tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5113479300897983388.post1842143112210309417..comments2024-01-06T06:09:29.140-05:00Comments on An Urban Teacher's Education: ¡I Need Sacapuntation!james boutinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625944306253098621noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5113479300897983388.post-37071880049443066102011-03-05T12:58:46.984-05:002011-03-05T12:58:46.984-05:00This lack of personal responsibility doesn't e...This lack of personal responsibility doesn't end in the lower grades.<br />In her fifties, my mom is still taking community college courses for her AA, because she sacrificed her youth for me. She told me a hilarious story of a younger student asking her for a pencil at the start of a test in a remedial math test. My mom, of course, refused to bail out that slacker.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5113479300897983388.post-43777093559444710662011-02-19T21:47:18.122-05:002011-02-19T21:47:18.122-05:00Agreed...if only I could remember to do that every...Agreed...if only I could remember to do that every day and not lose them between handing them out to students and changing classes...;)james boutinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09625944306253098621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5113479300897983388.post-32948624126833763652011-02-19T21:33:52.777-05:002011-02-19T21:33:52.777-05:00I get my school to buy boxes of golf pencils. The ...I get my school to buy boxes of golf pencils. The kids hate them. I give them out.<br /><br />I also get the school to buy those little metal sharpeners. A gross lasted two years. I didn't sweat losing them. The kids take them by accident; they don't steal them. <br /><br />Plus I try to toss a sharpener in my pocket each morning. It avoids the nuisance you describe.<br /><br />JonathanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5113479300897983388.post-52941143701590806662011-02-01T21:12:35.638-05:002011-02-01T21:12:35.638-05:00I know, right? It seems like such a simple solutio...I know, right? It seems like such a simple solution. But it's not.<br /><br />At my school, teachers change classrooms almost every period. You can't leave pencils in the classrooms because they're pretty much gone by the end of the day, and the ones that are still in the room are broken and on the floor, which is a hassle to clean up. I can carry pencils from room to room with me, but in the hassle of trying to get to one class to another in only three minutes, I often forget to take all my supplies, and the pencils I did hand out are also usually gone by the end of the day. Additionally, in order to get pencils, I either have to get them from the supply room, which entails finding the secretary and filling out a supply request form (big hassle) or picking them up from Staples on my way to work (another big hassle). When I weigh all of the costs and stresses that come with other solutions, I usually find that the current state of affairs is about as good as it gets. <br /><br />Things would be a lot better if we had our own rooms and materials were stolen less often.james boutinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09625944306253098621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5113479300897983388.post-11596792429110227352011-02-01T21:05:30.106-05:002011-02-01T21:05:30.106-05:00Have you considered having a box of golf pencils a...Have you considered having a box of golf pencils available to loan out? They're terrible to write with, so students will hate using them (and thus be incentivized to have their own pencils available) but the pencils work, so students don't need to leave the class. <br /><br />Also, golf pencils are cheap and easy to notice, meaning it's more likely that you'll remember to get them back when you're dismissing the class.debrychttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00015864738818554557noreply@blogger.com