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Here is another cool one from christmas time that I never put up (it´s a phone add)
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
My Chemistry Teacher has a Soul :)
It´s valentines day, and I have to go get ready to go to Loro Parque (like sea world, actually from the makers of sea world, and with the largest penguin thing in the world :D) but I have a few things to share with you all first :).
So my class at school is one of the worst behaved groups in the history of the universe. And my chemistry teacher yells and is very nervous nearly always (I didnt´realize the two were related though!). Yesterday (prompted by a staff meeting for primer de bach B, my group) she decided that we weren´t goin to have class, instead we were going to talk about what goes on in class, and how to make it better. She explained that she is putting in as much as she possibly can, and it isn´t working, and it makes her very sad to see so many kids failing, because her goal as a teacher is to have as many kids as possible understand and pass the course. She explained that she´s been going slower than the department says because thats what our class needed. And while she was CALMY explaining all of this and we were having a discussion abotu what to do everyone was CALM, and LISTENED. Gasp right? No, not so much of a gasp, in Lengua class (spanish lit) everyone is like that, and the same in philosophy most of the time. I think the teachers atitude when they walk into the class is really what determines how a class will go more than whatever things they do to try to control the class (niether lengua nor philosophy teachers have to do anything to control the class, its just their presence in a calm, we´re goin to learn now and thats it way that does it.)
From this I think anyone who is sometimes in a leadership position can learn (and we all are at some point!). The people your leading will follow your example, so therefore, no matter what is happening being calm and collected is the most imoprtant thing to do.
On a lighter note, I found a very good sign that my spanish is improving. People now tease me when I say something wrong. Yes, that seems like a bad thing, but then you think about it. In order to be teased for saying something wrong, that has to mean that the majority of the things out of my mouth are CORRECT :), and that it suprises them when I say something funny to their ears. Yahoooooo :). I still have some issue with the whole where to put articles, using mi or yo, speaking in the past tense (there are SOOO MANY to choose from :O), and the whole making whatever your talking about thats feminine have the feminine adjective, but thats OK, progress is progress :).
Lots of Love for Valentines Day to all you back in O-Town (and those in other places reading my blog :) ),
Molly
So my class at school is one of the worst behaved groups in the history of the universe. And my chemistry teacher yells and is very nervous nearly always (I didnt´realize the two were related though!). Yesterday (prompted by a staff meeting for primer de bach B, my group) she decided that we weren´t goin to have class, instead we were going to talk about what goes on in class, and how to make it better. She explained that she is putting in as much as she possibly can, and it isn´t working, and it makes her very sad to see so many kids failing, because her goal as a teacher is to have as many kids as possible understand and pass the course. She explained that she´s been going slower than the department says because thats what our class needed. And while she was CALMY explaining all of this and we were having a discussion abotu what to do everyone was CALM, and LISTENED. Gasp right? No, not so much of a gasp, in Lengua class (spanish lit) everyone is like that, and the same in philosophy most of the time. I think the teachers atitude when they walk into the class is really what determines how a class will go more than whatever things they do to try to control the class (niether lengua nor philosophy teachers have to do anything to control the class, its just their presence in a calm, we´re goin to learn now and thats it way that does it.)
From this I think anyone who is sometimes in a leadership position can learn (and we all are at some point!). The people your leading will follow your example, so therefore, no matter what is happening being calm and collected is the most imoprtant thing to do.
On a lighter note, I found a very good sign that my spanish is improving. People now tease me when I say something wrong. Yes, that seems like a bad thing, but then you think about it. In order to be teased for saying something wrong, that has to mean that the majority of the things out of my mouth are CORRECT :), and that it suprises them when I say something funny to their ears. Yahoooooo :). I still have some issue with the whole where to put articles, using mi or yo, speaking in the past tense (there are SOOO MANY to choose from :O), and the whole making whatever your talking about thats feminine have the feminine adjective, but thats OK, progress is progress :).
Lots of Love for Valentines Day to all you back in O-Town (and those in other places reading my blog :) ),
Molly
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