Ok, by this same token, the teacher I mentioned before, had us "study" (re: watch a movie) the film "Edward Scissorhands", and to take note of as many references and symbols as we could.

There were approximately 78 general references, 49 specified references (Delilah comes to mind), and something like 200+ symbols throughout the entire movie. This teacher picked up only on the narratives to references she found (out of the entire movie, were about 20), and every time she paused the movie, I had to point out additional information she had glossed over, ignored, or happened to be completely ignorant of.

This happened at the beginning of the school year, and for the remainder of it, I was apparently a very "deep thinker". So I told her "It's not deep to say the first thing that comes to mind - it just proves how shallow you are when you sit there with a blank expression for not catching something a student saw"

idk never checked

Okay, that one I can actually relate to. I don't have all day every day to sit there and pore over every last thing I have to present to my class. Maybe in a few years when I have the same curriculum over and over, sure. But especially as a first year teacher, I'm noticing that what I'll do is go online to see if anyone has created a lesson on what I want to teach, tweak it for my particular class, then shove it out the door.

They better watch out, if Nintendo sniffs this one out, that could be a huge lawsuit for too many similarities and creating something from a copyright and trademark....

Okay, Josi. Sometimes I don't know what the hell you're talking about, but this time... that one takes the cake. Explain your gif choice, sir. What does lady Abu have to do with raisins?

And I get that, I really do. However, this wasn't a new curriculum project, and she's been going over this movie with multiple classrooms for a number of years already. She was generally slow on the uptake on quite literally... everything. Constantly marked the correct words wrong, and so forth. Words she had a responsibility to teach us. So, I ended up teaching half the class, since we were separated between "the slow kids" and the "intelligent kids". I must have pissed her off one day, because she stuck me with the slow kids. Although their grades improved quite a lot when they had someone giving them actual educational attention.

Who released your seal?

Washu broke his seal.

Oooohhhhhh... I guess I need to see Alad-

NOPE BIG LEBOWSKI FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!

That might have been a tactic to get the slow kids to shut up in class. It's also a technique we call "zone of proximal development". In other words, you did exactly what you were put there for. By being around them, somehow they got better. Some may say cheating, but really it's all about influence. No one wants to get shown up. They see how well you're doing and they're going to want to do better just to show that they're not inferior. There's a whole meta-cognitive study on this stuff.

Hi Sonic !

also: giggity.

They weren't actually slow though. The teacher was just horrible. I'm aware of proximal development as well, and it's a standard that doesn't mesh well when teachers aren't doing their jobs. I mean, there were a couple of other students in that class with higher grades than I had.

Some of the "slow" designated kids were quite bright in creative ways. One guy ended up making a career of restoring old cars (dropped out of school that year) and the others were absolute math and computer wizards. It doesn't help when the curriculum information is presented in such a poor interpretation by the person teaching the class. It was even pointed out by the administration board after being given a review halfway through the year.

I've been spoiled by a few professors who teach similar to my method of learning close enough to where I absorb the information, or at least enough of it to pass the class easily with a A/B usually (one C on record with the one, but to be fair, I should have failed).

Unfortunately the rest of the courses I need until I transfer I won't learn anything from, as it's mundane general ed ***, and that's if I'm lucky enough to not have to finish the foreign language requirements.

I have like 7~ more classes after this semester, I need to sit down soon and plan out how I'm going to finish them off, as the one is a prereq to another, and another is only available in the fall, and another is as well (usually), so I'll have to plan carefully. I don't want to take anything but the one class in the fall at that time, so I can focus on it, as it's a time intensive course.

I want a hedgehog now

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The end is the best lol

game is actually inspired by Windwaker

Josi.

what does that club look like?