A very short span of time has taken me across a very large range of emotional ground. Tuesday afternoon, after more sessions, I was feeling hot, itchy, irritable, and worried: that I wouldn’t find a house, that my placement might somehow get changed (the TFA Deltan rumor mill is quite active), that I wouldn’t be…

That would be the fire alarm that is going off right now (and by that, I mean when I wrote this on 7/12/09) at the Delta State Dorms. Yes, I should be outside, and was, but it’s pretty clear that nothing is actually on fire, so I returned. It’s been a rough day. The drive…

The summer of teaching ended on an anti-climatic note: my student didn’t show up for his last day of class. I gave my lesson, but to a group of fellow CMs. As much of a letdown as it was, it was a really good experience, because they all did a great job of modeling student…

Seeing that a student has, in fact, come to school might not seem very exciting–but if what’s at stake is the student’s opportunity to prove what he’s learned (and my opportunity to see what I’ve actually taught)… I peeked in the door yesterday at 1:50 and there he was, head bent over the test. That…

The loneliest number? Also the number of students I currently have. This poor kid. Sometimes, he is vastly outnumbered by observers (my faculty advisor is almost always in the room, and I usually have at least one other person drop in and observe me. For those not in the know, corps members are required to…

(This post took far too long to get posted.) -My kids, for many things, among them getting, today, every single last one of them, 100% on their quizzes. Both quizzes, today’s and the one from yesterday that I didn’t have time to give yesterday. By the way, their class average on the diagnostic test was…

Don’t mind this. Just trying to get this to post.