but to a 22 year old student most of these ideas are stupid --
because you have not experienced the appropriate EXPLORATION LESSONS
that allow for meaningful CONCEPT INTRODUCTION.
A teacher's task is to put students into confusion -- cognitive and affective disequilibrium - because the only road out of confusion is -- thinking. See related concepts dealing with Discrepant Events. The "egg in the bottle" is a cognitive discrepant event -- and my saying all teachers should teach 800 miles from their home town -- is an affective discrepant event. It goes against everything you've "bought" at the perceptual psychology store of life. Confusion.
Save these for 15 years -- read them again -- they'll make much, much more sense -- because you'll have the Exploration Lessons that go with them.
Really. :-)
21,915 days (you're alive)
there is not such thing as stress ...
i've never had
bad day
ignorant = you don't know; stupid is you don't wanna know
give yourself 2,000 days
a choice: go thru life ---
(a) brain on (b) brain off
could'da
when teachers tell students everything they gotta do . . .
they only do what they gotta -- ( and that's why i hate behavioral objectives )
life ain't no
dress rehearsal
tapes can be erased
the science teaching paradox you don't need to know much science to teach it
but . . .
the more you do know . . the better you teach
don't cha just wanna know ?
your mother is going to die.
reasons, reasons reasons -- when do you uses excuses -- and when do you use reasons ?
the reasons why all humans get married.
wha'cha doing at 4 am ? ( see - you do have the 'time' to do the assignment -- you just don't have the passion )
You only have time for the things you wanna do.
can the earth afford any more children ?
a choice: live your life or -- live your life conservatively
abolish mother's day
before you can burn out ... you must be on fire --- most teachers rust out
think big -- keep your options open
every time you choose you lose
leyden's law of human interaction
Thus -- introducing these "adult concepts" before the age of 37 is futile
- - but fun.
what'cha doing at 4 a.m. ?
what'cha going to do for ...
21,000
900
l5 days ?
-4,400 days (that you'll teach)
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l7,915 days
( the school is locked ) what'cha going
if you live 60 years and teach 25 years, 6.6% of the remaining hours of your life will be spend in an elementary school. What are you going to do in the 93.4% of your life when you don't "teach ?"
do you ever get tired
of being
ignorant?
you've got to make
your own funshine -
no one will ever make you
happy in life -- that's your
responsibility
ignorant stupid
did you volunteer ?
then stop whining !
(p.s.) "i hate when people whine because they're not happy at every given moment.
You want to be happy ? Go earn it." ( J. Leno )
would'da
should'da
if you are bored -- it's because -- you are stupid
your father is going to die.
you'd better studying
hang around smart people ---- Rule #1 in Life
excuses -- excuses --
excuses
are you in love ? -- in scared ? -- in flight ? -- in hormone ? -- in program ?
i have never done anything i didn't want to do
(50.00001% of me wanted to do it and 49.99999% of me didn't. So-o-o-o, i did it.
"but i just didn't have the time . . ."
"Ma-dear -- you HAD the time -- you didn't have the passion."
dump two non-smart people from yourfriends list --- add two smart people
"we seal our fate with the choices we make ( gloria estafan )
all my friends from high school who work at wal-mart don't have to do tests,
papers, oral reports ...
(p.s. - see: "did you volunteer ?")
teacher --- thread --- lisle --- string --- cord --- twine ---
R.O.P.E. -- resident of the planet earth
( life is an evolution )
when you leave your bedroom you have to begin giving up "your rights" The hardest thing for people to admit.
education is the only product and process where the consumer demands to be cheated.
"do we have to do this assignment?" answer: "no - you can be stupid, i don't care."
i'll have my
doctorate in
science education by june l99-
a bad day is when you die
all the rest
are
glowingly & growingly neat
teaching science 30 minutes a day x 3 days / wk x 25 years = 00.003% of your life
take notes only if you want to be more intelligent
when grades are given as a reward for learning then learning will stop at graduation 'cuz there are no 'points' / stickers in real life