Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Things That Never Happened When I Began Teaching School Years Ago

1)  "Ms. Shafer, can I just take a picture of the assignment instructions?  I don't want to write all that down."
2) Instead of carrying a compact mirror or using the restroom mirror, girls pull out their phones and use the selfie function on the camera to check their make up.

3 comments:

  1. Yup. I actually thought it a good idea when kids took photos of the notes on the whiteboard because they hadn't finished them - I did it too sometimes when we hadn't finished the topic, or when the stuff on the wb was all of their great feedback during discussions.

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  2. :) I thought my TA was videoing me this morning. Turns out he was just checking his hair for the Wrestling group photo for the yearbook.

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  3. We didn't have calculators, let alone phones. If I recall, there were only four phones in the whole school.

    We had to write quickly, which didn't always mean carefully.

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