Dual-Classing, or Why I Am Not Good At Casual Chats
Teaching Coworker: How long do you think my bowling activity should be? Two hours? Me: First, you need to define the game’s parameters. How many students are coming? Are you planning to reserve lanes?...
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My 9-year-old student, after telling me all the things she’s read about Christopher Columbus and native Americans: Miss Meg, did you learn that Columbus was a good guy or a bad guy? Me: When I was your...
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Star Meg
WorkBro made this and set it at the background on my classroom computer, and I almost died laughing.
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Apostrophe Catastrophe
While my coworker was away, giving a talk on teaching grammar to other ESL teachers, I edited all the comics she has over her desk to add minor grammar and usage errors. Sarah Andersen doesn’t really...
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Tales From The Garbage Fire
My newly-online, temporarily-online ESL classes have been an absolute garbage fire, for predictable and unpredictable reasons. (Spoiler: The absolute cheapest methods of going online may not be the...
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So I Read “The Bride Test” and Quit My Job
Last June, while I was teaching at the university, I read The Bride Test. This is a sweet romance full of misunderstandings and loads of chemistry. Khai’s mother is afraid her son will never get a...
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Sad Zoom Graduation
Zoon Graduation Background My year teaching of ESOL 3 at my new job, back in adult ed, ended today, with Sad Zoom Graduation. I was kind of dreading this morning because I’m so completely burned out on...
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At our Christmas party in 2019, my then-bosses gave Workbro and me a hard time about nothing. It made me feel really unappreciated at work, so I decided to start looking for a new job. So when I went...
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And Here’s The Copier Code
In 2007, I was the newest staff member at LCC, and I shared a classroom with a teacher who let me know that she’d had the room’s supply closet organized this way since 1999 and she had no intention of...
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Escape Room: Adult Ed
Escape Room Concept: The players work at an adult-ed program and need to print something in 1 hour before students arrive, but the toner, paper, and printer access code are stored in different...
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