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Category Archives: Whining

How to NOT Teach

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Number One Teaching No-No: Students do not equal friends. I’ve learned this over the last year, and now I’ve taught a few new classes where I maintained enough distance between me and my students to be able to do my job and stay in control of the classroom. This was not the case for my […]

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torch and stress fit

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

The torch came through Nanjing today, practically right outside my school. The powers that be dictated that class would remain in session, which was a joke - I trotted down to my 10:00 to find four unhappy looking students in a class of twenty-five. Chris was out of class, though, and he got pictures, […]

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